Microalgae Photobioreactor for Carbon Dioxide Fixation and Production of Biofuel Feedstock

Microalgae as Sustainable Renewable Energy Feedstock for Biofuel Production

The world energy crisis and increased greenhouse gas emissions have driven the search for alternative and environmentally friendly renewable energy sources. According to life cycle analysis, microalgae biofuel is identified as one of the major renewable energy sources for sustainable development, with potential to replace the fossil-based fuels. Microalgae biofuel was devoid of the major drawba...

Current Aspects of Carbon Dioxide Fixation by Microalgae in Korea

The carbon dioxide fixation by microalgae has several merits such as the COz recovery and the production of useful chemicals. Since the flue gas from a industry has some unfavorable conditions such a s high CQ concentration and toxic chemicals like SO., NO, contained in flue gas for the cultivation of m s t microalgae, it is important to apply a suitable strain of microalgae for the fixation of...

Radiation transfer in photobiological carbon dioxide fixation and fuel production by microalgae

Solar radiation is the energy source driving the metabolic activity of microorganisms able to photobiologically fixate carbon dioxide and convert solar energy into biofuels. Thus, careful radiation transfer analysis must be conducted in order to design and operate efficient photobioreactors. This review paper first introduces light harvesting mechanisms used by microorganisms as well as photosy...

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

Enhanced CO(2) fixation and biofuel production via microalgae: recent developments and future directions.

Unbalanced production of atmospheric CO(2) constitutes a major challenge to global sustainability. Technologies have thus been developed for enhanced biological carbon fixation (also referred to as CO(2) mitigation), and one of the most promising capitalizes on microalgae. However, the "best bioreactor", which would be able to achieve maximum productivity and maximum energy efficiency under a g...