Macroalgae-Derived Biofuel: A Review of Methods of Energy Extraction from Seaweed Biomass
By J. Milledge, Benjamin Smith, Philip W. Dyer, P. Harvey. 2014
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The potential of algal biomass as a source of liquid and gaseous biofuels is a highly topical theme, but as yet there is no successful economically viable commercial system producing biofuel. However, the majority of the research has focused on producing fuels from microalgae rather than from macroalgae. This article briefly reviews the methods by which useful energy may be extracted from macroalgae biomass including: direct combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, trans-esterification to biodiesel, hydrothermal liquefaction, fermentation to bioethanol, fermentation to biobutanol and anaerobic digestion, and explores technical and engineering difficulties that remain to be resolved.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Transportation fuels from biomass fast pyrolysis, catalytic hydrodeoxygenation, and catalytic fast hydropyrolysis (2018, background): “However, the ash content is very high (up to 50wt% db) [22,88–93], and the bio-oil yield is therefore only around 50-65wt% daf [22,93,94].”
- Starch from the sea: The green macroalga Ulva ohnoi as a potential source for sustainable starch production in the marine biorefinery (2019, unknown): “Use of this carbohydrate was reported for bioenergy production [21,36,37] however, whole biomass hydrolysis was done to produce monosaccharides for fermentation.”