Authors:
Amadeus Pribowo, Irnayuli Sitepu, Ezra Wijaya, Victor De Vries and Kyria Boundy-Mills
Book:
Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress
Venue:
Kuching
Keywords:
biodiversity, biomass, biorefinery, metagenomic, residue
Documentfile:
ipc16p224-228a422probowositepu.etal_.pdf
Summary:
SUMMARY
As the world’s number one producer of palm oil, the palm oil industry in Indonesia produces more than 30 million metric tonnes of empty fruit bunches (EFB) every year. Currently, most of these biomass residues have little value or go to waste. These biomass residues can be converted into a number of value-added products, such as biofuels. On the other hand, a large part of Indonesian microbial biodiversity remains unknown to science due to minimum research funds and capabilities in Indonesia. The objective of this study is to explore Indonesia’s biodiversity and to find novel enzymes that can improve the efficiency of converting Indonesia’s abundant biomass residues into biofuels. We target microbial communities living in peat swamp forests and herbivore guts, that are likely sources…