TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel approaches of producing bioenergies from microalgae
T2 - A recent review
AU - Tan, Chung Hong
AU - Show, Pau Loke
AU - Chang, Jo Shu
AU - Ling, Tau Chuan
AU - Lan, John Chi Wei
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported financially by the SATU Joint Research Scheme (RU022E-2014) from University of Malaya, Malaysia; the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Malaysia, FRGS/1/2013/SG05/UNIM/02/1 ) and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation (Malaysia, MOSTI-02-02-12-SF0256 ) from the University of Nottingham in Malaysia and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST- 103-2221-E-155-055 , 103-3113-E-006-006 and 103-2221-E-006-190-MY3 ) in Taiwan.
PY - 2015/8/31
Y1 - 2015/8/31
N2 - Microalgae have caught the world's attention for its potential to solve one of the world's most pressing issues-sustainable green energy. Compared to biofuels supplied by oil palm, rapeseed, soybean and sugar cane, microalgae alone can be manipulated to generate larger amounts of biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen and biomass in a shorter time. Apart from higher productivity, microalgae can also grow using brackish water on non-arable land, greatly reducing the competition with food and cash crops. Hence, numerous efforts have been put into the commercialisation of microalgae-derived biofuel by both the government and private bodies. This paper serves to review conventional and novel methods for microalgae culture and biomass harvest, as well as recent developments in techniques for microalgal biofuel production.
AB - Microalgae have caught the world's attention for its potential to solve one of the world's most pressing issues-sustainable green energy. Compared to biofuels supplied by oil palm, rapeseed, soybean and sugar cane, microalgae alone can be manipulated to generate larger amounts of biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen and biomass in a shorter time. Apart from higher productivity, microalgae can also grow using brackish water on non-arable land, greatly reducing the competition with food and cash crops. Hence, numerous efforts have been put into the commercialisation of microalgae-derived biofuel by both the government and private bodies. This paper serves to review conventional and novel methods for microalgae culture and biomass harvest, as well as recent developments in techniques for microalgal biofuel production.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2015.02.013
DO - 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2015.02.013
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25728066
AN - SCOPUS:84955213207
VL - 33
SP - 1219
EP - 1227
JO - Biotechnology Advances
JF - Biotechnology Advances
SN - 0734-9750
IS - 6
ER -