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Biofuels and Health Hazards: An Overview
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Author(s): Swapan Banerjee (Department of Nutrition, Seacom Skills University, India), Soumen Ghosh (Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India), Gourav Dhar Bhowmick (Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India), Digvijay Pandey (Department of Technical Education, IET, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India), Binay Kumar Pandey (Department of Information Technology, College of Technology, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India)and Pankaj Dadheech (Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management, and Gramothan, India)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 21
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Handbook of Research on Safe Disposal Methods of Municipal Solid Wastes for a Sustainable Environment
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Prateek Srivastava (Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, India), Durgaprasad Ramteke (Fibre and Particle Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, Finland), Ankush Kumar Bedyal (Department of Physics, School of Sciences, Cluster University of Jammu, India), Monika Gupta (Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, India)and Jasminder Kaur Sandhu (Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8117-2.ch023
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Abstract
Biofuels, such as coal and oil, have been the most suitable and sufficient substitutes for other conventional fuels in the energy sector for the last few years. For decades, entire populations have suffered from deforestation, global warming, and carbon monoxide issues. Biofuel production is an eco-friendly process that still has health hazards for manufacturing unit workers. That is due to flammable and combustible raw materials and their chemical reactions. Bioethanol is a flammable biofuel prepared by cellulose items and the fermentation of grains. Biodiesel is another combustible liquid-based biofuel produced by alcohol and glyceride in vegetable oil duly catalyzed by strong alkaline like caustic soda. Biofuel plants or trees are the biggest isoprene producers, which meet the ozone layer in the earth's atmosphere. While combining with ozone always causes many health hazards for manufacturing units' employees despite several safety measures. One of the significant consequences is that some factory workers often have asthma, allergy, and lung disorders due to ozone attacks.
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