Bio-Diesel From Alge
Submitted by madnotes on May 21, 2008
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Bio-Diesel From Alge
Executive Summary
From 1978 to 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fuels Development funded a program to
develop renewable transportation fuels from algae. The main focus of the program, know as the Aquatic
Species Program (or ASP) was the production of biodiesel from high lipid-content algae grown in ponds,
utilizing waste CO2 from coal fired power plants. Over the almost two decades of this program,
tremendous advances were made in the science of manipulating the metabolism of algae and the
engineering of microalgae algae production systems. Technical highlights of the program are summarized
below:
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