Hi,
I want to know whether the freshwater algae gives higher yield than salt water algae. Anyone have practical experience?
Mike wrote:My friends and I are doing a science fair project on algae biofuels. But first we want to purchase a species of algae online. Could you suggest the best possible species, that produces a good amount of oil, and can reproduce quickly
Mike wrote:we can only extract using the chemical solvent method, since we have no access to a oil press. Also I want to know if it possible to use a centrifuge to extract the oil after dying up the and blending (using a blended) algae.
For me, this means that with some marine species of algae, if you remove them from seawater and plop them into fresh water, they will swell and burst open. For my purposes, that would allow the oil to be extracted easily.hogg wrote:Can anybody tell me what this is saying?:)
From Wikipedia:
Osmotic shock or osmotic stress is a sudden change in the solute concentration around a cell, causing a rapid change in the movement of water across its cell membrane. ... Alternatively, at low concentrations of solutes, water enters the cell in large amounts, causing it to swell and either burst ...
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