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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 OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jiayao Zhou

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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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