Microalgae 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 bioproductsPresents an analysis of the economic and sustainability aspects of the production chainExamines the integration of microalgae biorefineries into several industries INDICE: 1. Introduction to Microalgae cultivation 2. Microalgae cultivation systems 3. Microalgae cultivation and photo-bioreactor design 4. Microalgae Cultivation for Biogas Upgrading and Production of Biodiesel Feedstocks 5. Mixotrophic cultivation: Biomass and Biochemical Biosynthesis for Biofuel Production 6. Processing of microalgae to biofuels 7. Processing of microalgae to biofuels 8. Membrane technology for microalgae harvesting 9. Harvesting and Conversion of Microalgal Biomass into Biodiesel 10. Recent trends in strain improvement for production of third generation biofuels from microalgae 11. Microalgal biorefineries for industrial products 12. Thermo-chemical conversion of microalgae biomass into biochar and bio-oil 13. Microalgal Biorefinery 14. Biorefinery to Microalgae: no-fuel products 15. Microalgae to biogas: microbiological communities involved 16. Environmental resilience by Microalgae 17. Microalgae-based Remediation of Wastewaters 18. Resource recovery from waste streams using micro-algae: Opportunities and threats 19. Integration of Wastewater Treatment and Photoautotrophic Cultivation Systems: Biological Nutrient Removal and Bioenergy Opportunities for Agriculture and Industry 20. Algal bioproducts from wastewaters 21. Microalgae in nanotechnology 22. Techno-economic study of microalgae cultivation and harvesting from pilot-scale performance data 23. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and technical economic analysis (TEA) of algal biofuel production 24. Micro-algal based biodiesel production using different types of low-cost nano-biocatalysts
- ISBN: 978-0-12-817536-1
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 260
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés