Look Back at the U.S. Department of Energy's Aquatic Species Program: Biodiesel from Algae; Close-Out Report

Biofuels from Microalgae

“…[16][17][18] It was estimated by Sheehan and his co-workers that microalgal farming using 200,000 ha of land (less than 0.1% climately suitable lands in the U.S. or 3.2% of the land currently used for the cultivation of sunflower and rapeseed in EU-25) would allow the production of a quad (i.e., a quadrillion BTU) of fuel in the form of biodiesel. 19 To put this in perspective, one quad is approximately one-eighth of Canada's total energy consumption in 2004 (8543.3 Â 10 15 J). 20 Yusuf Christi discussed the economics and quality constraints of biodiesel from microalgae in his recent review paper.…”

Effects of Sodium Nitrate and Mixotrophic Culture on Biomass and Lipid Production in Hypersaline Microalgae Dunaliella Viridis Teod

“…They have many applications in the food industries (El Baky et al 2013) and also have been used in biofuel production (Hu et al 2008;Sheehan et al 1998). In the past decade, bioenergy production from microalgae has been the subject of many studies.…”

Surveying techno-economic indicators of microalgae biofuel technologies

“…A set of articles can be found in the literature evidencing the technical feasibility of growing algae for biofuel production [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], in which the majority of them demonstrate the absence of the major drawbacks associated with current 1st generation biofuels. For example, the most common drawback pointed out of 1st generation biofuels as being the affect on food prices due to massive arable land use.…”

“…These organisms use solar energy to combine water with carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to create biomass [9]. The mechanism of photosynthesis in microalgae is similar to higher plants, with the difference in efficiency, microalgae are capable of producing 30 times as much oil per unit of land area as compared to terrestrial oilseed [9]. This technology uses the oils from microalgae as the raw material to produce biofuel.…”