Microalgae as Sustainable Renewable Energy Feedstock for Biofuel Production
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The world energy crisis and increased greenhouse gas emissions have driven the search for alternative and environmentally friendly renewable energy sources. According to life cycle analysis, microalgae biofuel is identified as one of the major renewable energy sources for sustainable development, with potential to replace the fossil-based fuels. Microalgae biofuel was devoid of the major drawbacks associated with oil crops and lignocelluloses-based biofuels. Algae-based biofuels are technically and economically viable and cost competitive, require no additional lands, require minimal water use, and mitigate atmospheric CO 2. However, commercial production of microalgae biodiesel is still not feasible due to the low biomass concentration and costly downstream processes. The viability of microalgae biodiesel production can be achieved by designing advanced photobioreactors, developing low cost technologies for biomass harvesting, drying, and oil extraction. Commercial production can also be accomplished by improving the genetic engineering strategies to control environmental stress conditions and by engineering metabolic pathways for high lipid production. In addition, new emerging technologies such as algal-bacterial interactions for enhancement of microalgae growth and lipid production are also explored. This review focuses mainly on the problems encountered in the commercial production of microalgae biofuels and the possible techniques to overcome these difficulties.
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Microalgae are capable of producing algal oil 58,700 L/hac which can produce 121,104 L/hac biodiesels.
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- Authors
- Medipally, S. R., Yusoff, F. M., Banerjee, S., & Shariff, M.
- Affiliations
- Universiti Putra Malaysia (MY)
- Corresponding author
- Yusoff, Fatimah Md.
- Venue
- BioMed Research International
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 2015
- Pages
- 1-13
- ISSN
- 1110-7243 (ISSN-L)
- 2314-6133
- 2314-6141
- PMC
- PMC4385614
- OpenAlex
- W2083847643
- Cited by
- 316
- References
- 128
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- BioMed Research International (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Universiti Putra Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Putra Malaysia) (acceptedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Algal biology and biofuel production
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Bioenergy crop production and management
- Keywords
- microalgae, microalgae biodiesel, biofuel production, renewable energy, photobioreactors, lipid production, biomass harvesting, oil extraction, genetic engineering, algal-bacterial interactions, CO2 emission reduction, commercialization barriers
- MeSH terms
- Biofuels, Microalgae
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