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The promising future of microalgae: current status, challenges, and optimization of a sustainable and renewable industry for biofuels, feed, and other products

Overview of attention for article published in Microbial Cell Factories, March 2018
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Title
The promising future of microalgae: current status, challenges, and optimization of a sustainable and renewable industry for biofuels, feed, and other products
Published in
Microbial Cell Factories, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12934-018-0879-x
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Authors

Muhammad Imran Khan, Jin Hyuk Shin, Jong Deog Kim

Abstract

Microalgae have recently attracted considerable interest worldwide, due to their extensive application potential in the renewable energy, biopharmaceutical, and nutraceutical industries. Microalgae are renewable, sustainable, and economical sources of biofuels, bioactive medicinal products, and food ingredients. Several microalgae species have been investigated for their potential as value-added products with remarkable pharmacological and biological qualities. As biofuels, they are a perfect substitute to liquid fossil fuels with respect to cost, renewability, and environmental concerns. Microalgae have a significant ability to convert atmospheric CO2to useful products such as carbohydrates, lipids, and other bioactive metabolites. Although microalgae are feasible sources for bioenergy and biopharmaceuticals in general, some limitations and challenges remain, which must be overcome to upgrade the technology from pilot-phase to industrial level. The most challenging and crucial issues are enhancing microalgae growth rate and product synthesis, dewatering algae culture for biomass production, pretreating biomass, and optimizing the fermentation process in case of algal bioethanol production. The present review describes the advantages of microalgae for the production of biofuels and various bioactive compounds and discusses culturing parameters.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 3265 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 509 16%
Student > Master 438 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 385 12%
Researcher 226 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 106 3%
Other 305 9%
Unknown 1296 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 395 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 382 12%
Engineering 255 8%
Chemical Engineering 207 6%
Environmental Science 184 6%
Other 416 13%
Unknown 1426 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2024.
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#811,227
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Outputs from Microbial Cell Factories
#18
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#18,278
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Outputs of similar age from Microbial Cell Factories
#1
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