Transportation Fuel from Algae

DOI

10.2991/icemc-17.2017.202How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Algae; Biofuel; Transportation fuel; Biodiesel; Hydrogen

Abstract

Algae biofuel has been recently seen as a very promising renewable energy sources to replace the gasoline as the transportation fuel. Federal government has planned to replace 30% of fossil fuels consumption in transportation sector with algae biofuel by 2020, and completely taking over conventional fuels by 2030. Behind the reasons why the algae was viewed so high are several tempting features made this microorganism an ideal future fuel source. The most important two are: 1) the astounding high energy production--up to 833 times of corn produced per year. 2) the low requirements for raw material and environment-- sewage or saline water is viable for cultivation. However, nowadays algae industry is still harassed by a serious technical problems-- contamination, which accounts for why this hopeful enterprise progressed so slowly. This paper include discussions about advantages of algae, availability, products, sustainability and economical feasibility.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wang Kailin
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BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Computer Science (ICEMC 2017)
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