TY - JOUR AB - According to estimates of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, the continued use of oil based-energy is responsible for more than two thirds of the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In Brazil, the National Program for use and biodiesel production has looked for the diversification of feedstock for biodiesel production. Among several alternative sources of energy, microalgae biomass shows great potential to be used as raw material for producing biodiesel. Rich in lipids and fatty acids, the oil yield per hectare in some strains of microalgae is considerably higher than the most conventional oilseed crops such as palm, Jatropha, soybean and sunflower. The commercial production triggered strong interest at the 1960s, with the development of a series of technologies to cultivate microalgae in open ponds and photobioreactors. Industrial or agricultural wastes such as vinasse previously treated in anaerobic digesters, for example, can be recycled and reused through the cultivation of microalgae, besides the application in the fertirrigation of sugar cane crop. This would also qualify the cultivation of microalgae as a clean development mechanism to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases. AD - Univ Sao Paulo, Ctr Energia Nucl Agr, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil AN - WOS:000298922400027 AU - Cenciani, K. AU - Bittencourt-Oliveira, M. C. AU - Feigl, B. J. AU - Cerri, C. C. DA - Nov 16 DO - 10.5897/Ajmr11.773 IS - 26 J2 - Afr J Microbiol Res KW - biodiesel from microalgae LA - English N1 - 873yq PY - 2011 SN - 1996-0808 SP - 4638-4645 ST - Sustainable production of biodiesel by microalgae and its application in agriculture T2 - African Journal of Microbiology Research TI - Sustainable production of biodiesel by microalgae and its application in agriculture UR - ://WOS:000298922400027 VL - 5 ID - 6308 ER -