Algae Extraction advice 3
Hello to all you oilgae enthusiasts, I am an undergrad and doing a research project on a photobioreactor using recycled material. So far the photobioreactor has been assembled using a 3.8L water jug filled with pure water and an aerator. Me and my research partner found some local algae along the ocean edge on the North Shore in Massachusetts. Hopefully our green algae will begin to blossom and when it does we are looking to extract the oil for fuel. We have some lab equipment at our disposal and were thinking of using a Soxhlet extractor to obtain the oil. What do you think? Any other ideas and what can be done with the rest of biomass?
Wed October 13 2010 11:21:44 PM by DT1984
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i think to start with, you can try Bligh and Dyer method using chloroform-methanol for lipid extraction.
Will do thanks for the input
is it possible to harvest the algae that grows
in my old pool for fuel? If so how do I go about doing so?