How biofuel is produced Biofuel made from microalgae is currently one of the most promising fossil fuel alternatives to sustain the world’s energy demand. This is no easy task, especially having ...

A group of researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil have grown microalgae under controlled conditions in a laboratory in order to use their metabolites, especially lipids, ...

"Mass production of microalgae is a research focus owing to their promising aspects for sustainable food, biofunctional compounds, nutraceuticals, and biofuel feedstock," says Professor Tang.

After that, they added microalgae that use items produced during fermentation to generate lipids useful for making biofuel. Finally, scientists tested the effects of nine surfactants on this ...

Microalgae of the species Monoraphidium contortum have the ability to remove antibiotic residues from water, especially ...

The growth of the microalgae market is driven by the increasing demand for environmentally friendly and sustainable biofuel and wastewater treatment production solutions. Government efforts to ...

Viridos is a biofuel startup that wants to take clean ... Viridos' plan is to create renewable energy through the use of microalgae to create the kind of dense, resource-intensive fuel that ...

Its first investment from this fund is a $5 million round that will go to Viridos, a microalgae biofuel company based in California. Viridos bioengineers microalgae in large vessels containing ...

Techna-X’s subsidiary Techna-X AeroBeidou has partnered with two other companies to farm microalgae and produce algae biofuel. Techna-X Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Techna-X AeroBeidou Sdn ...

New research suggests, however, that biodiesel derived from microalgae may actually emit more carbon during production and use than petroleum-based diesel. The biofuel’s poor performance is due ...

In a second chamber, the microalgae and E ... low-cost products like biofuels, Jin said. "We can make maybe 1,000 tons or 10 tons of our product this way, but I don't think we can make gigatons ...