Biodiesel from microalgae beats bioethanol.

By Y. Chisti. Trends in Biotechnology, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Algae as promising feedstocks for fermentative biohydrogen production according to a biorefinery approach: A comprehensive review (2015, background): “cellulose, starch) and proteins can be processed by dark fermentation [66–68] and/or anaerobic digestion [69].”
Heterotrophic cultivation of mixed microalgae for lipid accumulation and wastewater treatment during sequential growth and starvation phases: Effect of nutrient supplementation (2012, background): “Their lipid productivity/biomass (dry weight) is also 15e300 times higher than that of conventional crops [5].”
Biodiesel from microalgae: A critical evaluation from laboratory to large scale production (2013, background): “The cost of media for microalgal biomass production in a 100 ton per annum is estimated to be approximately $3000 ton 1 [75].”
Gold nanoparticles produced in a microalga (2011, background): “Methods are well-developed for large scale culture of microalgae under controlled conditions (Chisti 2007; Chisti 2008 ) to produce a consistent supply of the biomass.”
The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know? (2009, background): “Many researchers are seeking biodiesel alternatives, such as algae and jatropha, which might be cheaper and less likely to compete with food crops (Chisti 2008).”
Biomass as Renewable Energy: Worldwide Research Trends (2019, background): “This includes new sources of fat or raw materials such as microalgae [44,45] or insects [46], and was found as a keyword for the country of Brazil [47,48].”
Microalgae: The Potential for Carbon Capture (2010, background): “Algae are estimated to produce two- to tenfold more biomass per unit land area than the best terrestrial systems (Chisti 2008, Packer 2009, Pienkos and Darzins 2009, Mata et al. 2010, Stephens et al. 2010, Weyer et al. 2010).”
The air‐lift photobioreactors with flow patterning for high‐density cultures of microalgae and carbon dioxide removal (2009, background): “The microalgae-based biodiesel, in contrast to fossil fuels, is renewable, biodegradable, and produced with low pollutant emissions [7, 8].”
Toward solar fuels: photocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to hydrocarbons. (2010, methodology): “or using microalgae.(20,21) Oil extracted from crops or microalgae via chemical or mechanical methods is subjected to a transesterification process to form alkyl esters (biodiesel).”
Heterotrophic cultures of microalgae: metabolism and potential products. (2011, background): “Because biofuels from microalgae was recently reviewed so extensively from every angle (Chisti, 2007, 2008; Li et al., 2008a,b; Sharif Hossain et al., 2008; Song et al., 2008; Khan et al., 2009; Huang et al., 2010; Mata et al., 2010; Sivakumar et al., 2010), this review will briefly present only a…”
Technological trends, global market, and challenges of bio-ethanol production. (2010, background): “Other advantages of microalgal systems are: (1) microalgae can be harvested batch-wise nearly all-year-round; (2) they grow in aqueous media, but need less water than terrestrial crops, therefore reducing the load on freshwater sources; (3) microalgae can be cultivated in brackish water on non-arabl”