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    This document discusses using algae for photosynthetic bio-manufacturing of useful products. It describes how photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide and sunlight to create products, like food and fuel, and how algae are a new platform for large-scale production of various products from lipids to proteins. Currently, the microalgae production market is valued at $12 billion annually, with top producers like Spirulina, Chlorella, and Dunaliella used for human nutrition and cosmetics. Algae bio-manufacturing has potential to economically produce high-value products at both small and large scales.

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    This document discusses using algae for photosynthetic bio-manufacturing of useful products. It describes how photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide and sunlight to create products, like food and fuel, and how algae are a new platform for large-scale production of various products from lipids to proteins. Currently, the microalgae production market is valued at $12 billion annually, with top producers like Spirulina, Chlorella, and Dunaliella used for human nutrition and cosmetics. Algae bio-manufacturing has potential to economically produce high-value products at both small and large scales.

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    Algae as Industrial Organisms


    Photosynthetic bio-manufacturing
    Stephen Mayfield PhD
    California Center for Algae Biotechnology
    UC San Diego

    1
    What is bio-manufacturing?
    Is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make
    useful products

    2
    Agriculture is also bio-manufacturing

    Algae is Agriculture

    3
    Photosynthetic Bio-manufacturing: Using
    Carbon Dioxide and Sunlight to Create Products
    Sun ! Plants ! Products Occurs in the Chloroplast

    Light Reactions produce Energy and Reducing Agents Dark Reactions produces glucose

    Glyceraldehyde-3-
    phosphate 4
    How important is Photosynthetic Bio-Manufacturing?

    All Food and 85% of our Fuel* are products of Photosynthesis!

    *Petroleum (algae) and Coal (plants) are simply fossil Photosynthate


    5
    Algae are a new platform for photosynthetic
    bio-manufacturing

    Inputs Conversion Outputs


    Engine 6
    Algae bio-manufacturing can produce a 

    wide spectrum of products

    Low Cost
    lipids High Volume

    carbs

    proteins

    High Cost
    Low Volume
    7
    Microalgae Production – $12 billion market
    Annual Application &
    Microalgae Producer Country Price (U.S. $)
    Production Product
    Human Nutrition $53 kg-1
    3000 tonnes dry USA, China, India,
    Spirulina weight Myanmar, Japan
    Cosmetics
    Phycobiliproteins $16 mg-1
    2000 tonnes dry Human Nutrition
    Chlorella Taiwan, Germany, Japan $53 kg-1
    weight Cosmetics
    Human Nutrition
    1200 tonnes dry Australia, Israel, USA,
    Dunaliella salina Cosmetics $318-$3,186 kg-1
    weight Japan
    B-carotene
    Aphanizomenon flos- 500 tonnes dry
    USA Human Nutrition $53 kg-1
    aquae weight

    Haematocococcus 300 tonnes dry Aquaculture $2000 -


    USA, India, Israel
    pluvialis weight Astaxanthin $10,596 kg-1

    Crypthecodinium 240 tonnes DHA oil USA DHA oil $64 gm-1
    cohnii
    Shizochytrium 10 tonnes DHA oil USA DHA oil $64 gm-1
    8
    Adapted from: Brennan, L. and Owende, P. (2010) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 14: 557-577.

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