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Microalgae Cultivation for Biofuels Production
- 1st Edition - November 22, 2019
- Editor: Abu Yousuf
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 5 3 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 5 3 7 - 8
Microalgae Cultivation for Biofuels Production explores the technological opportunities and challenges involved in producing economically competitive algal-derived biofuel.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMicroalgae Cultivation for Biofuels Production explores the technological opportunities and challenges involved in producing economically competitive algal-derived biofuel. The book discusses efficient methods for cultivation, improvement of harvesting and lipid extraction techniques, optimization of conversion/production processes of fuels and co-products, the integration of microalgae biorefineries to several industries, environmental resilience by microalgae, and a techno-economic and lifecycle analysis of the production chain to gain maximum benefits from microalgae biorefineries.
- Provides an overview of the whole production chain of microalgal biofuels and other bioproducts
- Presents an analysis of the economic and sustainability aspects of the production chain
- Examines the integration of microalgae biorefineries into several industries
Researchers and graduate students in the field of biomass and biofuels, bioproducts, algae production and algal applications
1. Fundamentals of microalgae cultivation
2. Microalgae cultivation systems
3. Microalgae cultivation and photo-bioreactor design
4. Mixotrophic cultivation: Biomass and Biochemical Biosynthesis for Biofuel Production
5. Oleaginous Microalgae Cultivation for Biogas Upgrading and Phytoremediation of Wastewater
6. Harvesting and Conversion of Microalgal Biomass into Biodiesel
7. Membrane technology for microalgae harvesting
8. Processing of microalgae to biofuels
9. Microalgal cell disruption and lipid extraction techniques for potential biofuel production
10. Conversion of Microalgae biomass to Biofuels
11. Microalgal Biorefinery
12. Microalgal biorefineries for industrial products
13. Biorefinery of microalgae for non-fuel products
14. Recent trends in strain improvement for production of third generation biofuels from microalgae
15. Microalgae to biogas: microbiological communities involved
16. Microalgal based biodiesel production using different types of low-cost nano-biocatalysts
17. Biosynthesis of nanomaterials using algae
18. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and technical economic analysis (TEA) of algal biofuel production
19. Environmental resilience by Microalgae
20. Microalgae-based remediation of wastewaters
21. Resource recovery from waste streams using micro-algae: Opportunities and threats
- No. of pages: 382
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 22, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128175361
- eBook ISBN: 9780128175378
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Abu Yousuf
Dr. Abu Yousuf is a Research Associate in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, in the United States. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His primary research interests include renewable energy, biorefinery, energy storage and waste-to-energy, and he is currently working with protonic ceramic fuel cells at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Yousuf has published over 60 papers in reputed ISI and Scopus-indexed journals, 19 conference papers and 15 book chapters, and is the Editor of 5 books, as well as serving as an editorial board member for several reputed journals. He received the Dean’s Award from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2019 and 2021, for his research, and won the ‘International invention of the year award’ at the British Invention Show, London, UK in 2017, for his work on Hybrid Energy Generation for Highway Lighting Systems.
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Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, BangladeshRead Microalgae Cultivation for Biofuels Production on ScienceDirect