Isolation culturing and application of diatoms for sustainable development

Abstract

Diatoms are enormous community of unicellular eukaryotic photosynthetic microalgae. Diatoms are the good source of both oil and carotenoids. Diatoms High energy demand and inadequate fossil fuel led to inflated oil price and global warming. This energy crisis had drawn great attention to a renewable energy resource like algal biofuels. Microalgae are also enriched with the other nutraceutical compounds with oil like astaxanthin, lutein and fucoxanthin. Biodiesel from microalgae is consider to be best third generation liquid biofuel than other generation of biofuel. newline