ALGAE RESEARCH

IN COLLABORATION WITH TISTR

CO2 UTILIZATION AND INNOVATIVE ALGAE EXTRACTION

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Microalgae is the third generation of biomass resources. It has many advantages and can be used in many applications. WBC Laboratory has a strong collaboration with TISTR (Dr. Sophon Sirisattha from Biodiversity Research Centre) on algae research from cultivation to final conversion.

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Microalgae is a competitive biomass resources due to its higher growth rate compared to conventional biomass resources. It has great ability to convert solar energy into chemical energy in form of lipids. It also contains protein and nutrition that can be extracted.

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Future work of TISTR with WBC Laboratory focuses on CO2 utilization for microalgae cultivation. Optimization of process will be done at laboratory-scale. Bench-scale equipment will be developed to test algae cultivation. Several cultivating medium will be tested.

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After nutrition and protein are extracted from microalgae, the residue is converted into bio crude oil by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) and chemical extraction. Bio crude oil property can be modified and upgraded based on extraction chemicals and condition.