A meta-analytic review of species suitability and approaches to culture optimization for commercial biodiesel production from microalgal biomass.

O'Higgins, Linda; Huntley, Mark E.; Redalje, Donald G.; O'Kelly , Charles J.

A meta-analytic review of species suitability and approaches to culture optimization for commercial biodiesel production from microalgal biomass.

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Pre-ScreeningReport_A4.pdf(1.59 MB)

Date

2008-10-01

Authors

O'Higgins, Linda

Huntley, Mark E.

Redalje, Donald G.

O'Kelly , Charles J.

Publisher

Cellana Inc.

Abstract

The Pre-Screening component of the Cellana LLC biofuels project was concerned with the identification of the top 150 microalgal species/strains meeting baseline physiological criteria for economically feasible microalgal feedstock production (Chisti 2007; Huntley and Redalje 2007). Baseline selection criteria included an average specific growth rate of at least 1 cell division per day (i.e. 1.4 µ.d-1) and a minimum total intracellular lipid content of 20% of cell dry weight (Chisti 2007). More than 10,000 strains (including duplicates) from twelve international culture collections were examined using as a reference the large corpus of published scientific literature available for microalgal growth, lipid productivities and environmental tolerances. From evidence provided here candidate species/strains were evaluated both qualitatively and, where adequate data was available, quantitatively, to determine those species best suited for mass cultivation under periodic extremes of temperature, irradiance and salinity.

Keywords

Cellana biofuels project , Economically feasible microalgal feedstock production , Microalgal biomass , In-vitro lipid production , [ERI]

Citation

O'Higgins, L, Huntley, M E, Redalje, D G & O'Kelly , C J 2008, A meta-analytic review of species suitability and approaches to culture optimization for commercial biodiesel production from microalgal biomass. Cellana Inc.