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Algae bio-diesel from Sunderbans, India

November 23rd, 2007 | 5 Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Energy-Companies

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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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  • Anonymous

    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.

  • renuka chavan

    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.

  • archana

    hi, i want to know that what all algae are surviving in hot desert of india

  • raj

    hey i want to know the process of the extraction, i m thinkin to make a project in it for ty bsc plz leave me a mail as soon as possible contact me on rajp132@gmail.com ll really appriciate your response toward ur support thanking u?

  • dhruti

    Please tell me the procedure of identification of microalgae based on their lipid content and also the media compositon of microalgal faster growth.


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