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Biofuel and Biomass Security
Published in Maria G. Burns, Managing Energy Security, 2019
Environment and safety: It is environmentally friendly.Algae fuel is more eco-friendly compared with other fuels.It does not occupy arable lands and does not deprive water from the food industry as it is harvested in aquatic environments. It requires saline and waste water.It is biodegradable, non-toxic, and comparatively innocuous to the ecosystem if spilled.
Alternative fuels
Published in Tom Denton, Alternative Fuel Vehicles, 2018
Algae fuel uses algae as its source of energyrich oils. The algae are grown in pods or beds or transparent tubes. As a fuel, it only releases CO2 recently removed from the atmosphere via photosynthesis as the algae or plant grew. The algae can be grown with minimal impact on fresh water resources and can even be produced using saline and wastewater. The resulting fuels have a high flash point and are biodegradable so are relatively harmless to the environment if spilled.
Microalgae as Nature’s Doctor
Published in Pankaj Chowdhary, Abhay Raj, Contaminants and Clean Technologies, 2020
Trashi Singh, Tanim Arpit Singh, Payal Basu, Siddharth Boudh, Pradeep Shukla
Algae fuel can be a potential alternative to nonrenewable fossil fuel, and its source includes microalgal deposits. Certain algal species can synthesize oil up to 60% of their dry weight. They flourish and grow well in the presence of water and CO2. Thus, in the marine niche, they are capable of producing a large amount of biomass that can be exploited for oil extraction (Scott et al. 2010).
Assessment of performance and emission characteristics of an off-highway vehicle engine fuelled with renewable fuel blends
Published in International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2022
Abhinav Kumar, Utkarsh Chaudhary, Amit Kumar Dinday, C. G. Mohan, R. Prakash, L. Saravanakumar, S. Prabhakar
In the present investigation, experiments were conducted in twin-cylinder, tractor engine fuelled with algae biodiesel and its blends. Algae fuel mostly works as a substitute for liquid fossil fuels that efficiently burn and it is energy-rich oils that come from the algae (Suganya, Gandhi, and Renganathan 2013). Furthermore, algae fuels also work as a substitute for other liquid fuel sources such as sugarcane, corn, etc. When synthesised from seaweed (microalgae), then it is called seaweed oil or seaweed fuel (Chuah et al. 2015). The type of microalgae used in this research to extract biodiesel is ‘Chlorella Vulgaris’ (Mathimani, Kumar, and Chandrasekar 2017). There are various methods to extract biofuel from these microalgae, usually present as a green colour substance in the water bodies. At the moment, the production of biodiesel comes with a high-cost acts as the main roadblock in the commercialization of the fuel (Tüccar, Özgür, and Aydın 2013). The raw feedstock is correlated with nearly 70–95% of the total cost for the biofuel synthesis, which is due to the less availability of the crops from which oil is extracted, and serves as a source for the biofuel production (Haik, Selim, and Abdulrehman 2011). However, some other methods can be found out and the prices can be reduced as soon as the biofuel is started to be produced commercially (Ramesha et al. 2016).