Biofuels and Bioenergy

Nanotechnology in Biofuels

Enzymes are employed in the trans esterification process to make biodiesel from a variety of plant oils and algae. To enhance the number of cycles, enzymes are immobilised on glass beads, nanostructures, and other surfaces.When enzymes are immobilised in nanostructures, they have a longer halflife than when they are immobilised on ordinary substrates. Because of two factors, nanostructures are employed to immobilise enzymes. It greatly enhances the surface area available for immobilisation, resulting in nanostructures with a high enzyme loading capacity and Shows a considerable increase in the stability of the immobilisation enzyme.