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5 Biological Utilization of CO2 into Chemicals and Fuels | Gaseous Carbon Waste Streams Utilization: Status and Research Needs | The National Academies Press

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Harnessing the natural ability of microorganisms to capture and convert CO2 into chemicals and fuels has great potential for utilization of gaseous carbon waste. Because biological processes have unique carbon utilization resource requirements and product opportunities, these can be seen as complementary to chemical and mineral carbonation options. This chapter addresses opportunities, challenges, and research needs relevant to utilization technologies that convert CO2 into various products through photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic means. While nonphotosynthetic processes for carbon waste gas utilization can produce high biomass yields, these systems suffer from poor life-cycle analyses when compared to photosynthetic methodologies (Vieira et al., 2013). Among photosynthetic processes, algal biomass provides high yields, with more than 30- to 50-fold improvement in oil yield in comparison to common agricultural crops (Singh and Gu, 2010). The term algae broadly refers to any photosy

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