| Name of Alga |
Oil (% Dry weight) |
Commercial culture system |
| Ankistrodesmus |
28-40 |
Tank |
| Botryococcus braunii |
29-75 |
Open raceway pond |
| Chlorella protothecoides |
15-55 |
Central Pivot Ponds, Raceways, Tubular Photobioreactors |
| Chlorella sp. |
29 |
Central Pivot Ponds, Raceways, Tubular Photobioreactors |
| Crypthecodinium cohnii |
20 |
Fermenter (heterotrophic) |
| Cyclotella |
42 |
- |
| Cylindrotheca sp. |
16-37 |
- |
| Dunaliella tertiolecta |
36-42 |
Extensive ponds |
| Haematococcus |
20-35 |
Open paddle-wheel pond , Tubular Photobioreactors |
| Hantzschia |
66 |
- |
| Isochrysis sp. |
25-33 |
- |
| Monallanthus salina |
>20 |
- |
| Nannochloris |
31 (6-63) |
- |
| Nannochloropsis |
46 (31-68) |
Raceways |
| Neochloris oleoabundans |
35-54 |
- |
| Neochloris oleoabundans |
35-54 |
- |
| Nitzschia |
28-50 |
- |
| Phaeodactylum tricornutum |
31 |
Vertical bubble column and airlift photobioreactors |
| Pleurochrysis carterae |
|
Raceways |
| Scenedesmus |
45 |
- |
| Schizochytrium |
50-77 |
- |
| Spirulina |
4-11 |
Raceways |
| Stichococcus |
33 (9-59) |
- |
| Tetraselmis suecica |
15-32 |
Big bag culture |
| Thalassiosira pseudonana |
21-31 |
- |
