Microalgal Biomass for Greenhouse Gas Reductions: Potential for Replacement of Fossil Fuels and Animal Feeds

Microalgal Biomass for Greenhouse Gas Reductions; Potential for Replacement of Fossil-Fuels and Animal Feeds

Microalgal biomass production offers a number of advantages over conventional biomass production including, higher productivities, use of otherwise non­ productive land, reuse and recovery of waste nutrients, use of saline or brackish waters, and reuse of CO2 from power-plant flue-gas or similar sources. Microalgal biomass production and utilization offers potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) avo...

Economic Potential of Biomass Based Fuels for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation

Use of biofuels diminishes fossil fuel combustion, thereby also reducing net greenhouse gas emissions. However, subsidies are needed to make agricultural biofuel production economically feasible. To explore the economic potential of biofuels in a greenhouse gas mitigation market, we incorporate data on production and biofuel processing for the designated energy crops—switchgrass, hybrid poplar,...

Exploitation of Unconventional Fossil Fuels: Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Microalgal and Terrestrial Transport Biofuels to Displace Fossil Fuels

Terrestrial transport biofuels differ in their ability to replace fossil fuels. When both the conversion of solar energy into biomass and the life cycle inputs of fossil fuels are considered, ethanol from sugarcane and biodiesel from palm oil do relatively well, if compared with ethanol from corn, sugar beet or wheat and biodiesel from rapeseed. When terrestrial biofuels are to replace mineral ...

Biomass for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction

ECN BCM L. Dinkelbach J. van Doorn D. Jansen J.P.A. Neeft A.B.J. Oudhuis R. van Ree J.H. Reith H. den Uil F. Goudriaan – Biofuel B.V. H.A. Zanting – Gibros PEC B.V.