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Biodiesel Production from Micro-algae by Heterotrophic Fermentation

1. Introduction 

The concept of ‘algae for fuels’ has been extensively evaluated in the U.S. and many other nations over the past years. Challenge is that no large-scale biodiesel production by micro-algae is economically feasible because rapid growing algal cells were found to contain less amounts of lipids (< 20% of dry weight) and those algal cells accumulating high lipid content ( >40 of dry weight) exhibited little growth. 

2. Technology property

The results suggest that heterotrophic fermentation of the specific strain of C. protochecoides resulted in great increase of both cell growth rate and cell oil content (3-4 times) and cell density (15-25 times). It provides the feasibility of industrialization to produce second generation biodiesel from fermentation algae.

3 Innovations 

1.Algae fermentation technology opens up a new pathway to efficiently produce biodiesel from sugar, starch, organic waste water, CO2, etc. with industrial automation.

2. The increase in fermentation yield and lipid content improve significant economic benefits for the industrial production of this technology.

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