Carbon footprint of microalgae production in photobioreactor

Analysis of water footprint of a photobioreactor microalgae biofuel production system from blue, green and lifecycle perspectives

Analysis of Water Footprint of a Photobioreactor Microalgae Biofuel 1 Production System from Blue, Green and Lifecycle Perspectives

8 Microalgae are currently being investigated as a feedstock for the commercial production of 9 transportation fuels, due to their potential scalability and sustainability advantages over conventional 10 feedstocks. The water consumption of microalgae has been postulated to be a resource barrier for 11 large-scale production. This study presents an assessment of the water footprint (WF) of a cl...

Novel photobioreactor for mass cultivation of microalgae

The Carbon Footprint of Beef Production

Modern-day agriculture allows the average farmer to produce enough food to feed 125 other people. This is in sharp contrast to the historical agricultural systems exemplified by farming in the 1800s, when each farm could produce only enough food to feed one other family. The global population has increased in line with productivity, yet the rate of increase in meat consumption is greater than t...

Light regime characterization in an airlift photobioreactor for production of microalgae with high starch content.

The slow development of microalgal biotechnology is due to the failure in the design of large-scale photobioreactors (PBRs) where light energy is efficiently utilized. In this work, both the quality and the amount of light reaching a given point of the PBR were determined and correlated with cell density, light path length, and PBR geometry. This was made for two different geometries of the dow...