Algal Biorefinery

A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications

Sanjeet Mehariya, Bikash Kumar, Shashi Kant Bhatia, Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443239663
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications focuses on algae's possibilities, assets, and functions as a renewable and sustainable resource that can act as an excellent alternative to withstand adverse environmental conditions to generate useful products. Thus, apart from helping reduce environmental pollution and the carbon footprint, algae can help mitigate factors causing rapid climate change via concurrent bioremediation, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability.This comprehensive book will examine dedicated state-of-the-art information on the topic of how algae can act as a cushion against climate change. It will also explain how algal-based biorefineries can act as a potential solution to climate change, lack of natural resources, and environmental pollution - Elucidates algal biorefinery as a sustainable solution for carbon emission reduction and fossil fuels alternatives. - Offers up-to-date information on algal-based wastewater treatment and resource recovery to assist in climate change. - Provides flowcharts, schematic diagrams, and figures showing mechanisms and processes for the depiction of strategies for algal-based technologies. - Examines the environmental impact assessment of existing and developing algal-based technologies for future environmental sustainability.

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1. Understanding carbon emission and minimizing its footprint via algal biomass-based biorefinery technologies
• Chapter 2. Algal biomass: A climate resilient feedstock for food, feed, and therapeutic applications
• Chapter 3. The potential of algae from marine sources for future large-scale commercial product generation and its application
• Chapter 4. Carbon capture by algae for sustainable product generation
• Chapter 5. Recovery of high value carotenoids from microalgae: Health beneficial metabolites
• Chapter 6. Algae as a potential source of biofuels and sustainable agriculture practice
• Chapter 7. Unlocking the bioenergy potential of algal biomass: Microbial cell factories and innovative fermentation strategies
• Chapter 8. Cultivation of microalgae on anaerobic digestate: Case studies
• Chapter 9. Decarbonizing the oil and gas industry via algal biorefinery: Drivers and barriers analysis using q-rung orthopair fuzzy DEMATEL approach
• Chapter 10. Algal technologies in waste treatment and environmental remediation
• Chapter 11. Microalgae-mediated pollutant removal from wastes of pharmaceutical and personal care products industry—Current trends
• Chapter 12. Biotechnological advances for wastewater treatment and resource recovery using algae and cyanobacteria
• Chapter 13. Role of algal-based technologies in domestic wastewater treatment for resources recovery and water reuse
• Chapter 14. Wastewater treatment employing microbial carbon-capture cells with concomitant bioenergy production and valuable product recovery
• Chapter 15. Can algal based technologies help achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in the industrial sector?
• Chapter 16. Advances in technologies for biotransformation of algal biomass into high-value products
• Chapter 17. Bottlenecks in applications of algal-based technologies toward industrial commercialization
• Chapter 18. Bottleneck and opportunities toward practical aspects of microalgae-based biorefineries
• Chapter 19. Life cycle assessment and techno-economic sustainability assessment of existing algal-based technologies for future implications
• Chapter 20. Immobilized microalgae cultivation systems: Pros and cons concerning environmental impact assessment (EIA)
• Chapter 21. Future prospect of development of integrated wastewater and algal biorefineries and its impact on biodiversity and environment
• Index