Biofuel Production in India: Potential, Prospectus and Technology

Regional water footprints of potential biofuel production in China

BACKGROUND Development of biofuels is considered as one of the important ways to replace conventional fossil energy and mitigate climate change. However, rapid increase of biofuel production could cause other environmental concerns in China such as water stress. This study is intended to evaluate the life-cycle water footprints (WF) of biofuels derived from several potential non-edible feedstoc...

Potential of lipid metabolism in marine diatoms for biofuel production

BACKGROUND Diatoms are an ecologically relevant group of microalgae that are not commonly considered for bio-oil production even if they are responsible for massive blooms at sea. Seventeen diatom species were screened for their capacity to produce biomass and lipids, in relation to their growth rate. Triglyceride levels were also assessed as a preferential source of biofuels. RESULTS Using s...

Potential Production of Biofuel from Microalgae Biomass Produced in Wastewater

An overview of algae biofuel production and potential environmental impact.

Algae are among the most potentially significant sources of sustainable biofuels in the future of renewable energy. A feedstock with virtually unlimited applicability, algae can metabolize various waste streams (e.g., municipal wastewater, carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas) and produce products with a wide variety of compositions and uses. These products include lipids, which can be proce...

Bacteria in Biofuel Production

In this work, bacteria are regarded either as production organisms or as interacting organisms with another production organism, namely yeast. The aim of using bacteria as a production organism was, to optimize Rubisco activity by introducing additional gene cassettes of Rubisco in Cyanobacteria. At first, RBC operon was tried to clone in pDF-Trc plasmid, using infusion cloning, but did not obt...