Wastewater use in algae production for generation of renewable resources: a review and preliminary results

Aquatic Biosystems

Table 3 Annual biofuel production estimates derived from algae growth in wastewater nutrients in the Tampa Bay area, FL

Description	Source	Algae biomass (tons yr^-1)	Biofuel (gal yr^-1)	Total revenue (US$ yr^-1)¹
Wastewater	HFC AWTP	1,965	112,833	451,332
Wastewater	WTS	1,091	156,712	626,848
Total		3,056	269,545	1,078,180

¹Biodiesel cost $4.05 per gal taken from the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), http://www.card.iastate.edu/research/bio/tools/hist_bio_gm.aspx, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.