A Brief Literature Overview of Various Routes to Biorenewable Fuels from Lipids for the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bio-products (NAABB) Consortium

Albrecht, Karl O. ; Hallen, Richard T.

关键词: ALGAE;    BIOFUELS;    DIESEL FUELS;    FATS;    LIPIDS algae;    lipids;    biofuels;    bio-products;    biodiesel;    renewable diesel;    green diesel;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1019208
RP-ID  :  PNNL-20279
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1019208
Others  :  Other: BM0102030
Others  :  TRN: US201115%%33

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Renewable methods of producing transportation fuels are currently the focus of numerous large research efforts across the globe. Renewable fuel produced from algal lipids is one aspect of this research that could have profound implications on future transportation fuel requirements. However, technical challenges remain in several areas of algal-lipid-based fuels. These challenges include the identification and development of robust and productive algal species as well as extraction methods to recover the produced lipids. Not the least of these technical challenges is the conversion of the algae lipids to fungible fuels. This brief literature review focuses primarily on state-of-the-art ???downstream??? applications of producing fuel from fats and lipids, which can be applied to ongoing research with algae-derived lipids.