Scope of Algae As Third Generation Biofuels
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE REVIEW ARTICLE published: 11provided February by 2015 Frontiers - Publisher Connector BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00090 Scope of algae as third generation biofuels Shuvashish Behera, Richa Singh, Richa Arora, Nilesh Kumar Sharma, Madhulika Shukla and Sachin Kumar* Biochemical Conversion Division, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy, Kapurthala, Punjab, India Edited by: An initiative has been taken to develop different solid, liquid, and gaseous biofuels as the Antonio Trincone, Istituto di Chimica alternative energy resources. The current research and technology based on the third gen- Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy eration biofuels derived from algal biomass have been considered as the best alternative Reviewed by: bioresource that avoids the disadvantages of first and second generation biofuels. Algal Franz Goecke, Institute of biomass has been investigated for the implementation of economic conversion processes Microbiology A.S.C.R, Czech Republic producing different biofuels such as biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas, biohydrogen, and other Sankar Prasad Bhattacharya, Monash valuable co-products. In the present review, the recent findings and advance developments University, Australia Antonio Trincone, Istituto di Chimica in algal biomass for improved biofuel production have been explored.This review discusses Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale about the importance of the algal cell
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