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Biocrude oil ALGAE
INNOVATION: Researchers find

way to turn algae into fuel
This technology could also be applied beyond algae and include a variety of
microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, or any microbial-derived oil.
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Packed inside the microorganisms growing in ponds, lakes
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and rivers are lipids, which are fatty acid molecules
containing oil that can be extracted to power diesel engines.
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When extracted, the lipids are called biocrude. That makes
organisms such as microalgae an attractive form of This Week This Month
biomass, organic matter that can be used as a sustainable
fuel source. R Kesavan
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of HPCL
These lipids are also found in a variety of other single-cell
organisms such as yeasts used in cheese processing. But
ONGC gets
the problem with using algae for biomass has always been single bid from
the amount of energy it takes to pull the lipids or biocrude Schlumberger
for oil field
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production
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Right now, in order to extract the oil-rich lipids from the firms selected
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algae, scientists have to pull the water from the algae first, oil and gas
leaving either a slurry or dry powder of the biomass. That is blocks under DSF-II
the most energy-intensive part of the process. That residue
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However, this requires so much energy to extract the water auctions
from the plants at the beginning of the process, turning

algae into biofuel has thus far not been a practical, efficient
or economical process.
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taken out and can be recycled to be used again in the
process, and this technology could also be applied to a
variety of microorganisms such as bacteria, and fungi" said
Swomitra Mohanty, a co-author on the paper.
This technology could also be applied beyond algae and

include a variety of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi,
or any microbial-derived oil, Mohanty added.
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