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Development and validation of a screening procedure of microalgae for biodiesel production: Application to the genus of marine microalgae Nannochloropsis
- Source :
- Bioresource Technology, Bioresource Technology, Elsevier, 2015, 177, pp.224-232. ⟨10.1016/j.biortech.2014.11.068⟩, Bioresource Technology, 2015, 177, pp.224-232. ⟨10.1016/j.biortech.2014.11.068⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2015.
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Abstract
- International audience; Nannochloropsis has emerged as a promising alga for biodiesel production. However, the genus consists of 6 species and hundreds of strains making strain selection a challenge. Furthermore, oil productivity is instrumental to economic viability of any algal strain for industrial production, which is dependent on growth rate and oil content. In most cases, these two parameters have been studied independently. Thus, the goal of this study is to provide a combined method for evaluating strain performance in specially designed photobioreactors together with an in-depth lipidomic analyses. The nine strains of Nannochloropsis tested showed considerable variations in productivity and lipidomics highlighting the importance of strain selection. Finally, Nannochloropsis gaditana CCMP527 and Nannochloropsis salina CCMP537 emerged as the two most promising strains, with an oil content of 37 and 27 dry wt% after 11-day nitrogen starvation, respectively, resulting in TAG productivity of 13 × 10−3 and 18 × 10−3 kg m−3 d−1, respectively.
- Subjects :
- Aquatic Organisms
Environmental Engineering
Time Factors
[SDV.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Photobioreactor
Bioengineering
Mass Spectrometry
Photobioreactors
Bioenergy
Botany
Bioreactor
Microalgae
[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering
Food science
Biomass
Waste Management and Disposal
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Triglycerides
Biodiesel
biology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fatty Acids
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
Lipids
Kinetics
Productivity (ecology)
Biofuel
Biodiesel production
Biofuels
Nannochloropsis
Stramenopiles
Biotechnology
Chromatography, Liquid
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09608524
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bioresource Technology, Bioresource Technology, Elsevier, 2015, 177, pp.224-232. ⟨10.1016/j.biortech.2014.11.068⟩, Bioresource Technology, 2015, 177, pp.224-232. ⟨10.1016/j.biortech.2014.11.068⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8cec0a70bb51e6e6e15b660728448b38