Algae bio-diesel from Sunderbans, India
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Algae bio-diesel from Sunderbans, India
Indrani Dutta, Aug 2007
Sunderbans chosen as a site for proposed algae cultivation
KOLKATA: The Sundarbans delta, an archipelago of some 100 islands spread over 4,262 sq. km. on the Indian side of the Bay of Bengal, is becoming the incubator of ecology-friendly energy sources…
A new chapter will open if the efforts to try out algae cultivation in order to extract bio-diesel reaches fruition, in this remote deltaic marshland which is the world’s largest mangrove swamp. ….A Chennai-based company, Bio Max, is keen on setting up an algae cultivation project, on one of the uninhabited Sundarbans islands.
S.P. Gonchowdhury, director, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency, said the economics of algae as a bio-diesel source was better than jatropha which needed land for cultivation, while algae could be grown on marshy lands.
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:13 am
hello,
I am Haresh Dembla from Pune India. I want some information about oil from algae, like how many times a year it grows and how old algae we can use for oil? please write me at demblah2002@yahoo.com . thank you very much. Hary.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
hiiiiiiiiiiiii ,am studying t.y. biotech we have 2 do project of our level will this project suitable 4 me if we think of lab scale.help me mail me renukachavan110@gmail.com.suggest that i could do simply.
May 31st, 2010 at 1:15 pm
hi, i want to know that what all algae are surviving in hot desert of india
April 9th, 2011 at 10:12 am
Please tell me the procedure of identification of microalgae based on their lipid content and also the media compositon of microalgal faster growth.