{"id":3568,"date":"2011-08-05T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2011-08-05T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:51:11","slug":"a-centrifuge-uses-48-8-of-the-total-energy-consumption-during-algal-biofuel-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/a-centrifuge-uses-48-8-of-the-total-energy-consumption-during-algal-biofuel-production.html","title":{"rendered":"A centrifuge uses 48.8% of the total energy consumption during algal biofuel production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvesting microalgae is difficult as well as energy intensive. This is  mainly because the most rapidly growing algal species are frequently  very small and often motile unicells which are the most difficult to  harvest. Moreover, the conventional harvesting methods used for  harvesting microalgae &#8211; such as centrifuges, filtration and flotation  equipments &#8211; are energy-intensive.<\/p>\n<p>A study claimed that a centrifuge  uses 48.8% of the total energy consumption during algal biofuel  production. Thus, the major challenge lies in maintaining an effective  interaction between the development of cost-efficient harvesting  technologies and the selection of algal species for mass culture.<\/p>\n<p>More &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/franc\/pages\/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation\/updates\/14461\">http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/franc\/pages\/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation\/updates\/14461<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvesting microalgae is difficult as well as energy intensive. This is mainly because the most rapidly growing algal species are frequently very small and often motile unicells which are the most difficult to harvest. Moreover, the conventional harvesting methods used for harvesting microalgae &#8211; such as centrifuges, filtration and flotation equipments &#8211; are energy-intensive. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-oil-production","category-algae-harvesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}