Microalgae Cultivation for Biofuels Production

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

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