title: Heterotrophic cultivation of microalgae for production of biodiesel.
abstract: High cell density cultivation of microalgae via heterotrophic growth mechanism could effectively address the issues of low productivity and operational constraints presently affecting the solar driven biodiesel production. This paper reviews the progress made so far in the development of commercial-scale heterotrophic microalgae cultivation processes. The review also discusses on patentable concepts and innovations disclosed in the past four years with regards to new approaches to microalgal cultivation technique, improvisation on the process flow designs to economically produced biodiesel and genetic manipulation to confer desirable traits leading to much valued high lipid-bearing microalgae strains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Mohd Shamzi
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.forename: Lai Zee
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Arbakariya B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Ariff
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D019149:Bioreactors; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002452:Cell Count; D002482:Cellulose / Q000378:metabolism; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000096:biosynthesis; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D052836:Heterotrophic Processes / Q000502:physiology; D058086:Microalgae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010330:Patents as Topic
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated; D000431:Ethanol; D002482:Cellulose