[Digestion] energy from algae

Zietsman, Rex Rex at Process.co.za
Fri Oct 26 00:32:55 EDT 2007


I agree wholeheartedly. My route is to hydrolyse and saccarify before
fermenting to ethanol. The ethanol only is then boiled off.

Rex

Paul wrote:

G'day all, 

Energy from algae is a hot topic! If incinerating remember that algae
are
wet to start with, you convert all the organic carbon to CO2, you
basically
loose any nutrients to the ash and that you then have to deal with
particulates in the flue gas - I think oil extraction and AD are better
energy routes than straight incineration.

Happy digesting,
HOOROO



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