Abstract
At NREL's National Bioenergy Center, we are working towards developing a new method for estimating the oil or lipid content and chemical composition in a wide range of algal strains using near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. Algae have great potential to accumulate large quantities of lipids that can be converted into a variety of biofuels including biodiesel and jet fuel. However, the level oflipids can vary considerably between strains and changes with growth and environmental culture conditions.
| Original language | American English |
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| Journal | AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com |
| State | Published - 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Available from AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com: http://www.algaeindustrymagazine.com/predicting-algal-lipid-content-using-nir-spectroscopy/NREL Publication Number
- NREL/JA-5100-49374
Keywords
- algae
- algal strains
- lipid content
- near infrared spectroscopy