[Digestion] Microlagae spriulina feedstock

[David Fulford]

Apologies to the list, I should check my facts before making comments.

The Phyllis data base confirms that there is very a good Nitrogen content 
in algae. In that case, algae would make a good feed for a biogas plant, 
even without other feedstocks.

As others have suggested, the algae are good at cleaning polluted water, so 
they could be used to concentrate the COD from dirty water for making biogas.

Cheers,

David


At 11:44 03/06/2007 +0530, adkarve wrote:
>Dear David,
>as far as I know, green and blue-green algae are full of nitrogen, quite
>comparable to green leaves. One dry weight basis, Spirulina contains 70%
>protein.
>Yours
>A.D.Karve

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