Biofuel from microalgae: Sustainable pathways

Alvin B. Culaba, Aristotle T. Ubando, Phoebe Mae L. Ching, Wei Hsin Chen, Jo Shu Chang

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摘要

As the demand for biofuels increases globally, microalgae offer a viable biomass feedstock to produce biofuel. With abundant sources of biomass in rural communities, these materials could be converted to biodiesel. Efforts are being done in order to pursue commercialization. However, its main usage is for other applications such as pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and aquaculture, which has a high return of investment. In the last 5 decades of algal research, cultivation to genetically engineered algae have been pursued in order to push algal biofuel commercialization. This will be beneficial to society, especially if coupled with a good government policy of algal biofuels and other by-products. Algal technology is a disruptive but complementary technology that will provide sustainability with regard to the world’s current issues. Commercialization of algal fuel is still a bottleneck and a challenge. Having a large production is technical feasible, but it is not economical as of now. Efforts for the cultivation and production of bio-oil are still ongoing and will continue to develop over time. The life cycle assessment methodology allows for a sustainable evaluation of the production of microalgae biomass to biodiesel.

原文English
文章編號8009
頁(從 - 到)1-19
頁數19
期刊Sustainability (Switzerland)
12
發行號19
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2020 10月 1

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 電腦科學(雜項)
  • 地理、規劃與發展
  • 可再生能源、永續發展與環境
  • 建築與營造
  • 環境科學(雜項)
  • 能源工程與電力技術
  • 硬體和架構
  • 電腦網路與通信
  • 管理、監督、政策法律

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