Thermal pre-treatment of wet microalgae harvest for efficient hydrocarbon recovery

Applied Energy

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2420-2423

  Kita, K ^a   Okada, S ^a   Sekino, H ^a   Imou, K ^a   Yokoyama, S ^a   Amano, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

B race; Botryococcus braunii; Hydrocarbon; Thermal pretreatment

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; EXTRACTION; HARVESTING; MICROORGANISMS; RECOVERY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII; DOWNSTREAM PROCESS; DRYING PROCESS; HYDROCARBON RECOVERY; MICRO-ALGAE; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SOLVENT-EXTRACTION PROCESS; THERMAL PRE-TREATMENT;

HYDROCARBONS;

GREEN ALGA; HYDROCARBON; MICROALGA; RECOVERY METHOD; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLVENT; THERMAL ALTERATION;

BOTRYOCOCCUS BRAUNII;

EID: 77953131351     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.11.036     Document Type: Article

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