Production of Bio-oil from Native Algae of Solani Aquaduct Roorkee
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N. K. Soni
Nitesh Soni did his B. Tech and M. Tech duel degree in Chemical Engineering in 2012 from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.Anil Kumar Varma is a Ph.D scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He did his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering in 2008 and M.Tech in Chemical Engineering in 2010. Presently he is working on the area of production of energy from biomass and waste.Prasenjit Mondal is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, since 2009. He has industrial, research and teaching experience for 11 years. He has completed good number of research and consultancy projects on energy and environmental area. Presently he is working on the production of energy from biomass including algae and wastes, gasification, pyrolysis, microbial fuel cells, water and waste water treatment. He has published one monograph and 34 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is a reviewer of some reputed international journals.
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M. N. Srivastava
M. N. Srivastava is presently working as Scientist and Head of the Department of botany, CSRI-CDRI Lucknow. He has 25 years of research experience and more than 60 peer reviewed publication in his credit. His current research area is biological screening, medicinal terrestrial and marine plant diversity, ethnobotany and conservation of Indian medicinal plants. He has vast research experience on algal flora particularlyCyanophyceae andBacillariophyceae of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Abstract
The present paper deals with the production of bio-oil from algal biomass collected from Solani aqua-duct, Roorkee. The taxonomy of algal sample shows the dominance of Hydrodictyon reticulatum (L) Lagerheim with trace amount of ulotrichalean strains. The algal biomass contains 14.01 wt.% of lipid. The most suitable conditions for the production of bio-oil have been identified as biomass to hexane ratio of 1.7 and temperature of 30 °C. Under this condition around 60% of the oil/lipid in the algal cells have been extracted with the extraction/agitation period of 6 h. The produced bio-oil has been upgraded to biodiesel by transesterification using H2SO4 as catalyst. Both the algal bio-oil and biodiesel have been characterized through GC-MS and compared. The possible application of the oil extracted algal biomass has also been described.
About the authors
Nitesh Soni did his B. Tech and M. Tech duel degree in Chemical Engineering in 2012 from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
Anil Kumar Varma is a Ph.D scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He did his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering in 2008 and M.Tech in Chemical Engineering in 2010. Presently he is working on the area of production of energy from biomass and waste.
Prasenjit Mondal is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, since 2009. He has industrial, research and teaching experience for 11 years. He has completed good number of research and consultancy projects on energy and environmental area. Presently he is working on the production of energy from biomass including algae and wastes, gasification, pyrolysis, microbial fuel cells, water and waste water treatment. He has published one monograph and 34 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is a reviewer of some reputed international journals.
M. N. Srivastava is presently working as Scientist and Head of the Department of botany, CSRI-CDRI Lucknow. He has 25 years of research experience and more than 60 peer reviewed publication in his credit. His current research area is biological screening, medicinal terrestrial and marine plant diversity, ethnobotany and conservation of Indian medicinal plants. He has vast research experience on algal flora particularly Cyanophyceae and Bacillariophyceae of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
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