Overview of Marine Microalgae Biomass:

Posted by Payal Rashtogi
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May 17, 2021
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Algae quickly established themselves as one of the most promising long-term, renewable sources of biomass and oils for fuel, fruit, feed and other co-products. Marine microalgae biomass has many advantages over traditional biomass, including higher productivity, the use of non-productive land, saline waters and the reuse of CO2 from plant flue-gas.

They can be used to make food, vitamins, fodder, and bio-fuel, fine chemicals, and a variety of biotechnological applications are only a few examples. The current analysis focuses on strain collection, cultivation, strain enhancement, and biotechnological potentials of the microalgae biomass.

New Strain Selection:

Purification from various conditions must be screencast for biofuel processing, storage of desired compounds (high lipid strains), high-value products (unsaturated fatty acids), salt and temperature tolerance, predation resistance, and ease of harvesting. An enrichment culture using complex selection pressures are only a few of the techniques used to isolate phycocyanin algae.

Harvest of Biomass:

Biomass harvesting is a technique that reports for 15-20% of production costs. Because of the small size of algae and their low concentration in the culture medium, cell recovery is more difficult. Since there are many species of algae with different characteristics such as form, scale, and motility that affect their settling to a large extent, they cannot achieve harvesting in a single process. Filtering is the most widely used technique for harvesting algae service in both lab and Research and development settings. Algae services are widely used as aquaculture feeds and processed by centrifugation to produce focus with a long shelf.

Important Considerations in Commercializing Microalgae:

In recent years, commercially manufactured biodiesel is not made from microalgae. One of the most difficult tasks is replicating closed laboratory conditions on a wide scale. That is recognized by producing oil in the lab is simpler, and many companies are trying to commercialize microalgal biodiesel.

Bottom Line:

In terms of algal biomass production, several projects are currently underway in many countries. It may also flourish in sewage containing heavy metals and other chemicals that are bio-absorbed.
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