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Record W4416443201 · doi:10.5376/jeb.2025.16.0025

The Potential of Sweet Potato in Bioethanol and Biogas Production

2025· article· W4416443201 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Energy Bioscience · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEngineering
TopicBiofuel production and bioconversion
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiofuelEthanol fuelRenewable energyBiogasBioenergyRaw materialProduction (economics)Renewable resourceFossil fuel

Abstract

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This study explores how sweet potatoes can be used to produce bioethanol and biogas, making them clean and renewable energy sources. Sweet potatoes have a high starch content, are adaptable to various types of soil, and have weak competitiveness with food crops. These characteristics make it an excellent raw material for the production of biofuels. This study reviewed the agronomic and biochemical characteristics of sweet potatoes and how these characteristics affect fuel production and energy efficiency. In addition, this study also explored the main production methods, such as low-temperature enzymatic hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion, which are conducive to converting sweet potatoes and their waste into ethanol and methane. Several cases from China, Africa and Brazil have demonstrated how sweet potato bioenergy can function in real life. In China, rural factories use simple fermentation systems to produce ethanol. In Africa, families use sweet potato waste to produce biogas for cooking. In Brazil, large farms operate integrated biorefineries that simultaneously produce ethanol, biogas, animal feed and fertilizers. These cases demonstrate that sweet potato energy projects can increase farm income, create job opportunities and reduce pollution. This article also points out related challenges, such as the high cost of enzymes, storage issues, and limited policy support. Even so, with the improvement of breeding levels, technological innovation and the application of digital tools, the prospects for sweet potato bioenergy are very bright. The development of this industry helps reduce the use of fossil fuels and supports green and low-carbon growth.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.411

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it