Experimental investigation of energy properties for Stigonematales sp. microalgae as potential biofuel feedstock

Hossain, N; Zaini, J; Mahlia, TMI

Experimental investigation of energy properties for Stigonematales sp. microalgae as potential biofuel feedstock

Hossain, N Zaini, J Mahlia, TMI

Permalink

Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2019, 12 (2), pp. 123 - 130
Issue Date:: 2019-03-04

Closed Access

	Filename	Description	Size
	article 191.pdf	Published Version	1.2 MB	Adobe PDF	View/Open

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Closed Access

This item is closed access and not available.

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Hossain, N	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zaini, J	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Mahlia, TMI https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6985-929X	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-03-04	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2019, 12 (2), pp. 123 - 130	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1939-7038	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132360
dc.description.abstract	© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Microalgae has been considered potential biofuel source from the last decade owing to its versatile perspectives such as excellent capability of CO 2 capture and sequestration, water treatment, prolific growth rate and enormous energy content. Thus, energy research on microalgae is being harnessed to mitigate CO 2 and meet future energy demands. This study investigated the bioenergy potential of native blue-green microalgae consortium as initial energy research on microalgae in Brunei Darussalam. The local species of microalgae were assembled from rainwater drains, the species were identified as Stigonematales sp. and physical properties were characterised. Sundried biomass with moisture content ranging from 6.5% to 7.37% was measured to be used to determine the net and gross calorific value and they were 7.98 MJ/kg-8.57 MJ/kg and 8.70 MJ/kg-9.45 MJ/kg, respectively. Besides that, the hydrogen content, ash content, volatile matter, and bulk density were also experimented and they were 2.56%-3.15%, 43.6%-36.71%, 57–38%-63.29% and 661.2 kg/m 3 -673.07 kg/m 3 , respectively. Apart from experimental values, other physical bioenergy parameters were simulated and they were biomass characteristic index 61,822.29 kg/m 3 -62,341.3 kg/m 3 , energy density 5.27 GJ/m 3 -5.76G J/m 3 and fuel value index 86.19–88.54. With these experimental results, microalgae manifested itself a potential source of biofuel feedstock for heat and electricity generation, a key tool to bring down the escalated atmospheric greenhouse gases and an alternation for fossil fuel.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Journal of Sustainable Engineering	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/19397038.2018.1521882	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.title	Experimental investigation of energy properties for Stigonematales sp. microalgae as potential biofuel feedstock	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	12	en_US
utslib.for	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering	en_US
utslib.for	1202 Building	en_US
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
utslib.for	09 Engineering	en_US
utslib.for	12 Built Environment and Design	en_US
utslib.for	15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Information, Systems and Modelling
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CAMGIS - Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial lnformation Systems
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access	*
pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	12	en_US

Abstract:

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Microalgae has been considered potential biofuel source from the last decade owing to its versatile perspectives such as excellent capability of CO 2 capture and sequestration, water treatment, prolific growth rate and enormous energy content. Thus, energy research on microalgae is being harnessed to mitigate CO 2 and meet future energy demands. This study investigated the bioenergy potential of native blue-green microalgae consortium as initial energy research on microalgae in Brunei Darussalam. The local species of microalgae were assembled from rainwater drains, the species were identified as Stigonematales sp. and physical properties were characterised. Sundried biomass with moisture content ranging from 6.5% to 7.37% was measured to be used to determine the net and gross calorific value and they were 7.98 MJ/kg-8.57 MJ/kg and 8.70 MJ/kg-9.45 MJ/kg, respectively. Besides that, the hydrogen content, ash content, volatile matter, and bulk density were also experimented and they were 2.56%-3.15%, 43.6%-36.71%, 57–38%-63.29% and 661.2 kg/m 3 -673.07 kg/m 3 , respectively. Apart from experimental values, other physical bioenergy parameters were simulated and they were biomass characteristic index 61,822.29 kg/m 3 -62,341.3 kg/m 3 , energy density 5.27 GJ/m 3 -5.76G J/m 3 and fuel value index 86.19–88.54. With these experimental results, microalgae manifested itself a potential source of biofuel feedstock for heat and electricity generation, a key tool to bring down the escalated atmospheric greenhouse gases and an alternation for fossil fuel.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132360