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The increase in the world's energy demand has contributed to the emergence of new sustainable energy sources, such as microalgae, with their great potential to provide biofuels and other high value co-products for the food and health's markets. However, current biorefinery methodologies are...
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Biodiesel is a promising sustainable alternative to non-renewable petrodiesel. In this work, oils extracted from … microalgae are used for biodiesel production. To simplify the process, the extraction of the oils and their reaction are made to … (35-50 °C), reaction time (2-6 h), and methanol:oil (M:O) molar ratio (8:1-16:1) on biodiesel yield were investigated …
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It presents an effective bio-butanol production with various acid hydrolysis treatment strategies H2SO4, HCI and H3PO4 (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5%) from Nannochloropsis gaditana grown under different light intensities (40, 80, 120 and 160μmolm-2 s-1). Microalgae were cultivated at 24 ± 2 with f/2...
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The growing impacts of climate change mainly due to the increasing emissions of GHG, especially carbon dioxide, has led to the development and implementation of specific strategies and policies to reduce them. Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) is currently seen as a good option, as it...
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biodiesel from microalgae, several studies have been published making use of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, which … materials consumption are used to create an inventory of inputs and outputs for biomass cultivation and biodiesel production, in … biodiesel it is necessary about 12 kg of dried algae biomass. This study supports the decision-making process in biofuel …
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Cold flow properties are the main issue to regular usage of Palm biodiesel as alternative fuel to diesel. The inferior … cold flow property of biodiesel causes gum formation and crystallization of fuel particles which can be enhanced by … biodiesel obtained from palm oil. Blending and using of cold flow improver were adopted among various methods to enhance the …
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This study examined the effect of degumming process on physicochemical and biodiesel properties of six non … both degummed and crude oils were carried out using the AOAC (1990) methods. The fuel properties of the biodiesel obtained … were carried out using ASTM methods. Results showed that degumming process lead to high biodiesel yield and reduced the …
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biodiesel production, used to minimize methanol inhibition effect and enhance the stability of immobilized enzyme. Despite their … eutectic solvents (DESs) has been investigated as a new reaction medium for enzymatic biodiesel production from waste oils. A … of the DES-Novozym®435 system in consecutive cycles was examined. It was shown that 34% biodiesel production yield could …
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conclusion that biodiesel along with higher alcohols can be an appropriate substitute for this situation. Former investigations … have presented that biodiesel and higher alcohol can help in improving the performance and depreciating harmful exhaust … gases in a diesel engine. In the current investigation blends of diesel, rice bran biodiesel and n-butanol were prepared to …
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nd generation transport biodiesels in Australia. The challenges associated with biodiesel production and their possible … solutions, particularly on feedstock selection, oil extraction, conversion of oil into biodiesel, biodiesel storage and …
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