The potential of seaweeds from the Iranian southern coasts as bio-refinery for clean biofuels production

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1 Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran

2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

The presence of a large diversity of massive macro-algae on the coasts and seas of the southern part of Iran (the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea) include of 167 red algae, 79 green algae, and 80 species of brown algae showed a promise prospective of the biofuel extraction potential from the Persian Gulf marine macro-algae and the production of a powerful phase of clean energy beyond the fundamental national research that hat its production methods have been interpreted in this paper. These marine algae, especially in the bloom seasons have a very large weighty biomass, but except for a few local uses, are released useless on the beaches. Biomass of these algae contains three important components of proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. The presence of more than 40% of fatty acids in some of these algae can be extracted as oil feedstocks, as well as by biochemical/thermochemical/fermentative microbiological processes that can extract and utilize the total carbon content of algae for the production of safe fuel in the industrial scale. These processes can easily convert these algae compounds into a variety of bio-fuels such as bio-diesel, bio-gas, bio-hydrogen, bio-ethanol, bio-butanol, methane, and charcoal.

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Advanced Aquaculture Sciences Journal
Volume 2, spring
June 2018
Pages 55-68

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