Milking Diatoms for Sustainable Energy: Biochemical Engineering versus Gasoline-Secreting Diatom Solar Panels

By T. Ramachandra, D. Mahapatra, B. Karthick, Richard D. Gordon. 2009

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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• Euglena sp. as a suitable source of lipids for potential use as biofuel and sustainable wastewater treatment (2013, background): “Energy generation from algal biomass was advocated in 1960s (Oswald and Golueke 1960) and gained momentum in recent times owing to the exhaustion of fossil-based reserves resulting in increased fuel prices and also due to increased green house gas (GHG) emissions (Ramachandra et al. 2009; Wang et al”
• Cultivation, photobioreactor design and harvesting of microalgae for biodiesel production: a critical review. (2011, methodology): “To further decrease electricity consumption, solar panels and a wind power generator were also introduced our work (Ramachandra et al., 2009).”
• Transcriptome and Gene Expression Analysis of an Oleaginous Diatom Under Different Salinity Conditions (2013, unknown): “Therefore, living diatoms have been of considerable interest as candidates for the production of renewable biofuels [5].”
• Genetic Engineering of Algae for Enhanced Biofuel Production (2010, background): “Most of these come from the manipulation of E. coli, in which the overexpression and deletion of entire metabolic pathways are feasible.”
• Algal biofuel from urban wastewater in India: Scope and challenges (2013, background): “The inadequacy of fossil fuels and increasing oil prices along with the increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions poses inevitable threats to global environment, and necessitates our dependencies on alternative energy sources as algal fuel [1].”