ボツリオコッカスを使ったジェット燃料生産技術の開発

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This article presents the status of development of microalgae production for renewable jet fuel. A special species of improved Botoryococcus braunii is cultivated in the pond for producing jet fuel. The species has great characteristics of large growth rate compared with wild species, high content of oil and large particle size. The open-pond cultivation has been succeeded through the scaled-up examinations using pond ranging from 100 m²- to 1500 m²-area in Japan without contamination troubles that other species attacked to it. In the meantime, the open-pond cultivation was also succeeded in low latitudes. The growth rate was larger than that in Japan, that revealed the strength of solar radiation has the tremendous effect of enhancement of growth on the species.