How to Make Algal Biofuel-Part 1:Growing algae at home

[crsbt]

what could you use the oil for and how would you get the oil from algea to clean oil??

[SirSly420]

This video was painful next time just have a "pause now to read text " msg appear instead of making it 5 mins of nothing and 1 min of info . It's just constructive criticism don't hate me for this comment please n thnkyou peace .

[hawkstrike244]

I am currently making algae biofuels for a science project at my school and i am on the part of extracting the lipid oils. However I am not sure I have tried micro waving a small samples of the algae that was pulled from the tank and did see some bubbles which i think were the actual oils but I am not sure can you give me some tips please?

[QIZHONGLABS]

@hawkstrike244

Thank you for contacting me. In general, the way to recover oil from algal cells is to break the cell wall and release the oil contents. You can either mechanically do it or use an organic solvent to do it. But you need the right equipment. If you do not have the equipment, I would try to heat the sample until you see an oil layer on the top of the mixture or freeze-thaw a few times then heating the mixture. Please let me know if it works. Thanks.