A review of the current potential of European brown seaweed for the production of biofuels

Gail Twigg; Jeffrey Fedenko; George Hurst; Michele s. Stanley; Adam d. Hughes

doi:10.1186/s13705-024-00452-5

A review of the current potential of European brown seaweed for the production of biofuels

Gail Twigg
, Jeffrey Fedenko
, George Hurst
, Michele s. Stanley
, Adam d. Hughes

SAMS UHI

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Abstract

In addition to the other uses for macroalgae, since the 1970s, there has been interest in using macroalgae as a source of biofuels, due to the high rates of productivity and intrinsic advantages over other biofuel crops such as not requiring land use or signifcant freshwater input. A wide range of conversion processes exist but anaerobic digestion was one of the frst demonstrated and is still a widely proposed conversion pathway. To be economically viable and scalable within Europe, the industry will need to be based on a small number of fast growing, high-yielding European macroalgae species. There is a wide body of scientific work on the conversion of seaweeds to biofuel via anaerobic digestion.

Original language	English
Article number	21
Number of pages	25
Journal	Energy, Sustainability and Society
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-024-00452-5
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2024

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Keywords

Europe
anaerobic digestion
biofuels
cultivation
economics
heavy metals
land use
metabolites
seaweed
bio-energy
brown seaweed
conversion process
current-potential
economically viable
freshwater inputs
high rate
macro-algae
main texts
microbial communities
land use change
literature review
macroalga
feedstocks

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