Role of microalgae in achieving sustainable development goals and circular economy

AG Olabi, N Shehata, ET Sayed, C Rodriguez… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) set out 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. These goals highlight key objectives …

An overview of potential oleaginous microorganisms and their role in biodiesel and omega-3 fatty acid-based industries

A Patel, D Karageorgou, E Rova, P Katapodis, U Rova… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microorganisms are known to be natural oil producers in their cellular compartments.
Microorganisms that accumulate more than 20% w/w of lipids on a cell dry weight basis are …

Heterogeneous catalytic transesterification for biodiesel production: Feedstock properties, catalysts and process parameters

DT Oyekunle, M Barasa, EA Gendy, SK Tiong - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, biodiesel has attracted increasing interest as a substitute for fossil fuels.
However, the cost of producing biodiesel is far greater than that of fossil fuels. As a means of …

Biodiesel production from lignocellulosic biomass using oleaginous microbes: prospects for integrated biofuel production

AD Chintagunta, G Zuccaro, M Kumar… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biodiesel is an eco-friendly, renewable, and potential liquid biofuel mitigating greenhouse
gas emissions. Biodiesel has been produced initially from vegetable oils, non-edible oils …

A complete characterization of microalgal biomass through FTIR/TGA/CHNS analysis: An approach for biofuel generation and nutrients removal

M Arif, Y Li, MM El-Dalatony, C Zhang, X Li… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
A comprehensive bio-composition investigation of microalgal species is essential for
categorizing their applications. In this study, nutrients uptake followed by complete biomass …

Insights into the genetic and metabolic engineering approaches to enhance the competence of microalgae as biofuel resource: a review

A Brar, M Kumar, T Soni, V Vivekanand… - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional fuel resources are overburden with speedy global energy demand which
ensued the urgent need of alternate energy resources. Biofuel generation efficiency of …

Biodiesel feedstocks selection strategies based on economic, technical, and sustainable aspects

M Anwar - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
The interest in sustainable energy sources such as biodiesel is growing due to
unpredictable fossil fuel prices, depletion of their origins, inconsistent supply, geopolitical …

Lipids from yeasts and fungi: physiology, production and analytical considerations

M Athenaki, C Gardeli… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The last years there has been a significant rise in the number of publications in the
international literature that deal with the production of lipids by microbial sources (the 'single …

[HTML][HTML] Bioprocessing of volatile fatty acids by oleaginous freshwater microalgae and their potential for biofuel and protein production

A Patel, E Krikigianni, U Rova… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
To address the issue of high organic carbon costs in heterotrophic cultivation of microalgae,
we evaluated the hypotheses by employing microalgae as a biorefinery for proteins and …

Microalgal-based bioenergy: strategies, prospects, and sustainability

S Choudhary, S Tripathi, KM Poluri - Energy & Fuels, 2022 - ACS Publications
The fuel crisis with the slumping reserves of fossil fuels and the exponential increase in the
demand of energy necessitate a paradigm shift to a more sustainable and eco-friendly …