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Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel
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Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research
2014
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| author | Richardson, Christine |
| author2 | Harrison, STL |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5409 Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel Richardson, Christine Harrison, STL Bioprocess Engineering Includes abstract. Includes bibliographic references (leaves 113-119). While initially thought to be promising, crop based biofuels are an inadequate alternative to fossilenergy due to the unrealistic space requirement, competition with food crops for land use and greenhouse gas release on clearing for crop land several times greater than biofuels provide throughdisplacing fossil fuels, a factor inadequately accounted for in past studies. In contrast, biodiesel frommicroalgae is of interest due to the lower spatial requirements, much higher oil productivity, no requirement for arable land and rapid growth and harvesting cycles. To ensure the oversights of cropbased biofuels are not repeated, there is a need to explore the sustainability of an algal biorefinery in the context of biodiesel production in this early phase of process development. An integratedbiorefinery approach for the production of multiple products has been seen to improve the overallefficiency of biomass utilization in biofuel systems, contributing to both economic success and environmental sustainability and is of interest for microalgal biodiesel production 2014-07-31T11:14:21Z 2014-07-31T11:14:21Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5409 eng application/pdf Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Bioprocess Engineering Richardson, Christine Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel |
| title_full | Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel |
| title_fullStr | Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel |
| title_short | Investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel |
| title_sort | investigating the role of reactor design to maximise the environmental benefit of algal oil for biodiesel |
| topic | Bioprocess Engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5409 |
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