An Alternative Treatment for Microalgae Harvesting Procedure with Waste Oil and its Application in Shock Wave Emulsion

Abstract

Biomass is a composition of various types of waste materials that can be utilized as useful form of energy. However this new kind of energy hasn’t met its full potential in production of energy especially electricity generation due to its lower performance in terms of thermal efficiency. In this decade, within the raising from biomass energy, the cocombustion and carbon emission reducing are the trend for the energy industry. For this study, we used vege-oil as the main material and under emulsion with water and surfactants to simulate using aquatic biomass material for next stage application. Samples are evaluated by visual effects, and selected threes types of surfactant for heat value testing. The emulsion samples are able to tested and the heat values are close to simulated results. This method is able to apply in the aquatic biomass materials, such as algae.