Sustainable Environmental Technologies Group Leader Speaks on Algae Biofuels Future
Sukh Sidhu, sustainable environmental technologies group leader in the University of Dayton Research Institute’s energy and environmental engineering division, recently discussed the possibility of algae as an alternative fuel source with SOCHE Talks. Sidhu is part of a team at the University of Dayton Research Institute working on a a two-year, $980,000 Air Force pollution-reduction contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. As an oil crop, algae is hundreds of times more viable than corn, soybeans and canola, he said. “It is a readily available, prolific and inexpensive renewable resource that can clean our air and wastewater, address our fuel needs and serve as a food source,” he said. Those with the highest lipid contents – yield more than 14,000 gallons of oil per acre, 700 times the yield of corn.
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