3.4. Comparison with literature
The current immaturity of the microalgae to biofuels processes
has led to the evaluation of a variety of processing technologies on
the metrics of GWP. LCA facilitates a holistic comparison of individual
sub-processes as the work requires considering the entire
process from growth to fuel. A comparison of the results in this
study was made to other previously published LCA results, Fig. 8.
The literature survey was limited to studies that report results
based on a system boundary consistent with this study, WTP with
the conversion methods used in the various studies highlighted. A
similar analysis based on the metric of NER is presented in the
supplementary information.