Posted by Christopher
These may also be worth a look, but I'm at home just now and can't see them. I'll look at these when I'm in uni, however feel free to peruse them yourselves.
Liquid fuel (oil) from halophilic algae: A renewable source of non-polluting energy
CO2 fixation and oil production using micro-algae
A green light for engineered algae: redirecting metabolism to fuel a biotechnology revolution
Posted by Stella
ReplyDeleteDunaliella came up in a couple of the papers I was reading too:
Microalage as a raw material for biofuels production
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r41577u434w17147/
and Solar energy conversion efficiencies in photosynthesis: Minimizing the chlorophyll antennae to maximize efficiency
http://tinyurl.com/2e8co3u
The latter is quite interesting because it suggests truncating the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna size to alleviate excess absorption of sunlight so that the photons are available for other algae (counter to evolutionary survival of the fittest). It's one method of engineering algae to maximise oil production.
(I've just modified your links a bit Chris to hide the urls.)