{"id":3590,"date":"2011-08-11T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2015-01-13T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T11:53:49","slug":"microalgae-or-macroalgae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/microalgae-or-macroalgae.html","title":{"rendered":"Microalgae or Macroalgae?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adapted from the Algae Fuels Community @ CleanTick &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/algaesmiles\/pages\/potential-of-macroalgae-as-a-biofuel-feedstock\">http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/algaesmiles\/pages\/potential-of-macroalgae-as-a-biofuel-feedstock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macroalgae or seaweeds represent a diverse group of eukaryotic, photosynthetic marine organisms. Unlike microalgae, which are unicellular, the macroalgal species are multicellular and possess plant-like characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>These photosynthetic organisms abundant in oceans and coastal waters. They are a potent biofuel feedstock, they have high amounts of carbohydrates (that can be converted into liquid and gas fuels) and low amounts of lipids.<\/p>\n<p>At the present moment, commercial market exists for macroalgae as a food or as feedstock for polysaccharide and hydrocolloid extraction, which is relatively small when compared with the scale of cultivation needed for macroalgae to be considered a significant contributor to the biomass .<\/p>\n<p>The resource potential for using macroalgae for biofuels is quite high. Research studies reveal that the ability of the world\u2019s oceans to produce marine biomass as a biofuel feedstock supply is largely untapped .<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Seaweed Energy Solutions AS (SES), a Norwegian based company, built on the development of large-scale offshore cultivation of seaweed and conversion of the same into Biogas and Bioethanol. Seaweed Energy Solutions has patented the first ever modern structure, &#8216;the Seaweed Carrier&#8217;, a breakthrough compared to previous cultivation methods. The Seaweed Carrier, a sheet-like structure basically copies a very large seaweed plant, moving freely back and forth through the sea from a single mooring on the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<p>Similar efforts are being pursued by various research institutes and a few companies, this page at the Algae Fuels community @ CleanTick provides the details of the efforts that are being carried out to use macroalgae for fuel.<\/p>\n<p>For those of the scientific bent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/algaesmiles\/pages\/potential-of-macroalgae-as-a-biofuel-feedstock\">http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/algaesmiles\/pages\/potential-of-macroalgae-as-a-biofuel-feedstock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleantech.gallery\/small-algae-with-great-potential\/\">Small algae with great potential<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adapted from the Algae Fuels Community @ CleanTick &#8211; http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/algaesmiles\/pages\/potential-of-macroalgae-as-a-biofuel-feedstock Macroalgae or seaweeds represent a diverse group of eukaryotic, photosynthetic marine organisms. Unlike microalgae, which are unicellular, the macroalgal species are multicellular and possess plant-like characteristics. These photosynthetic organisms abundant in oceans and coastal waters. They are a potent biofuel feedstock, they have high amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-ethanol","category-seaweed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","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=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5263,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}