Microalgae for biodiesel production and other applications: A review

摘要: Sustainable production of renewable energy is being hotly debated globally since it increasingly understood that first generation biofuels, primarily produced from food crops and mostly oil seeds are limited in their ability to achieve targets for biofuel production, climate change mitigation economic growth. These concerns have increased the interest developing second biofuels non-food feedstocks such as microalgae, which potentially offer greatest opportunities longer term. This paper reviews current status microalgae use biodiesel including cultivation, harvesting, processing. The species most used presented main advantages described comparison with other available feedstocks. various aspects associated design units described, giving an overview state development algae cultivation systems (photo-bioreactors open ponds). Other potential applications products also biological sequestration CO 2 , wastewater treatment, human health, additive, aquaculture.