At present any company or firm produces chemicals and fuel from macroalgal biomass on a commercial scale using the biorefinery approach?
Well it depends how you define "biorefinery". If one considers anaerobic digestion with multiple input and output streams as a microbial biorefinery then there is at least one such facility. In Solrød, Denmark, industrial wastes and manure are co-digested with cast seaweed collected on the local beach, and biogas and organic fertiliser are produced. For more info: http://solrodbiogas.dk/
The concept is further developed within the COASTAL Biogas project. For more info: https://www.coastal-biogas.eu/
Chapter An Introduction to Algal Biofuels
Ravi Singh Baghel gets your answer within Table 1.10 in the chapter mentioned here.
Dear Manisha Verma, thanks for answering. My question is about macroalgae based chemicals and fuels, not microalgae.
Hi there Jörgen Held
Curious if you have additional data.
The plant uses 3.7 % "Beach cleaning material" but this seems to also include sea-grass. How much material is actually seaweeds?
R U aware of any other commercial success using seaweeds?
TYIA
There is a huge literature bunch of such, but you should concentrate on matching technologí to possible scale
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