A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SUGAR BEET FOR PRODUCTION OF BIOFUELS

Miriam Edith Pérez-Romero,Donaji Jiménez-Islas,Juan Manuel Rivera-Ríos,Martha Beatriz Flores-Romero

doi:10.32479/ijeep.11013

Abstract

The ongoing depletion of fossil resources, the energetic autonomy of countries, soaring prices for petroleum and climate change have stimulated research and development on renewable energy as biofuels. In this work, a bibliometric analysis of the Web of Science database was carried out to identify the research related to sugar beet to biofuels. The equation logistic was used to quantitatively describe the growth of the publication of sugar beet in the biofuels field. The results show that the publications of sugar beet for biofuel have a rate of growth of 0-1898 year -1 . Germany and the USA were the countries with high influence for research in the field of sugar beet for biofuels. The journal Zuckerindustrie was the referent to publications in the field of study. From 2003 to 2019, the exponential growth of publications was found, this profile of growth can be attributed to the development of renewable energy and the relevance of global warming, security energetic and laws that promoted clean energy. This work shows that the logistic equation can be used to predict the evolution of publications in the field of study. Keywords : Beta vulgaris, beets, root beets, biofuel, fodder beet JEL Classifications: Q16, Q20, Q42 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11013

Highlights

Fossil fuel based energy sources are being increasingly depleted (Madhania et al, 2019) and the demand for renewable energy is steadily increasing due to rapid population growth and economic development worldwide (Mujtaba et al, 2020)
The production of biofuels can be divided into three generations, this distinction is mainly based on the origin and the type of biomass used to produce the biofuels: (i) first generation is commonly recognized as a threat for the food security since their development could greatly influences the land use dedicated to a single energetic use and, the world food prices (Nicodème et al, 2018); (ii) second generation biofuels using lignocellulosic biomass such as corn stover, sugar cane bagasse, rice and sugar beet pulp (Li et al, 2020); (iii) Third generation of biofuels do not require agricultural land and potable water resources, in this case with algal biomass whit high oil content (Gajraj et al, 2018)
The results of the bibliometric analysis on sugar beet for production of biofuels based on publications indexed in Web of Science (WoS) will be presented

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Introduction

Fossil fuel based energy sources are being increasingly depleted (Madhania et al, 2019) and the demand for renewable energy is steadily increasing due to rapid population growth and economic development worldwide (Mujtaba et al, 2020). The production of biofuels can be divided into three generations, this distinction is mainly based on the origin and the type of biomass used to produce the biofuels: (i) first generation is commonly recognized as a threat for the food security since their development could greatly influences the land use dedicated to a single energetic use and, the world food prices (Nicodème et al, 2018); (ii) second generation biofuels using lignocellulosic biomass such as corn stover, sugar cane bagasse, rice and sugar beet pulp (Li et al, 2020); (iii) Third generation of biofuels do not require agricultural land and potable water resources, in this case with algal biomass whit high oil content (Gajraj et al, 2018). Sugar beet was identified as a promising feedstock option due to its high land-use efficient

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