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...