
Microalgae-Based Biofuels and Bioproducts
From Feedstock Cultivation to End-Products
Description
Key Features
- Presents the most current information on the uses and untapped potential of microalgae in the production of bio-based fuels and chemicals
- Critically reviews the state-of-the-art feedstock cultivation of biofuels and bioproducts mass production from microalgae, including intermediate stages, such as harvesting and extraction of specific compounds
- Includes topics in economics and sustainability of large-scale microalgae cultivation and conversion technologies
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Photobioreactors for the production of microalgae
2. Heterotrophic and mixotrophic microalgae cultivation
3. Microalgae cultivation in wastewater
4. Applications of genome-scale metabolic models to microalgae and cyanobacteria production systems
5. Harvesting of microalgae: overview of process options and their strengths and drawbacks
6. Cell Disruption Technologies
7. Biogas production from microalgae
8. Breakthroughs in bio-alcohol production from microalgae: Solving the hurdles
9. Biohydrogen production from microalgae
10. Biodiesel from Microalgae
11. Pyrolysis of microalgae for fuel production
12. Biogas upgrading using algal-bacterial processes
13. Synthetic biology of cyanobacteria for production of biofuels and high-value products
14. Biorefinery of algae: Technical and economic considerations
15. Microalgal proteins for food and feed
16. Microalgal Fatty acids-from harvesting till extraction
17. Cyanobacterial toxins as a high value added product
18. Trends in Red Biotechnology: Microalgae for Pharmaceutical Applications
19. Extraction of added-value compounds from microalgae
20. Economics of Microalgae Cultivation
21. Environmental impacts of mass-scale algae cultivation
Product details
- No. of pages: 560
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
- Published: June 13, 2017
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081010235
- eBook ISBN: 9780081010273
About the Editors
Raul Muñoz
Affiliations and Expertise
Cristina Gonzalez-Fernandez
Affiliations and Expertise
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