1. Microalgae as the Third Generation Biofuel
... generation of organic carbon supplies such as glucose through photosynthesis (Chisti 2007). Brennan (2010) has shown higher productivity and generated volume of heterotrophic microalgae than the photoautotrophic methods. Miao and Wu (2006) examined the strain of C. protothecoides and reported their lipid content as high as 55% compared to the autotrophic organisms at only 15% with analogous conditions. Despite the possible higher ... results in increasing lipid accumulation of microalgae, and also causes the conversion of free fatty acids into triacylglycerol that is valuable in produci...
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