Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals

Biomass, Biofuels and Biochemicals: Biofuels from Algae, Second Edition provides information on strategies for commercial microalgae based biofuel production, including their cultivation, pre-treatment and conversion methods. The book discusses methods for producing microalgal biomass in large scale by outdoor culturing and outlines new technologies for their use. In addition, it explains how modern genetic engineering enables the generation of recombinant strains that generate higher quantities of feedstock. The complete utilization of microalgal biomass, which can also be obtained from valorizing nutrients from wastewater and industrial exhaust gases, can be efficiently converted to energy rich biofuels and high value pharmaceuticals in a well-defined biorefinery.

1. Introduction to algal fuels 2. Culture media for mass production of microalgae 3. Microalgal strain selection for biofuel production 4. Algal biomass harvesting 5. Algal culture and biofuel production using wastewater 6. Metabolic engineering and molecular biotechnology of microalgae for fuel production 7. Open pond systems for microalgal culture 8. Design of photobioreactors for algal culture 9. Heterotrophic production of algal oils 10. Flocculation and electroflocculation for algal biomass recovery 11. Algal oils as fuels 12. Production of biohydrogen from microalgae 13. Production of potential co-products from microalgae 14. Applications of spent algal biomass 15. Hydrothermal upgradation of algae into value-added hydrocarbons 16. Scale-up and commercialization of algal cultivation and biofuel production 17. Life-cycle assessment of microalgal biofuels 18. Economics of microalgae biomass production