Biofuel, a form of renewable fuel, has promising future, especially as the alternative fuel for transportation. Biofuel is usually blended with petroleum fuel and used in flex fuel engines. Since the characteristics of biofuel are quite different from those of the petroleum based fuel, it is very important to optimize the combustion properties for biofuel engines under different fuel blends. Th...

Cultivation of algae for biofuel would result in the production of significant amounts of post-extraction algal residue (PEAR). The economic viability of algae as source of biofuel is dependent on deriving value from PEAR. Livestock feed is an attractive option for PEAR because of the successful utilization of other co-products by ruminants. While sufficient quantities of PEAR were not availabl...

221 ISSN 1759-7269 10.4155/BFS.11.157 © M Hildebrand A frequently stated reason for choosing unicellular microalgae as biofuel-production organisms is that they are more efficient than vascular plants at turning light and nutrients into valuable products. The economics of algal biofuels is critically dependent on productivity, and one can apply the same criterion and ask the question: among the...

Microalgae are a vital resource for the coming years to address concern of decrease in oil reserves and negative impacts fossil fuels on environment. Their utilization is crucial wide range industrial applications. Depending strain, microalgae contain variety chemical components can be treated biochemically or thermochemically. This review thus focuses biochemical mechanisms that used convert a...

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...

A biofuel cell is a device for converting chemical energy to electrical energy by a simple way. A high-impact anode is prepared in this research. Here, carboxylated multiwall carbon nanotube (COOH-MWCNT), polydiallyldimethyl ammonium chloride (PDDA) and alcohol dehydrogenase were cast on modified glassy carbon with polymethylene green to construct the bioanode for ...

Nanotechnology has opened up new opportunities for the design of nanoscale electronic devices suitable for developing high-performance biofuel cells. Glucose-based biofuel cells as green energy sources can be a powerful tool in the service of small-scale power source technology as it provides a latent potential to supply power for various implantable medical electronic devices. By using physiol...