Participants

Lead Researcher Dr. Gillan Mufid Al-Sayed & Associate Researcher Prof. Dr. Yahya Yusuf Ismail

Country / City

Suez

Funding Authority

Suez University

Project Profile:

Algae are organisms spread in all aquatic environments, some are phytoplankton in the water, and some are phytobenthose at the bottom near the beach. Algae are self-nutritious organisms (grown through photosynthesis) by converting sunlight, carbon dioxide, and a few nutrients including nitrogen and phosphorus into biomass.

Algae play a vital role in the fields of fish farming due to their distinctive chemical composition. Algae are also used as a source of protein and energy in fish feed. Algae have a high protein content of 25-60%, a fat ratio of 5-50%, and a feed of 60-70% of the economic cost. Thus, attention must be paid to this problem and try to solve it and provide balanced feed containing all the elements that fish need at an appropriate price.

 

The most important applied areas of algae biomass:

Using algae in fish farming.

Using algae to produce biofuels.

Pharmaceutical uses of algae.

Use algae as soil fertilizers.

 

The objective of the project:

The country faces some national problems that significantly affect the country's economic situation. These problems can be summarized below:

The fodder problem at fish farms.

Energy problem.

Pharmaceutical substances and food supplements (such as vitamins and micro-elements).

Agricultural fertilizer (organic fertilizer).