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Catalytic Approach for Production of Hydrocarbon Rich Bio-Oil from a Red Seaweed Species

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Macro algae represent a diverse group of multicellular marine organisms capable of performing the photosynthetic process and classified into three main categories due to the presence of specific photosynthetic pigment into their body: (1) Phaeophyceae (2) Rhodophyceae, and (3) Chlorophyceae, which in general term known as brown, red, and green seaweeds, respectively. There are more than 1000 species belonging to these groups of plants, having uses in food, pharma, textile, agriculture, and microbiology based industries, as they are the main sources of the key products. Due to different growth rate, hybrid nature of the products, higher contents of other cellular components, and poor quality of the obtained products, etc., only few species had occupied the industrial applications among which Gracilaria, Eucheuma, Sargassum, Ulva, Laminaria species are the key players. Nature has offered unique features to each species with respect to their possible application in the selective domain. The absence of lignin, higher rates of growth, no use of lands for cultivation as well as their higher CO2 mitigation capabilities, seaweed biomass can find application in the energy sector as suitable energy resources. As compared to micro algal biomass, which has considered as alternative energy source of the third-generation biofuels macroalgal biomass has not been explored that much.

In this work, a red macroalgal biomass Champia indica was used for study towards its bioenergy prospective in terms of pyrolysis. Based on proximate, ultimate, TGA and DTG analyses; the biomass was pyrolysed to yield bio-oil, biochar and biogas. The bio-oil was further upgraded using ZSM-5 catalyst to give oil having calorific value of 34.6 MJ/Kg under optimum conditions.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Mr. Charu Pant and Mr. Surajit Mondal at Central Instrumentation Center-UPES for analysis. Sanjay Kumar is thankful to UPES for providing financial support through SEED money project, Priyanka Roat is grateful to UGC for Junior Research Fellowship (Ref. No. 19/06/2016 (i) EU-V). Sonal Hada is thankful to NFST UGC, New Delhi for fellowship (F1-17.1/2016-17/NFST-2015-17-ST-RAJ-626).

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    Priyanka Roat, Sonal Hada, Bhawna Chechani & Neetu Kumari

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

    Praveen Ghodke

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Kumar, S. et al. (2020). Catalytic Approach for Production of Hydrocarbon Rich Bio-Oil from a Red Seaweed Species. In: Kumar, N. (eds) Biotechnology for Biofuels: A Sustainable Green Energy Solution. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3761-5_5

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