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Various grains for sale in a market in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Grains are cereal food crops. Various kinds of grain can be used to produce bioethanol.

Grains that are being used as ethanol feedstocks include corn, milo, sorghum, and wheat.









Controversies concerning bioenergy edit
Food security | Food-versus-fuel debate (Biofuel impacts on food prices)

Food crops used for biofuels: corn

Bioenergy feedstocks edit

Biodiesel feedstocks:
Currently in use: Animal fat | Castor beans | Coconut oil | Jatropha | Jojoba | Karanj | Palm oil | Rapeseed | Soybeans | Sunflower seed | Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO)
Currently in research and development: Algae | Halophytes (Salt-tolerant plants)

Ethanol feedstocks:
First-generation: Cassava | Corn | Milo | Nypa palm | Sorghum | Sugar beets | Sugar cane | Sweet potato | Waste citrus peels | Wheat | Whey
Second-generation: For cellulosic technology - Grasses: Miscanthus, Prairie grasses, Switchgrass | Trees: Hybrid poplar, Mesquite, Willow

Charcoal feedstocks: Bamboo | Wood
Waste-to-energy (MSW)


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