Probing microbial emulsions to break barriers to green oil production

探索微生物乳液以打破绿色石油生产的障碍

• 批准号: DP170103791
• 负责人: Prof Muthupandian Ashokkumar
• 金额: $ 34.66万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP170103791
• 关键词: Probing; microbial; emulsions; break; barriers

This project aims to understand ultrasonic processing of concentrated slurries of oil-bearing yeast and algae. Humans must reduce their dependency on petroleum. While microorganisms can produce oils as replacement fuels and base chemicals, the processes for extracting these oils are inefficient. Ultrasound could improve oil recovery by replacing toxic solvents. Understanding the effects of ultrasound on microbial emulsions is expected to develop solvent-free oil recovery processes that improve the economic and environmental benefits of microbial oil production. Such processes would greatly increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of producing microbial oils that can be used as green alternatives to petroleum fuels and chemicals.

本项目旨在了解含油酵母和藻类浓缩浆料的超声处理。人类必须减少对石油的依赖。虽然微生物可以生产油作为替代燃料和基础化学品，但提取这些油的过程效率很低。超声波可以通过取代有毒溶剂来提高石油采收率。了解超声波对微生物乳剂的影响有望开发出无溶剂采油工艺，从而提高微生物采油的经济效益和环境效益。这样的过程将大大提高效率，降低生产微生物油的成本，微生物油可以作为石油燃料和化学品的绿色替代品。