Sentences with phrase «diatom oil»

Investigation has shown that diatom oil can be used as biofuel without further processing, says Ramachandra — another advantage.

Scientific analysis of diatom oil has shown that it is very suitable for use as biofuel, says T. V. Ramachandra, a professor of ecological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here who is working on this project with IISc researchers Durga Mahapatra and Karthick Balasubramanian, along with Richard Gordon, a radiology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg.

Not exact matches

Ramachandra and his colleagues propose to genetically modify diatoms by manipulating the genes that produce oil so that they enhance its production.

New diatom species Diatoms may have other advantages when it comes to oil production.

The oil can be as much as a quarter of the total mass of a diatom cell, and if a way could be found to efficiently wrest it from diatoms, he adds, a hectare of «diatom cultivation could produce 10 to up to 200 times the oil that is produced by soybean cultivation,» Ramachandra says.

As he and his collaborators put it, «with at least a boundary layer of water on the diatoms, secreted oil droplets would separate under gravity, rising to the top of a tilted panel forming an unstable emulsion, which should progressively separate.

If diatoms could be made to similarly secrete the oil they produce, then it could be easily harvested.

Diatoms would float about in a nutrient - rich water solution and produce oil when exposed to sunlight.

Or, agricultural and industrial civilisation alters (silica feeding diatoms, oil smoothing etc etc) the ocean's biochemistry and (aerosol modification) reduces cloud cover and hence albedo.