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Algae can be converted into various types of fuels, depending on the production technologies and the part of the cells used. The lipid, or oily part of the algae biomass can be extracted and converted into biodiesel through a process similar to that used for any other vegetable oil, or converted in a refinery into "drop-in" replacements for petroleum-based fuels.
“The algae is eating CO2, or turning the CO2 into biomass,” explains Mr Haflidason. “It's carbon negative.” Vaxa's plant uses electricity from an adjacent geothermal power plant [Vaxa]
Iran started investigating the production of algae from 2000. Scientific evidence shows that south Iran is the richest area in the world for cultivating algae, because of high humidity, sunny weather, large unused area and salty water. [2] The first version of algae based biofuel will become available for industrial purposes in 2015. [3]
Since growing algae requires large amounts of sterile CO 2, smokestacks can be utilized for algaculture. Several commercial pilot plants are under construction. [39] [40] [41] There is substantial research and development work in this area but as of 2007 there is no commercial vegetable oil produced from algae and used as biofuel.
TURNING THE GREEN INTO ENERGY. So how does algae become biodiesel? Garton explained the algae has to be grown and cultivated. Afterwards, oil must be extracted from the algae, which can be further ...
This article was written by Oilprice.com, the leading provider of energy news in the world. US government scientists have succeeded in producing crude oil from algae in less than an hour, but are ...
The United States Department of Agriculture has also been ordered to fund $881 million of biofuel research, so the organization partnered with the U.S. Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration with the goal of researching algae-based biofuels that can be "dropped-into" current military fuel infrastructure. [1]
Biogasoline is a type of synthetic gasoline produced from biomass such as algae and plants. Like traditionally petroleum -derived gasoline, biogasoline is made up of hydrocarbons with 6 ( hexane ) to 12 ( dodecane ) carbon atoms per molecule , and can be directly used in conventional internal combustion engines .