Abstract:
:There is currently a renewed interest in developing microalgae as a source of renewable energy and fuel. Microalgae hold great potential as a source of biomass for the production of energy and fungible liquid transportation fuels. However, the technologies required for large-scale cultivation, processing, and conversion of microalgal biomass to energy products are underdeveloped. Microalgae offer several advantages over traditional 'first-generation' biofuels crops like corn: these include superior biomass productivity, the ability to grow on poor-quality land unsuitable for agriculture, and the potential for sustainable growth by extracting macro- and micronutrients from wastewater and industrial flue-stack emissions. Integrating microalgal cultivation with municipal wastewater treatment and industrial CO(2) emissions from coal-fired power plants is a potential strategy to produce large quantities of biomass, and represents an opportunity to develop, test, and optimize the necessary technologies to make microalgal biofuels more cost-effective and efficient. However, many constraints on the eventual deployment of this technology must be taken into consideration and mitigating strategies developed before large scale microalgal cultivation can become a reality. As a strategy for CO(2) biomitigation from industrial point source emitters, microalgal cultivation can be limited by the availability of land, light, and other nutrients like N and P. Effective removal of N and P from municipal wastewater is limited by the processing capacity of available microalgal cultivation systems. Strategies to mitigate against the constraints are discussed.
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Photosynth Resjournal_title
Photosynthesis researchauthors
McGinn PJ,Dickinson KE,Bhatti S,Frigon JC,Guiot SR,O'Leary SJdoi
10.1007/s11120-011-9638-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-09-01 00:00:00pages
231-47issue
1-3eissn
0166-8595issn
1573-5079journal_volume
109pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1992-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
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