Biodiesel production—current state of the art and challenges

By P. T. Vasudevan, Michael Briggs. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology

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Alginate lyase: Structure, property, and application (2011, background): “Recently, algal biomass has attracted much attention as the raw materials for biohydrogen, bioethanol and biodiesel [70-72].”
Growth and lipid accumulation properties of a freshwater microalga Scenedesmus sp. under different cultivation temperature. (2011, background): “Due to the quick development of human activities and over consumption of fossil fuels, the energy crisis is representing the largest challenge of the 21st century, and the oil and natural gas storage on earth has been estimated to be depleted in 40 and 64 years, respectively (Vasudevan and Briggs, 2”
Microalgae: A promising feedstock for biodiesel (2009, background): “The current feedstocks for commercial biodiesel include waste cooking oil, animal fat and various oleaginous species such as soybean, rapeseed, corn, sunflower, peanut, jatropha and oil palm (Barnwal and Sharma, 2005; Felizardo et al., 2006; Vasudevan and Birggs, 2008).”
Growth and lipid accumulation properties of a freshwater microalga, Chlorella ellipsoidea YJ1, in domestic secondary effluents (2011, neutral): “The modern world is currently experiencing an unprecedented energy crisis [1], which makes new alternative and sustainable energy sources vital [2–4].”
Beneficial effects of silicon nutrition in alleviating salinity stress in hydroponically grown canola, Brassica napus L., plants (2010, background): “biodiesel) and canola is currently the third most important crop after soybean and maize for biodiesel production (Vasudevan and Briggs 2008).”
Comparison of several methods for effective lipid extraction from microalgae. (2010, background): “Thus, the production of biodiesel using various materials, such as plants, microalgae, and animal fat, has been attempted as an alternative energy source (Vasudevan and Briggs, 2008).”
Cultivation of filamentous cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in agro-industrial wastes and wastewaters: A review (2011, background): “They include thermochemical conversion (gasification, direct combustion and pyrolysis), biochemical conversion (anaerobic fermentation, anaerobic digestion and photobiological hydrogen production) and esterification of fatty acids to produce biodiesel [5–12].”
Third generation biofuels from microalgae (2010, background): “The transesterification reaction consists of transforming triglycerides into fatty acid alkyl esters, in the presence of an alcohol, such as methanol or ethanol, and a catalyst, such as an alkali or acid, with glycerol as a byproduct [51].”