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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"algae biofuel"”.
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Cascaded High Voltage Converter with Variable Control for Pulsed Electric Field Applications
… for fossil fuels is now the strategy. Algae biofuel matches fossil fuel performance while also meeting the criteria for renewable energy. The focus now shifts to finding methods for commercially producing algae biofuel. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to develop a system that …
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Effects of Raceway Pond Water and Nutrient Recycling on Microalgae Production and Harvesting
<p>To be environmentally sustainable, algae biofuel production requires extensive recycling of water and nutrients during algae cultivation. Such recycling can be in the form of reuse of external wastewaters, such as from municipal sewers, but, to achieve significant biofuels production, internal …
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The Effect of Pretreatment Methods on Methane Yield and Nutrient Solubilization During Anaerobic Digestion of Microalgae
… biomass is a candidate feedstock for biofuel production. To improve the sustainability of algae biofuel production, following biofuel recovery, the biomass nutrients should be recycled for additional algae growth. Anaerobic digestion of algae or oil-extracted algae is a means of …
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Water and Nutrient Recycling in High Rate Algae Ponds Fed in Primary Treated Municipal Wastewater
<p>Algal biofuels present a promising future alternative to petroleum based fuels. Water nutrient recycling is a key step to increase the sustainability of algae biofuel production facilities. This thesis discusses the process of nutrient and water recycling in high rate algae raceway ponds (HRAP) …
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Regrowth of Chlorella sorokiniana on Recycled Media with Replenished Nutrients
<p>Growth media recycling during algae cultivation is necessary to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of biofuel production from algae feedstocks. Without recycling media, the cost of algae based biofuel production would be prohibitively high and large scale algae based biofuel production …
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Improving algal biofuel production through nutrient recycling and characterization of photosynthetic anomalies in mutant algae species
… carbon dioxide concentration in the environment. Algae represent a promising new source of feedstock for the production of renewable, carbon neutral, transportation fuels. However, significant economic and technical challenges remain to be solved for scaling-up of algal biofuel production. This …
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Synergetic Algal Infrastructure: Investigating the Benefits of Algae Production in an Airport Environment
This thesis will explore how algae can perform an integral function in sustaining airport environmental practices. Airports are dynamic connectors of our landscape that provide transportation, jobs and are an essential element in our infrastructure. De-icing aircraft strategies have contributed to …
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Identifying the dominant physical processes for mixing in full-scale raceway tanks
Biodiesels from microalgae are a promising alternative to fossil fuels with a number of unique benefits over other alternative fuel sources. However, to date, their viability in the fuels market remains infeasible due in part to a number of inefficiencies in the cultivation process. This has led to …
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Microalgal swimming in fluid environments: experimental and numerical investigations
… commercial production of microalgal oil-derived biofuel. For kinetic response studies of Dunaliella, flow visualization and quantification techniques such as Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Digital Holographic microscopy were employed. The two-dimensional PIV results showed that Dunaliella …
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Harvesting natural algal blooms for concurrent biofuel production and hypoxia mitigation
… and conversion of the harvested biomass into biofuels. An engineering model was developed to compare the energy efficiency of different harvesting methods and biofuel conversion techniques. The modeling data was largely compiled from a variety of literature sources, but was also supplemented …