Microalgae-Based Biofuels and Bioproducts: From Feedstock Cultivation to End-products

✍ Scribed by Cristina Gonzalez-Fernandez, Raul Muñoz

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 540
• Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Microalgae-Based Biofuels and Bioproducts: From Feedstock Cultivation to End Products compiles contributions from authors from different areas and backgrounds who explore the cultivation and utilization of microalgae biomass for sustainable fuels and chemicals.

With a strong focus in emerging industrial and large scale applications, the book summarizes the new achievements in recent years in this field by critically evaluating developments in the field of algal biotechnology, whilst taking into account sustainability issues and techno-economic parameters. It includes information on microalgae cultivation, harvesting, and conversion processes for the production of liquid and gaseous biofuels, such as biogas, bioethanol, biodiesel and biohydrogen. Microalgae biorefinery and biotechnology applications, including for pharmaceuticals, its use as food and feed, and value added bioproducts are also covered.

This book’s comprehensive scope makes it an ideal reference for both early stage and consolidated researchers, engineers and graduate students in the algal field, especially in energy, chemical and environmental engineering, biotechnology, biology and agriculture.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Copyright,List of contributors,AcknowledgmentsEntitled to full text1 - Photobioreactors for the production of microalgae, Pages 1-44
2 - Heterotrophic and mixotrophic microalgae cultivation, Pages 45-65
3 - Microalgae cultivation in wastewater, Pages 67-91
4 - Applications of genome-scale metabolic models of microalgae and cyanobacteria in biotechnology, Pages 93-111
5 - Harvesting of microalgae: Overview of process options and their strengths and drawbacks, Pages 113-132
6 - Cell disruption technologies, Pages 133-154
7 - Biogas production from microalgae, Pages 155-182
8 - Breakthroughs in bioalcohol production from microalgae: Solving the hurdles, Pages 183-207
9 - Biohydrogen production from microalgae, Pages 209-234
10 - Biodiesel from microalgae, Pages 235-258
11 - Pyrolysis of microalgae for fuel production, Pages 259-281
12 - Biogas upgrading using algal-bacterial processes, Pages 283-304
13 - Synthetic biology of cyanobacteria for production of biofuels and high-value products, Pages 305-325
14 - Biorefinery of algae: Technical and economic considerations, Pages 327-345
15 - Microalgal proteins for feed, food and health, Pages 347-368
16 - Microalgal fatty acids—From harvesting until extraction, Pages 369-400
17 - Cyanobacterial toxins as a high value-added product, Pages 401-428
18 - Trends in red biotechnology: Microalgae for pharmaceutical applications, Pages 429-460
19 - Extraction of value-added compounds from microalgae, Pages 461-483
20 - Economics of microalgae production, Pages 485-503
21 - Environmental impacts of full-scale algae cultivation, Pages 505-525
Index, Pages 527-540

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