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Meeting renewable energy policies (such as Renewable Portfolio Standard, RPS and Renewable Fuels Standard, RFS) requires development of a large sustainable biomass resource; macroalgae could be a potential contributor towards this policy to produce biofuels. In particular, massive brown algae have been considered a promising biomass to accomplish the biofuel goals in the nearest future. The most direct route to producing biofuels from brown algae is via anaerobic digestion (AD) process. Although the application of brown algae for AD process is still at an early stage, there is almost no technical barrier to the process, particularly as an additional feedstock for existing AD may contribute to the fast development of industrial biofuel application. This review provides an overall perspective required for an advanced assessment of the development of brown algae as a sustainable biofuel resource from the AD process.
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This article is dedicated to Prof. Hwayong Kim on the occasion of his retirement from Seoul National Univerisity.
Hee-Chul Woo is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pukyong National University in Korea, where he has taught since 1992. He received his B.S. degree (Inha University, Korea), M.S. degree (KAIST, Korea), and Ph.D. degree (POSTECH, Korea) all in Chemical Engineering and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (1995–1996). In 2003 he was a visiting professor at the Virginia Tech. His research interests cover heterogeneous catalysis, adsorptive desulfurization from gases and liquid fuels, and bioenergy production and integrated utilization of marine biomass. Woo is a general director of Aquatic Biomass Research Center and also an editor of Clean Technology (Korean Journal).
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Song, M., Pham, H.D., Seon, J. et al. Overview of anaerobic digestion process for biofuels production from marine macroalgae: A developmental perspective on brown algae. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 32, 567–575 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-015-0039-5
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