Energy from Microalgae

Description

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation. It also offers extensive information on engineering approaches to energy production, such as process integration and process intensification in harnessing energy from microalgae. Issues related to the environment, food, chemicals and energy supply pose serious threats to nations’ success and stability. The challenge to provide for a rapidly growing global population has made it imperative to find new technological routes to increase the production of consumables while also bearing in mind the biosphere’s ability to regenerate resources. Microbial biomass is a bioresource that provides effective solutions to these challenges. Divided into eight parts, the book explores microalgal production systems, life cycle assessment and the bio-economy of biofuels from microalgae, process integration and process intensification applied to microalgal biofuels production. In addition, it discusses the main fuel products obtained from microalgae, summarizing a range of useful energy products derived from algae-based systems, and outlines future developments. Given the book’s breadth of coverage and extensive bibliography, it offers an essential resource for researchers and industry professionals working in renewable energy. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Energy from Microalgae: A Brief Introduction (Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Queiroz Zepka, Maria Isabel Queiroz)....Pages 1-4 Microalgal Production Systems with Highlights of Bioenergy Production (Mariana Manzoni Maroneze, Maria Isabel Queiroz)....Pages 5-34 Process Integration Applied to Microalgal Biofuels Production (Alcinda Patrícia de Carvalho Lopes, Francisca Maria Loureiro Ferreira dos Santos, Vítor Jorge Pais Vilar, José Carlos Magalhães Pires)....Pages 35-57 Process Intensification of Biofuel Production from Microalgae (Saurabh Joshi, Parag Gogate)....Pages 59-87 Microalgae Biorefineries for Energy and Coproduct Production (Pierre-Louis Gorry, León Sánchez, Marcia Morales)....Pages 89-140 Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels from Microalgae (Mariany Costa Deprá, Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Queiroz Zepka)....Pages 141-155 The Bioeconomy of Microalgal Biofuels (Kun Peng, Jiashuo Li, Kailin Jiao, Xianhai Zeng, Lu Lin, Sharadwata Pan et al.)....Pages 157-169 Biofuels from Microalgae: Biodiesel (Lucas Reijnders)....Pages 171-180 Biofuels from Microalgae: Energy and Exergy Analysis for the Biodiesel Case (Daissy Lorena Restrepo-Serna, Mariana Ortiz-Sánchez, Carlos Ariel Cardona-Alzate)....Pages 181-200 Biofuels from Microalgae: Biohydrogen (Harshita Singh, Debabrata Das)....Pages 201-228 Biofuels from Microalgae: Bioethanol (Reinaldo Gaspar Bastos)....Pages 229-246 Biofuels from Microalgae: Biomethane (Fabiana Passos, Cesar Mota, Andrés Donoso-Bravo, Sergi Astals, David Jeison, Raúl Muñoz)....Pages 247-270 Biofuels from Microalgae: Photobioreactor Exhaust Gases in Oxycombustion Systems (Ihana Aguiar Severo, Juliano Smanioto Barin, Roger Wagner, Leila Queiroz Zepka, Eduardo Jacob-Lopes)....Pages 271-290 Recent Patents on Biofuels from Microalgae (Ahmad Farhad Talebi, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo)....Pages 291-306