**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) for awarding the National Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE) award to Centre for Biofuel and Biochemical Research, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP).

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