While microalgae and cyanobacteria have historically served as feedstocks for high-value natural compounds, powerful tools for genetic manipulation have overcome the previous challenges of producing transgenic biologics in algae by applying high-throughput principles to strain selection and systems biology approaches to metabolic engineering.
Understanding these regulatory mechanisms may lead to rational strategies for improved growth characteristics for N. oceanica under challenging environmental conditions and for the development of improved microalgal feedstocks for high-value products or biofuel.
Lignin has been considered as a promising sustainable feedstock for high value-added aromatic chemical production.
The produced microbial oils displayed interesting properties to be used as a feedstock for high quality biodiesel production.
Our findings shows that solid waste plastic can be directly use as a feedstock for high quality graphene growth and thereby converting to a significantly value added product.
Generally, fast pyrolysis and flash pyrolysis are more promising alternative approaches than slow pyrolysis due to the fact that they can convert a wide range of biomass feedstock for higher bio-oil yields [98, 99].
Because of its compact structure and reactive olefin functionality, it also has some potential as a feedstock for high-density renewable fuels such as jet fuel [ 5, 6].
Biologically produced ethylene is expected to be free of metals and other contaminants commonly found in fossil-derived ethylene stream, and therefore may become a preferred feedstock for high-purity chemicals and clean fuels.
Considering the protection of sugars from undesired degradation, it is impossible to attain the complete removal of lignin for the existing thermochemical pretreatments, especially for feedstocks with high lignin content, such as forest biomass [ 2].
Although a mild pretreatment may yield fewer inhibitor compounds, the practical industrial processes still need the intensively pretreated lignocellulose feedstock for a high bioconversion yield.
The results indicate that the use of optimized co-culture system would be a preferred process especially for feedstock with high C5 sugar content.
