A Brief Literature Overview of Various Routes to Biorenewable Fuels from Lipids for the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bio-products (NAABB) Consortium [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 662.8 Other fuels
• Thông tin xuất bản: Richland, Wash. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.) ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2011
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: PDFN
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 265506
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. 29 energy planning, policy and economy; 3. Algae; 4. Biofuels; 5. Diesel fuels

Tóm tắt

Renewable methods of producing transportation fuels are currently the focus of numerous large research efforts across the globe. Renewable fuel produced from algal lipids is one aspect of this research that could have profound implications on future transportation fuel requirements. However, technical challenges remain in several areas of algal-lipid-based fuels. These challenges include the identification and development of robust and productive algal species as well as extraction methods to recover the produced lipids. Not the least of these technical challenges is the conversion of the algae lipids to fungible fuels. This brief literature review focuses primarily on state-of-the-art ?downstream? applications of producing fuel from fats and lipids, which can be applied to ongoing research with algae-derived lipids.