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Anaerobic digestion of microalgae residues resulting from the biodiesel production process
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The recovery of methane from post transesterified microalgae residues has the potential to improve the renewability of the ‘microalgae biomass to biodiesel’ conversion process as well as reduce its cost and environmental impact.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 253 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biodiesel production & Anaerobic digestion.read more
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Mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic laboratory-scale digestion of Nannochloropsis microalga residues
TL;DR: This paper studies methane production using a marine microalga, Nannochloropsis sp.
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Carbon conversion efficiency and population dynamics of a marine algae-bacteria consortium growing on simplified synthetic digestate: first step in a bioprocess coupling algal production and anaerobic digestion.
Christophe Vasseur,Gaël Bougaran,Matthieu Garnier,Jérôme Hamelin,Christophe Leboulanger,Myriam Le Chevanton,Behzad Mostajir,Bruno Sialve,Jean-Philippe Steyer,Eric Fouilland +9 more
TL;DR: The use of digestates for sustaining the growth of microalgae reduces the costs and the environmental impacts associated with the substantial algal nutrient requirements, and the associated bacterial community was considered beneficial to the total biomass production by recycling the carbon lost during photosynthesis and assimilating organic by-products from anaerobic digestion.
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Environmental sustainability of emerging algal biofuels: A comparative life cycle evaluation of algal biodiesel and renewable diesel
George G. Zaimes,Vikas Khanna +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the energy return on investment (EROI) and life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for producing algal derived biodiesel and renewable diesel under different production pathways were modeled.
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Environmental assessment of bioenergy production from microalgae based systems
Allan Hayato Shimako,Allan Hayato Shimako,Allan Hayato Shimako,Ligia Tiruta-Barna,Ligia Tiruta-Barna,Ligia Tiruta-Barna,Yoann Pigné,Enrico Benetto,Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez,Pascal Guiraud,Pascal Guiraud,Pascal Guiraud,Aras Ahmadi,Aras Ahmadi,Aras Ahmadi +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two bioenergy production systems of very different complexities were modelled to assess their environmental efficiencies: a biodiesel system and a biogas system, and the cumulative energy demand, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and dynamic LCA for climate change were used to evaluate the environmental footprint of the production systems.
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Microalgae to biofuels: Life cycle impacts of methane production of anaerobically digested lipid extracted algae
TL;DR: Experimental measurements of the biochemical methane production for whole and lipid extracted Nannochloropsis salina illustrate current anaerobic modeling efforts in microalgae to biofuel assessments are not reflecting the impact of lipid removal.
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Biodiesel from microalgae.
TL;DR: As demonstrated here, microalgae appear to be the only source of renewable biodiesel that is capable of meeting the global demand for transport fuels.
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Microalgal triacylglycerols as feedstocks for biofuel production: perspectives and advances
Qiang Hu,Milton Sommerfeld,Eric E. Jarvis,Maria L. Ghirardi,Matthew C. Posewitz,Michael Seibert,Aldis Darzins +6 more
TL;DR: A brief summary of the current knowledge on oleaginous algae and their fatty acid and TAG biosynthesis, algal model systems and genomic approaches to a better understanding of TAG production, and a historical perspective and path forward for microalgae-based biofuel research and commercialization are provided.
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Biodiesel from microalgae beats bioethanol.
TL;DR: Biodiesel from microalgae seems to be the only renewable biofuel that has the potential to completely displace petroleum-derived transport fuels without adversely affecting supply of food and other crop products.