Algae

[teymourj]

Dear friends,

Currently I am working on a project about doing an energy and exergy analysis on the process of converting algae to ethanol, but after searching a lot of data bases and searching with google I still need more detail information about colony forming algae or any other type of green algae. What I exactly need is is chemical reactions which algae go through, such as decay, formation and fermentation. My field is mechanical engineering therefore I don't have that much knowledge about biological point of view of this process but I need them.

I appreciate any hint and help. Thank you so much for your time.

Teymour Javaherchi

[mith]

algae produces hydrogen; I'm not sure why algae would be be a good ethanol source...you're probably better off looking at switchgrass.

[biohazard]

I think algae might be a feasible source of ethanol because it can be grown e.g. in the sea. That is, if we use algae as a carbon source for a fermentation process. And if so, I think algae lysate or something similar could be fermented like many other biological materials, although I'm not sure about the exact details atm.