Substituting microalgal biomass with faecal sludge for high-quality biocrude production through co-liquefaction: A sustainable biorefinery approach
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Different approaches are discussed in recent scientific literature to improve economic issues, such as using co-HTL to cover algal reduced productivity in colder seasons or algal cultivation costs and previously extracting valuable compounds from algae then converting residual biomass into biofuel.
“Different approaches are also discussed in the recent scientific literature and aim to improve the economic issues, such as using the co-HTL process to cover algal reduced productivity in colder seasons [87, 88] or algal cultivation costs [89] and previously extracting valuable compounds from the algae and then converting the residual biomass into biofuel [90–92].”
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- Authors
- Islam, M. B., Khalekuzzaman, M., Kabir, S. B., Hossain, M. R., & Alam, M. A.
- Affiliations
- Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (BD)
- Zhengzhou University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Khalekuzzaman, Md
- Venue
- Fuel Processing Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-01
- Volume
- 225
- Pages
- 107063
- ISSN
- 0378-3820 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3208792268
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 2.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Fuel Processing Technology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Algal biology and biofuel production
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Keywords
- microalgal biomass, fecal sludge, biocrude, hydrothermal liquefaction, biorefinery, energy recovery, hydrocarbon yield, waste substitution, low-cost feedstock
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