The food prices maintain upward trend at the beginning of 2011 in China, which means that the raw material shortage situation for food industry may continue haunting for a while. In order to guarantee food security, more new kinds of raw materials are introduced in the bio-energy industry to replace corn in the future. Among them, algae is the most promising alternative.
Thanks to algae's fast growing speed but without occupying any farmland, China has started to promote its algae-based energy as early as 2005. Besides research institutes, many enterprises such as ENN Group also entered into the algae-based energy field. For example, ENN Group announced to realize commercialization of its algae-based diesel by 2014.
Algae culturing is the foundation of algae-based diesel industry, the costs of which may take up about 40% of the total in algae-based diesel. However, lots of breeding work of algae is still in the R&D stage in China and the algae strains from this work are not qualified for industrialization at present. Aiming to culture a desired algae strain for industrialization, it is suggested that the whole gene network for algae should be figured out before genetic modification. Moreover, the mass culturing technology of algae is another bottleneck for the development of algae-based diesel. Currently, the photo bioreactor is still immature and lack of relevant criteria or evaluation system to be regulated globally (including China).
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