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Increasing energy demands, predicted fossil fuels shortage in the near future, and environmental concerns such as the production of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have motivated the search for alternative and cleaner energy sources. Biodiesel has received much attention in recent years and...
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/L respectively) and lipid (244.44±12.3 and 587.38±20.2mg/L respectively) yield with an organic carbon (acetate) source. Scenedesmus … lipid content (410.03±18.5mg/L) of the residual biomass. Fatty acid profile of the lipid extracted from the residual biomass …
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production based on their lipid profiles. Among the microalgae, there are thousands of species and several of these have been … microalgal species have shown potential for high biomass growth and lipid productivity, only a few have been found to provide a …
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lipid production, there is currently no consensus as to which species provide the highest productivity. Different species …
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This article reports the results of the screening of microalgae capable of removing nitrogen and phosphorus while accumulating lipids in effluents from secondary domestic wastewater treatment. Twenty strains were tested for their growth capacity; the growth parameters of 13 strains were...
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feasible. However, the biomass and lipid productivity must be improved prior to large-scale production. The paper is therefore …
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lipid) is still a great challenge for a commercial biodiesel production. This is due to the difference between optimal … culture conditions required for biomass and lipid accumulation. The current study proposes a two-phase method allowing both … biomass and lipid increase in Dunaliella tertiolecta. The used this method consists of a first phase when microalgae were …
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focuses on the lipid prospects of algae grown in wastewater systems. Euglena sp., Spirogyra sp. and Phormidium sp. were … collected from selected locations of sewage fed urban lakes and sewage treatment plants of Bangalore and Mysore. The total lipid … lipid yield potential was 6.52, 1.94 and 2.856t/ha/year, respectively. These species showed higher content of fatty acids …
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study uses microscopy and chromatography to analyze the progression of lipid profile and cell structure of algal cells … shown that TAG content decreased, while DAG and FFA content increased during processing. The changes in the lipid content … nature of lipid composition in an algal culture used for biofuel production and emphasize the need to monitor changes in …
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Culturing microalgae heterotrophically for producing lipid-based biofuels such as biodiesel and renewable hydrocarbons … has attracted increasing attention due to the advantages of fast growth and high lipid yield under this growth mode … first stage with a productivity of 24.2gL−1d−1, and the lipid content increased from 14.5% to 38.7% in the second stage …
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