{"id":5822,"date":"2016-02-26T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2016-03-05T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T10:07:17","slug":"energetic-feasibility-of-milking-process-for-algal-fuel-production-using-biofilm-photobioreactor-for-growth-of-microalgae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/energetic-feasibility-of-milking-process-for-algal-fuel-production-using-biofilm-photobioreactor-for-growth-of-microalgae.html","title":{"rendered":"Energetic Feasibility of Milking Process for Algal Fuel Production Using Biofilm Photobioreactor for Growth of Microalgae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Western Australia have performed an experiment to reduce the energy consumption for producing fuels from algae. The new technique also prevents following harvesting technique which is critical <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5038 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"images (4)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-4-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-4-45x45.jpg 45w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/images-4-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>in algae cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>The new method follows cultivation of microalgae on a biofilm photobioreactor. Preliminary energetic feasibility analysis have been carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Results show that for the process of milking of <em>Botryococcus braunii<\/em> using the biofilm photobioreactor for growth can be as high as 13 MJ produced\/MJ consumed. Thus use of biofilm for algal growth could be an important step towards the development of the sustainable and energetically feasible process for commercial scale algal fuel production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.informit.com.au\/documentSummary;dn=709715372669311;res=IELENG\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Western Australia have performed an experiment to reduce the energy consumption for producing fuels from algae. The new technique also prevents following harvesting technique which is critical in algae cultivation. The new method follows cultivation of microalgae on a biofilm photobioreactor. Preliminary energetic feasibility analysis have been carried out. Results show that for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,40,549,615],"tags":[647,279,199,136,640],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-cultivation","category-algae-fuel","category-photobioreactors-algae-cultivation","category-research-2","tag-algae","tag-algae-cultivation-2","tag-algae-fuel-research-2","tag-algae-research","tag-algae-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}