Algae fuel production

One reason why interest in aquatic biomass has developed so rapidly, and with such driving force, is that algae are better converters of solar energy (T = 6-8% under natural conditions, up to 9-10% in bioreactors) than are terrestrial plants (T = 1.5—2.2%), and also have a better potential for fuel production diversification... 

Ben-Amotz A Large-scale open algae ponds, NREL-AFOSR joint workshop on algal oil for jet fuel production, 2008. 

Fang, S.-C., 2014. Chapter 3-Metabolic engineering and molecular biotechnology of microalgae for fuel production. In Soccol, C.R., Pandey, A., Lee, D.-J., Chisti, Y. (Eds.), Biofuels from Algae. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 47—65. 

Halogenated phenols, particularly 2-bromo-, 2,4-dibromo-, and 2,4,6-tribromophenol, have been identified in automotive emissions and are the products of thermal reactions involving the dibromoethane fuel additive (Muller and Buser 1986). It could therefore no longer be assumed that such compounds are exclusively the products of biosynthesis by marine algae. 

The list of plants, by-products and waste materials that can potentially be used as feedstock is almost endless. Major resources in biomass include agricultural crops and their waste by-products, lignocellulosic products such as wood and wood waste, waste from food processing and aquatic plants and algae and effluents produced in the human habitat. Moderately dried wastes such as wood residue, wood scrap and urban garbage can be directly burned as fuel. Energy from water-containing biomass... 

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