Patnaik Reeza, Mallick Nirupama
Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India.
Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2021 May 28;9:620777. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.620777. eCollection 2021.
Search for new and renewable sources of energy has made research reach the tiny little tots, microalgae for the production of biodiesel. But despite years of research on the topic, a definitive statement, declaring microalgae as an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable resource is yet to be seen or heard of. With technological and scientific glitches being blamed for this delay in the progress of the production system, an assessment of the sustainability indices achieved so far by the microalgal biodiesel is important to be done so as to direct future research efforts in a more coordinated manner to achieve the sustainability mark. This article provides a review of the current economic, environmental, and social status of microalgal biodiesel and the strategies adopted to achieve them, with suggestions to address the challenges faced by the microalgal biodiesel production system.
对新能源和可再生能源的探索已使研究深入到微藻这一用于生产生物柴油的微小生物。然而，尽管针对该主题已进行了多年研究，但尚未见到或听闻有明确声明宣称微藻是一种经济、环境和社会可持续的资源。由于生产系统进展的延迟被归咎于技术和科学上的故障，因此对微藻生物柴油目前所达到的可持续性指标进行评估很有必要，以便更协调地指导未来的研究工作以实现可持续性目标。本文综述了微藻生物柴油当前的经济、环境和社会状况以及为实现这些状况所采用的策略，并针对微藻生物柴油生产系统所面临的挑战提出了应对建议。
