Comparative cost analysis of algal oil production for biofuels

By Amy C. Sun, Ryan Davis, Meghan Starbuck, A. Ben-amotz, R. Pate, P. Pienkos. 2011

249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Biomedical Engineering

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2. Kamrul Hasan Chowdury
3. P. McGinn
4. Ujjwal Kumar Deb

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. N. Nahar
2. J. Lowrey
3. Kamrul Hasan Chowdury
4. M. Brooks
5. P. McGinn
6. Ujjwal Kumar Deb

Citations in the corpus

• Heterotrophic and mixotrophic cultivation of microalgae for biodiesel production in agricultural wastewaters and associated challenges—a critical review (2014, background): “ing waste streams, decreasing infrastructural costs, and decreasing product recovery costs (Li et al. 2008; Williams PJB and Laurens 2010; Sun et al. 2011).”
• Process Design and Economics for the Production of Algal Biomass: Algal Biomass Production in Open Pond Systems and Processing Through Dewatering for Downstream Conversion (2016, background): “Literature scan demonstrating variability in estimated cost of algal biomass and bio-oil, differentiating between “current performance” versus “future projections” [7,8,10,12-22]”
• The Growth Factors Involved in Microalgae Cultivation for Biofuel Production: A Review (2020, background): “Though microalgae can produce different types of biofuels, such as biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen, syngas, biobutanol, and bioelectricity [7] [8], yet the majority of economic analyses conclude that microalgae biofuels cannot compete with conventional fuels because of its high price [9] [10].”