The document discusses microalgae as a source of biofuels. It notes that microalgae have the potential to produce more biomass and oil per unit area than other feedstocks. The document outlines the cultivation, harvesting, and processing steps to produce biofuels from microalgae, including biodiesel production via transesterification. While microalgae have promising theoretical yields, achieving these at commercial scale has proven challenging due to the energy and costs required for cultivation, harvesting, and processing of algal biomass.
A variety of fuels can be made from biomassi resources including the liquid fuels ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, and gaseous fuels such as hydrogen and methane. Biofuels research and development is composed of three main areas: producing the fuels, applications and uses of the fuels, and distribution infrastructure.
Biofuels are primarily used to fuel vehicles, but can also fuel engines or fuel cells for electricity generation. For information about the use of biofuels in vehicles, see the Alternative Fuel Vehicle page under Vehicles. See the Vehicles page for information about the biofuels distribution infrastructure. See the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells page for more information about hydrogen as a fuel.
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to examine the increasing economic feasibility of algae biofuels. Algae can be grown in places where traditional crops cannot be grown and it consumes carbon dioxide, thus making it better than traditional sources of biofuels. It can also be harvested every 10 days thus making its oil yield per acre 200 times higher than corn and 40 times higher than sunflowers. The problem is that harvesting and extracting the algae requires large amounts of labor and energy (drying) and the algae may damage surrounding eco-systems. Thus new and better processes along with large scale production are needed to solve these problems. These slides discuss the various approaches (open pond, photo-bioreactor, fermentation), their advantages and disadvantages, their existing and future costs, and other improvements that are driving steadily falling costs. In the short term, algae will continue to be used in niche applications such as cosmetics, food, and fertilizers. In the long run, as the cost reductions continue, algae might become a major source of fuel for transportation and other applications.
Biohydrogen may produced by steam reforming of methane (biogas) produced by anaerobic digestion of organic waste. In the latter process, natural gas and steam react to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
In this world of concerns regarding depletion of fossil fuels, pollution control and other factors leading to threat of man kind survival a way of producing biodiesel from algae which can be a source of alternative fuel. Lots of methods and sources being used for producing biodiesel but from algae one can produce high amount of biodiesel depending on the type of species or strain selected and this way this is a viable and feasible method to produce biodiesel.....
A variety of fuels can be made from biomassi resources including the liquid fuels ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, and gaseous fuels such as hydrogen and methane. Biofuels research and development is composed of three main areas: producing the fuels, applications and uses of the fuels, and distribution infrastructure.
Biofuels are primarily used to fuel vehicles, but can also fuel engines or fuel cells for electricity generation. For information about the use of biofuels in vehicles, see the Alternative Fuel Vehicle page under Vehicles. See the Vehicles page for information about the biofuels distribution infrastructure. See the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells page for more information about hydrogen as a fuel.
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to examine the increasing economic feasibility of algae biofuels. Algae can be grown in places where traditional crops cannot be grown and it consumes carbon dioxide, thus making it better than traditional sources of biofuels. It can also be harvested every 10 days thus making its oil yield per acre 200 times higher than corn and 40 times higher than sunflowers. The problem is that harvesting and extracting the algae requires large amounts of labor and energy (drying) and the algae may damage surrounding eco-systems. Thus new and better processes along with large scale production are needed to solve these problems. These slides discuss the various approaches (open pond, photo-bioreactor, fermentation), their advantages and disadvantages, their existing and future costs, and other improvements that are driving steadily falling costs. In the short term, algae will continue to be used in niche applications such as cosmetics, food, and fertilizers. In the long run, as the cost reductions continue, algae might become a major source of fuel for transportation and other applications.
Biohydrogen may produced by steam reforming of methane (biogas) produced by anaerobic digestion of organic waste. In the latter process, natural gas and steam react to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
In this world of concerns regarding depletion of fossil fuels, pollution control and other factors leading to threat of man kind survival a way of producing biodiesel from algae which can be a source of alternative fuel. Lots of methods and sources being used for producing biodiesel but from algae one can produce high amount of biodiesel depending on the type of species or strain selected and this way this is a viable and feasible method to produce biodiesel.....
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Microalgae as a Potential Source of Biofuels and its Current Advances_ Crimson publishers
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Sustainable production of renewable energy is passionately debated worldwide since it is progressively understood that first-generation biofuels are primarily produced from food crops. Mostly oilseeds do not contain enough amount of fat content to achieve targets for biofuel production. These concerns have increased the attention in developing second-generation biofuels produced from non-food feed stocks such as microalgae, which potentially offer high-fat content. The advantages of biofuel over fossil fuel are they are less toxic, biodegradable and lower emission greenhouse gases. This article reviews the current status of microalgae use for biodiesel production, including their cultivation, harvesting, and processing. The economic development of the world is hugely dependent on fossil fuel supplies which are constrained not only by partial availability but also generate high levels of pollution.
Because of the limited fossil fuel, concerted efforts have been started to search for alternative bio fuels like biodiesel, bio ethanol and since the diesel is being used massively in industrial commercial, fisheries, agriculture, and other sectors. So, the production and consumption of biodiesel from oil seeds crops have been getting renewed interest in recent years in India to overcome the drawbacks of oil from oilseed crops. Biodiesel produced from micro-algae has several benefits over the above resources due to higher algal biomass and oil yields and the need of non-arable land for its growth. Industrial and municipal wastewaters can be applied for farming of microalgal oil that can be used for the production of biodiesel to entirely displace petro diesel. The micro algal biomass has been reported to yield high oil contents and has the diesel production. Accordingly, a lot of R & D work has been initiated for the growth, harvesting, oil extraction and conversion to biodiesel.
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2. The World is in a Energy Crisis associated with irreversible
depletion of traditional sources of fossil fuels.
Sustainable liquid fuels are essential for infrastructure and
transportation.
Compared with other forms of Renewable Energy, Biofuels
allow energy to be chemically stored, and can also be used in
existing engines and transportation infrastructures.
The benefits of biofuels over traditional fuels include greater
energy security, reduced environmental impact, foreign
exchange savings, etc.
Biofuels from Algae:
◦ Potential to produce more biomass per unit area in a year than any other form of biomass
3. Algae (Latin: seaweed) are a large and diverse group of simple,
typically autotrophic eukaryotic organisms, ranging from
unicellular to multicellular forms.
◦ Simple: Their tissues are not organized into the many distinct organs found in land
plants.
◦ Autotrophic: Organisms that produce complex organic compounds from simple
inorganic molecules using energy from light.
◦ Eukaryotic: Organisms that contain cell nucleus. Examples of eukaryotic algae are
green algae (Chlorophyta) and diatoms (Bacillariophyta). Organism that do not
contain cell nucleus are prokaryotic such as cyanobacteria (commonly referred to as
blue-green algae).
In the past, Cyanobacteria was referred to as algae. Now they are classified as bacteria
because they have no cell nucleus.
Life on earth started with Cyanobacteria and algae. These organisms converted a Carbon
Dioxide rich atmosphere to an oxygen rich atmosphere by sucking out Carbon dioxide
and converting it into Oxygen. Will these organisms save the Earth once again?
Algae are dated back to approximately 3 billion years in the
Precambrian age (4600 Ma to 542 Ma; 88% of geological time).
They show a wide range of reproductive strategies, from asexual
cell division to complex forms of sexual reproduction.
The first plants on earth evolved from shallow freshwater algae.
4. Microalgae (microphytes) are microscopic algae that live in saline (oceans) or
freshwater environments. They can also be found on terrestrial ecosystems.
◦ Estimated 50,000 species exist.
They are unicellular species which exist individually, or in chains or groups.
Depending on the species, their sizes range from a few micrometers to a few
hundred micrometers.
◦ Microalgae do not have roots, stems and leaves.
◦ These microalgae produce half the atmospheric oxygen, and consume a lot of the Green House
Gasses.
Thus these micro-organisms convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to
algal biomass.
◦ These organisms also can produce carotenoids, antioxidants, fatty acids, enzymes, polymers,
peptides, toxins and sterols.
The chemical composition of microalgae depends on species and cultivation
conditions.
◦ Can achieve desired products in microalgae to a large extent by changing environmental factors
such as temperature, illumination, pH, CO2 supply, salt and nutrients.
Microalgae constitute the basic food for numerous aquaculture species.
5. •Different Species contain different Chemical Compositions.
•Higher Lipid yields are desired.
•Many microalgae can be induced to accumulate substantial quantities of lipids.
•Conditions of growth are also important in determining what type of species to use.
•Generally Chlorella is a species preferred for lipid production .
6. Each different strain of algae has different fatty acids, therefore deciding on strain is
very complex.
Although the microalgae oil yield is strain-dependent, it is generally much greater than
other vegetable oil crops.
Figure shows that although oil content is similar for plants and algae, there are
significant variations in the overall biomass productivity and resulting oil yield with an
advantage for algae.
7.
8. Easy to cultivate and harvested within 10 days.
Grow with little attention and diverse locations.
High growth rate.
Use water unsuitable for human consumption.
◦ Treats waste water by removing harmful contaminates.
Easy to obtain nutrients.
Carbon neutral and carbon fixing.
◦ Removal of Carbon dioxide from industrial flue gasses while producing
biodiesel.
Can grow almost anywhere as long as there is carbon dioxide,
water and sunlight.
Algae oil extraction creates useful byproducts.
Microalgae can provide a feedstock for several different types of
renewable fuels such as biodiesel, ethanol, methane, hydrogen
and others.
◦ After extraction of oil, other by-products can be produced.
9. Microalgae differ from other biodiesel
feedstock in that they are
microorganisms living in liquid
environments.
◦ Thus with particular cultivation, harvesting, and
processing techniques.
Processes for biodiesel production from
microalgae include:
1. Production unit where Cells are grown.
2. Followed by separation the cells from the growing
media
3. Lipid extraction.
4. Production of biodiesel or other biofuels.
Traditionally biodiesel produced through
transesterification reaction
Other possibilities for biofuels production
are being pursued.
◦ Pyrolysis (thermal cracking
◦ And others
10.
11. Is the key step that determines the economic
viability of the process.
Several criteria must be considered for
cultivation site:
◦ Water Supply/demand and chemistry; land
topography, geology; climate/weather conditions;
access to nutrients.
◦ Also determine if will use Open/closed systems.
Use most efficient species for Cultivation
conditions.
12. Microalgae are adapted to scavenge their
environments for resources.
◦ They can grow under different conditions.
◦ Different strains grow more efficiently under different
conditions.
Microalgae double their biomass within 24 h.
Microalgae have a trade-off between growth and oil
content.
◦ Higher growth results lower oil content.
Several Factors controlling growth and composition:
◦ Abiotic factors: light, temperature, nutrient concentration,
O2, CO2, pH, salinity and toxic chemicals.
◦ Biotic factors: pathogens, competition from other algae
◦ Operational factors: shear produced by mixing, dilution
rate, depth, harvest frequency, etc.
13. Microalgae cultivation using sunlight energy can
be carried out in open or covered ponds/lakes or
closed photobioreactors (PBRs), based on tubular,
flat plate or other designs.
◦ Closed Systems are much more expensive and also hard
to Scale Up.
Nutrients can be provided through runoff water
from nearby land areas or by channeling the
water from sewage/water treatment plants.
◦ Water, nutrients and CO2 are controlled, while Oxygen is
removed.
Algal cultures consist of a single or several
specific strains optimized for producing the
desired product.
14. Open ponds are the oldest and simplest systems for mass cultivation of
microalgae.
◦ Are shallow ponds.
Pond is designed in a raceway configuration.
◦ Paddlewheel circulates and mixes the algal cells and nutrients.
System is operated in a continuous mode.
◦ The fresh feed is added in front of the paddlewheel, and algal broth is harvested behind the
paddlewheel through the loop.
Productivity is affected by contamination with unwanted algae and
micro-organisms that feed on algae.
Are economically more favorable than others, but raise the issues of
land use cost, water availability, and appropriate climatic conditions.
15. Closed Pond systems are the same as Open Pond systems except that they
can control the environment better
◦ Creates a GHG.
Photobioreactors have the ability to produce algae while performing
beneficial tasks, such as scrubbing power plant flue gasses or removing
nutrients from wastewater.
◦ Also offer a closed culture environment which is protected from direct fallout, relatively safe from
invading micro-organisms compared to an open system.
◦ Photobioreactors have higher efficiency and biomass concentration (2-5 g/L), shorter harvest time
(2-4 weeks) than open pounds.
Closed Systems consist of numerous designs: tubular, flat-plated,
rectangular, continued stirred reactors, etc.
Tubular Photobioreactor: Growth medium circulates from a reservoir to the
reactor and back to the reservoir.
16.
17. Harvesting the algae from the tank and separating
the oil from the algae is hard and energy intensive.
◦ Constitutes 20-30% cost of algal biomass.
Conventional processes:
◦ Sedimentation (low quality)
◦ Concentration through centrifugation (high quality)
◦ Foam fractionation
◦ (Ultra)Filtration
◦ Flocculation*
Used to aggregate cells.
◦ Ultrasonic separation
18. Processing is highly specific and depends on the
desired products.
Drying is important to increase shelf-life of final
product
Extraction after drying.
◦ Mechanical: homogenizers, bead mills, ultrasounds etc.
◦ Non-Mechanical: freezing, organic solvents, acid, etc.
For biodiesel Production: lipids and fatty acids
have to be extracted
◦ For lipids a solvent extraction is normally done directly
from the lyophilized biomass.
Solvents used: hexane, ethanol (can extract contaminants).
◦ Using Ultrasound can greatly increase extraction time
and yield.
19. Microalgae biomass is generally more expensive than
growing crops.
◦ PBRs have the potential to yield 19,000 to oil per acre per year.
(200x more than plant/vegetable oils. 57,000 Liters of oil)
The theoretical calculated cost of algae oil per barrel is
only $20. While that of oil in the U.S. is $100.
◦ Assumptions:
◦ Oil supply is based on the theoretical claims that 47,000 -308,000
liter/hectare/year of oil could be produced using algae. (Culture of algae can
yield 30-50% oil).
NOTE: None of the projected algae and oil yields have
been achieved.
◦ Reason: Require large quantities of fertilizer, water and fossil energy inputs
in addition to consistent light and temperatures.
20. Compared to with second generation biofuels, algal
fuels (third generation fuels) have a higher yield.
◦ They can produce 30-100x more energy per hectare compared to terrestrial
crops.
Algae can produce different biofuels: bioethanol,
vegetable oils, biodesiel, bio-oil, bio-syngas, and bio-
hydrogen.
Production of these biofuels can be coupled with flue
gas CO2 improvement, wastewater treatment, and the
production of high-value chemicals.
21. Chemical processes include transesterification.
◦ Products: Biodiesel
Thermochemical processes include liquefaction,
hydrogenation, pyrolysis and gasification.
◦ Products: Bio-Oil and Gas
Biochemical processes
◦ Products: Bioethanol, Biomethane, Bio-Hydrogen
22. Produces Biodiesel.
◦ Biodiesel is a mixture of fatty acid alkyl esters obtained by transesterification.
Composed of methyl esters of long-chain fatty acids.
◦ Biodiesel refers to any diesel equivalent biofuel made from Renewable Source.
Transesterification is multiple step reaction, including
three steps in series.
◦ Triglycerides are converted to diglycerides, then diglycerides are converted to
monoglycerides.
◦ Monoglycerides are then converted to esters (biodiesel) and glycerol (by-
product).
23. Oil or fat and a short chain alcohol (usually methanol) are used
as reagents in the presence of a catalyst (usually NaOH).
◦ A molar ratio of 6:1 (alcohol:oil) is used to complete reaction accurately.
Theoretical is 3:1.
◦ Feedstock mass input to biodiesel mass output is 1:1.
1 kg of oil results in about 1 kg of biodiesel.
◦ Scenedesmus obliquus is considered a good species for biodiesel
production.
Contains mainly saturated and mono-unsaturated fatty acids, which give it
high oxidative stability.
◦ Also, Neochlris oleoabunadans and Nannochloropis sp. are good species
for biofuel production because of high oil content.
24.
25. Thermochemical liquefaction can convert wet biomass to liquid
fuel at 575 K and 10 MPa (CO/H2) using a catalyst such as
sodium carbonate. (Appell et al.)
◦ Biomass is converted to liquefied products through a complex sequence of
physical structure and chemical changes.
◦ Biomass is decomposed into small molecules. These molecules are
unstable and reactive, and can repolymerize into oily compounds with
varying MW distribution.
Direct liquefaction of microalgae by dichloromethane extraction.
◦ Performed in an aqueous solution of alkali salt at 575 K and 10 MPa.
◦ Use Autoclave with mechanical mixing.
◦ 37 % oil yield (Organic basis) from Dunaliella tertiolecta
The Oil had a viscosity of 150 to 330 MPa s and a Heating Value of 36 MJ/kg.
Net Energy Producer
◦ Another study obtained a max yield of 64 % dry wt. basis of oil.
(Botryococcus braunii).
26. Liquefaction of algal cells by hexane
extraction can also be done.
27. Conversion of microalgae (Chlorella pyrenoidosa) to liquid
products was also developed.
◦ Algal hydrogenation was performed batch wise, using an
autoclave under high temperature and pressure conditions in the
presence of a catalyst and a solvent.
Results indicated that Algae was converted to
Hydrocarbons.
◦ Conditions:
Temp: 400-430 Celsius
Retention Time: 200 min
Pressure: 1000-2250 Psig
Catalyst: Cobalt Molybdate
Oil Yields of 46.7 wt% achieved.
◦ 10 wt% liquid and 34 wt% HC rich gas obtained.
Higher temperature and time resulted in higher yield.
Max yield at pressure of 1200 Psig
28. Pyrolysis at different temperatures was done
on Microalgae to produce bio-oils
◦ The higher the temperature the higher the oil yield.
From Previous work.
29. Similar Experiments done on
Increasing temperature
◦ Used Mosses as comparison
Bio-oil yields from algae were higher.
HHVs were higher quality for algae
21.5-24.8 MJ/kg-Moss (PC/TT)
32.5 MJ/kg for Algae (CF)
39.7 MJ/kg for Microalgae (CP)
Fossil Oil – 42 MJ/kg
31. Bioethanol can be made from Algae through a
Biochemical Process similar to corn ethanol.
Algal biomass is ground, and the starch is
converted by enzymes to sugar.
Sugars are converted to ethanol by yeast.
32. Process for Converting Algae into Ethanol:
◦ 1. Growing starch-accumulating, filament-forming, or colony-
forming algae in an aqua culture environment
2. Harvesting the grown algae to form a biomass
3. Initiating decay of the biomass
Initiating decay means that the biomass is treated in such a way that the cellular
structure of the biomass begins to decay and release carbohydrates.
4. Contacting the decaying biomass with a yeast capable of fermenting it
to form a fermentation solution
5. Separating the resulting ethanol from the fermentation solution.
Some prominent strains of algae that have a high carbohydrate
content:
◦ Sargassum
◦ Glacilaria
◦ Prymnesium parvum
◦ Euglena gracilis
33. Meier proposed the production of methane gas from
the carbohydrate fraction of algae cells.
Methane gas as well as carbon dioxide can be
produced by anaerobic digestion of bio-wastes in the
absence of air.
◦ This type of gas is referred to as biogas.
◦ Biogas is a valuable fuel which is produced in digesters
filled with feedstock.
◦ Digestion takes a period from10 days to a few weeks.
Algal biomass can be used for biogas production.
◦ Digestion of algal biomass produces carbon dioxide,
methane and ammonia.
◦ Some microalgae have been explored as potential methane
sources.
◦ Anaerobic digestion for biogas appear to be uneconomic.
34. Hydrogen from algae can be produced
under specific conditions.
◦ Direct Photolysis:
Photosynthesis and water-splitting are coupled,
resulting in the simultaneous production of
hydrogen and oxygen.
Is possible when the resulting hydrogen and
oxygen are continuously flushed away.
Safety risk, high costs to separate hydrogen and
oxygen.
◦ Hydrogen can also be made from anaerobic
fermentation of Algae via hydrogenase.
The reactions are similar to electrolysis involving
splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen.
35. Carbon Dioxide Capture
◦ Flue gases from power plants are responsible for more than 7% of total world emissions.
Microalgae can use Carbon Dioxide for growth. Thus reducing emissions.
10-50x better fixation of gas compared to terrestrial plants.
Wastewater management.
◦ Microalgae will use the contaminants in waste water to clean the water.
Microalgae will consume Sulfur and Nitrogen for growth.
Average removal efficiency or 72% nitrogen and 28% sulfur.
Fine chemicals and bioactive compound
◦ Depending on microalgae, various high-value chemical compounds may be extracted.
Pigments, antioxidants, Beta-carotenes, polysaccharides, triglycerides, fatty acids, and vitamins.
Human health.
◦ Have protein quality higher than other vegetable sources.
◦ Contain several different sterols (for cardiovascular disease).
◦ Antioxidants.
◦ Omega fatty acids.
◦ Extraction of lutein which helps for degenerative diseases.
◦ S.platensis and Spirulina maxima re the most popular edible algae
Use as healthy food since it boosts immune system, increase LA bacteria in GI tract.
Many civilizations used such food as a diet.
Animal feed
◦ Normally used for aquatic animals.
36. Current companies marketing that they are close to
making biodiesel from algae economical within the next
few years
◦ Have limited technical expertise
Limitations concern the optimization of:
◦ Harvesting
◦ Oil extraction processes
◦ Supply of Carbon Dioxide
◦ Also, light, nutrients, temperature, turbulence, Oxygen and
Carbon dioxide levels need to be optimal.
Need to reduce costs.
◦ Using cheap Carbon Dioxide sources. Use of flue gas.
◦ Use wastewater.
◦ Optimal conditions.
◦ GMO’s to increase oil yields.
Considerable investments needed.