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Methane production from the red seaweed Gracillaria Tikvahiae

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Date Issued:
1981
Title: Methane production from the red seaweed Gracillaria Tikvahiae.
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Name(s): Hanisak, M. Dennis
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 1981
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, Inc.
Place of Publication: Berlin
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 7 p.
Language(s): English
Identifier: FA00007005 (IID)
Note(s): Research has been conducted for several years at the HarborBranch Foundation on the cultivation of seaweeds as a possiblesource of biomass that can be converted to methane or otherfuels (1,2). Of over 40 species of seaweeds examined, therhodophyte Gracilaria tikvahiae had the highest sustainedyield and can be vegetatively propagated indefinitely in anaquaculture system. Its productivity can be as high as anyterrestrial crop on earth (3).
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 195
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Hanisak, M. D. (1981). Methane production from the red seaweed Gracilaria tikvahiae. In T. Levring (Ed.), Xth International seaweed symposium proceedings (pp. 681-686). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Subject(s): Methane
Gracilaria
Digester gas
Biomass
Red algae
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Host Institution: FAU