A review on current advances in the energy and cost effective pretreatments of algal biomass: Enhancement in liquefaction and biofuel recovery

S Kavitha, R Gondi, RY Kannah, G Kumar… - Bioresource technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The main downside of utilizing algal biomass for biofuel production is the rigid cell wall
which confines the availability of soluble organics to hydrolytic microbes during biofuel …

Recent trends on seaweed fractionation for liquid biofuels production

PG Del Río, JS Gomes-Dias, CMR Rocha… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Concerns about fossil fuels depletion has led to seek for new sources of energy. The use of
marine biomass (seaweed) to produce biofuels presents widely recognized advantages …

Production of new cellulose nanomaterial from red algae marine biomass Gelidium elegans

YW Chen, HV Lee, JC Juan, SM Phang - Carbohydrate polymers, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose was successfully isolated from Gelidium elegans red algae marine biomass.
The red algae fiber was treated in three stages namely alkalization, bleaching treatment and …

Extraction of proteins from two marine macroalgae, Ulva sp. and Gracilaria sp., for food application, and evaluating digestibility, amino acid composition and …

M Kazir, Y Abuhassira, A Robin, O Nahor, J Luo… - Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
With rising global population and decreasing available land and fresh water resources, the
oceans provide an attractive domain for sourcing nutrients. The marine macroalgae Ulva sp …

Experimental investigation on simultaneous production of bioethanol and biodiesel from macro-algae

N Jeyakumar, AT Hoang, S Nižetić… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work compares the biofuel production efficiency of Padina tetrastromatica and
Sargassum swartzii macro-algae biomass by fermentation with Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

Reuse of red algae waste for the production of cellulose nanocrystals and its application in polymer nanocomposites

M El Achaby, Z Kassab, A Aboulkas, C Gaillard… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Red algae is widely available around the world and its exploitation for the production of agar
products has become an important industry in recent years. The industrial processing of red …

Insights into the evolution of multicellularity from the sea lettuce genome

O De Clerck, SM Kao, KA Bogaert, J Blomme… - Current biology, 2018 - cell.com
We report here the 98.5 Mbp haploid genome (12,924 protein coding genes) of Ulva
mutabilis, a ubiquitous and iconic representative of the Ulvophyceae or green seaweeds …

Recent advances in anaerobic digestion of lipid-rich waste: challenges and potential of seaweeds to mitigate the inhibitory effect

A Abomohra, S Faisal, R Ebaid, J Huang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Considerable attention has been devoted towards anaerobic digestion of lipid-rich waste
(LRWs) due to their higher energy content comparing to other waste rich in carbohydrates …

A critical review on production of bioethanol from macroalgal biomass

N Dave, R Selvaraj, T Varadavenkatesan… - Algal Research, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to combat emerging concerns due to global climate change and increasing
conventional fuel prices, bioethanol appears to be a sustainable green resource as co-fuel …

A review of seaweed pre-treatment methods for enhanced biofuel production by anaerobic digestion or fermentation

S Maneein, JJ Milledge, BV Nielsen, PJ Harvey - Fermentation, 2018 - mdpi.com
Macroalgae represent a potential biomass source for the production of bioethanol or biogas.
Their use, however, is limited by several factors including, but not restricted to, their …