Facilitating access to the algal economy: Mapping waste resources to identify suitable locations for algal farms in Queensland

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-52

  Prasad, Penny ^a   Pullar, David ^a   Pratt, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algae; Carbon dioxide; Industrial ecology; Mapping; Nutrients; Waste resources

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS;

ALGAL CULTIVATIONS; ALGAL PRODUCTIONS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS; DERIVED MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; REGIONAL AUTHORITIES; WASTE RESOURCES;

MAPPING;

BIODIESEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIESEL FUEL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

ALGA; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; MAPPING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; RECYCLING; WASTE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGA; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; AUSTRALIA; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE; LAND USE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRIENT; RECYCLING; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

AUSTRALIA; BUNDABERG; BURDEKIN; MACKAY; QUEENSLAND; TOOWOOMBA;

EID: 84896535812     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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