{"id":5105,"date":"2014-10-07T04:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2014-10-07T04:50:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:50:36","slug":"bioethanol-from-red-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/bioethanol-from-red-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Bioethanol from Red Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/red-algae.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/red-algae-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"red algae\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/red-algae-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/red-algae-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>A biotechnology research team from University of Korea has found a clue to make ethanol from red algae.<\/p>\n<p>Red alga, rich in carbohydrates, is an ideal source of bioethanol. The major ingredient of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/algae\/types\/red_algae\/red_algae.html\" target=\"_blank\">red algae<\/a> is 3, 6- Anhydro-L-galactose (L-AHG), whose metabolic pathway is not yet being mapped.<\/p>\n<p>Korean researchers have found that <em>Vibrio vulnificus<\/em>, a colon bacillus lives on L-AHG and breaks down the red algae. The new colon bacillus with the help of new fermentation enzymes is able to produce 24% more ethanol than the existing colon bacillus.<\/p>\n<p>This technology is suitable to produce biofuel and bioplastics using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/still-a-new-technology-to-convert-algae-biomass-to-biofuel.html\" target=\"_blank\">algae biomass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesskorea.co.kr\/article\/6629\/algae-based-biodiesel-korean-research-team-discovers-clue-produce-3rd-gen-biofuel-red\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biotechnology research team from University of Korea has found a clue to make ethanol from red algae. Red alga, rich in carbohydrates, is an ideal source of bioethanol. The major ingredient of red algae is 3, 6- Anhydro-L-galactose (L-AHG), whose metabolic pathway is not yet being mapped. Korean researchers have found that Vibrio vulnificus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,42,615,600,576],"tags":[640,172],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-ethanol","category-algae-fuel-research","category-biofuel","category-research-2","category-south-korea","category-university-research","tag-algae-fuel","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5108,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}