17.15. Advantage of Biodiesel Over Higher Plants
Algae from either eukaryotes or prokaryotes are wide diverse group of photosynthetic organisms and have attracted significant attention as renewable energy feedstocks due to their rapid growth rate, biomass production, and great potential to synthesize fatty acids which can be converted to biodiesel [131,132] when compared to oleaginous plants [133]. In addition, its oil content is usually between 10% and 50% of their dry cell weight and in some cases some species can produce 80% of oil under certain growth conditions [134,135].
Microalgae possess the following advantages over higher plants:
1. They grow at high rates and can synthesize and accumulate large quantities of neutral lipids (20–50% dry ...
Get Clean Energy for Sustainable Development now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
