Nanotechnology helps in producing biodiesel from algae

16 January 2010

Fuel consumption is growing throughout the globe, however production of the convention non-renewable fuel or  energy is constant and further the resources of petroleum and coal based energy are limited and therefore worldwide researchers are looking for alternates of petroleum and coal based energy and biofuel is one of them. Researchers are working on various biofuel sources such as cane sugar for producing methanol, jetropa, rapeseed oil and algae for producing biodiesel.

U.S. Department of Energy has already launched a program for research and developing advanced biofuel and DOE will invest around $78 million in coming years. Two teams at Iowa State University will get a grant of $8 million from DOE over the next three years. The first team is led by Victor Lin, Professor of chemistry and Director of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology’s Centre for Catalysis, which will get $5.3 million and the team, will mainly focus on nanotechnology for converting algae to biodiesel. The other team is led by Robert C. Brown, Professor in Engineering, which will get a total grant of $2.7 million for study of catalytic conversion of biomass so that it maximizes fuel production.

The first team led by Professor Lin will study the silica nanocomposites prepared by Catilin Inc can be successfully used for selective conversion of algae into useful components such as high value lipids and the rest of the algae will be converted into biodiesel using Catilin’s commercial catalysts.

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