ABSTRACT
The global scenario demonstrates that lion share of research in past three decades have been focused on technological know-how development for bioethanol since its emergence as a potential fuel additive. All the key challenges on energy and economic front have already been pinpointed in various forums as sole restrictors for commercialization of lignocellulosic bioethanol technology (Cardona et al. 2010). Evidently a non-molasses
feedstock was to be brought into reality to meet excess ethanol demand for 5-10% compulsory blending. Biomass being a cheap and renewable raw material with abundant availability (Saxena et al. 2009; Kumar et al. 2009a; Cheng et al. 2008), has been considered as an excellent feedstock for bioethanol production due to its high holocellulosic content.
