Algal Biorefineries Volume 1: Cultivation of Cells and Products /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bajpai, Rakesh (Editor), Prokop, Aleš (Editor), Zappi, Mark (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Renewable energy resources.; Biotechnology.; Microbiology.; Plant biochemistry.; Engineering design.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Applied Microbiology.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Engineering Design.; Plant Biochemistry.

Over the past century, the majority of chemical and energy needs of our industrial society has originated from fossilized carbon sources (coal, crude oil, natural gas). Increasingly, there is a realization that utilization of the fossilized carbon sources has adverse environmental consequences in th...

Table of Contents:

• Status of Algae as Vehicles for Commercial Production of Fuels and Chemicals
• Algal Reactor Design Based on Comprehensive Modeling of Light and Mixing
• Low Cost Nutrients for Algae Cultivation
• Microalgae Bioreactors
• Micro Algae in Open Raceways
• High Density Outdoor Algae Culture
• Mixotrophic Algae Cultivation for Energy Production and Other Applications
• Engineering Photobiological H2-production
• Starch Overproduction by Means of Algae
• Oil Overproduction by Means of Microalgae
• Commercial Products from Algae
• Recovery of Lipids from Algae.