Thermal pre-treatment of wet microalgae harvest for efficient hydrocarbon recovery

K. Kita, S. Okada, H. Sekino, K. Imou, S. Yokoyama and T. Amano

Applied Energy, 2010, vol. 87, issue 7, 2420-2423

Abstract: Botryococcus braunii, a green colonial microalga, is an unusually rich renewable source of hydrocarbons. In this study, wet microalgae harvest was thermally pretreated to enhance hydrocarbon recovery using a solvent extraction process. Samples containing a mixture of B. braunii and water were kept below 100 °C for 10 min. The observed hydrocarbon recovery was 97.8% at 90 °C. The extraction results suggest that the energy-intensive concentration and drying processes of the harvest could be eliminated. The proposed thermal pretreatment would revolutionize the conventional downstream processes.

Keywords: Botryococcus; braunii; B; race; Hydrocarbon; Thermal; pretreatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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