With rapid economic development, energy consumption in China has tripled in the past 20years, exceeding 2.8 billion tons of standard coal in 2008. The search for new green energy as substitutes for nonrenewable energy resources has become an urgent task. Biodiesel is one of the most important...

A water-miscible solvent of 1,2-dimethoxyethane was found for efficient extraction of algal oil from wet cells of Botryococcus braunii. The volumetric ratio of the extractant to water in the wet algal biomass affected the extraction efficiency at a fixed ratio of solvent to dry algal biomass,...