| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 506 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Cellular origin, Life in extreme habitats and astrobiology, 1566-0400 ; v. 25 |
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Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology ; v. 25.
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| Contents |
METHODS AND WAYS OF RESEARCH -- Quitting Cold Turkey: Rapid Oil Independence for the USA / Richard Gordon, Bryan J. Poulin -- Algal Biorefinery: Sustainable Production of Biofuels and Aquaculture Feed? / Faruq Ahmed, Yan Li, Peer M. Schenk -- Approaches and Prospectives for Algal Fuel / Amit Kumar Bajhaiya, M.R. Suseela, P.W. Ramteke -- From Isolation of Potential Microalgal Strains to Strain Engineering for Biofuel / Poonam Bhargava, Krishna Mohan Medicherla -- Integrated Approach to Algae Production for Biofuel Utilizing Robust Algal Species / Anju Dahiya -- Biological Constraints on the Production of Microalgal-Based Biofuels / John G. Day, Michele S. Stanley -- Adapting Mass Algaculture for a Northern Climate / Jesse C. McNichol, Patrick J. McGinn -- Nanotechnology for Algal Biofuels / Mrunalini V. Pattarkine, Vikram M. Pattarkine -- From Algae to Biofuel: Engineering Aspects / Vikram M. Pattarkine, Dheeban Chakravarthi Kannan |
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Making Fuel from Algae: Identifying Fact Amid Fiction / Christopher J. Rhodes -- Algal Oils: Biosynthesis and Uses / Moran Topf, Mordechai Tavassi, Yael Kinel-Tahan, David Iluz, Zvy Dubinsky -- Biofuel Production from Algae Through Integrated Biorefinery / Dinabandhu Sahoo, Savindra Kumar, Geetanjali Elangbam, Salam Sonia Devi -- PRODUCTION OF BIODIESELS AND HYDROGEN -- Dinoflagellates as Feedstock for Biodiesel Production / Claudio Fuentes Grünewald -- Biodiesel Production from Microalgae: Methods for Microalgal Lipid Assessment with Emphasis on the Use of Flow Cytometry / M. Teresa Lopes Da Silva, Alberto Reis -- Approaches and Perspectives About Biodiesel and Oil Production Using Algae in Mexico / Rafael Riosmena Rodriguez, Bertha Olivia Arredondo-Vega, Teodoro Reynoso Granados -- Biodiesel Production from Microalgae: A Mapping of Articles and Patents / Angela Machado Rocha, Dinabandhu Sahoo, Tiago Ferrer, Cristina Quintella -- Biotechnology of Hydrogen Production with the Microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / Giuseppe Torzillo, Cecilia Faraloni, Luca Giannelli |
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ALGAE FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION -- How to Breed Diatoms: Examination of Two Species with Contrasting Reproductive Biology / Victor A. Chepurnov, Peter Chaerle, Koen Vanhoutte, David G. Mann -- Fuel from Seaweeds: Rationale and Feasibility / Ariel Reznik, Alvaro Israel -- The Contribution of Diatoms to Worldwide Crude Oil Deposits / Sunil Kumar Shukla, Rahul Mohan -- Photobiology and Lipid Metabolism in Algae / Kristian Spilling, Jukka Seppälä -- Metabolic Pathways in Green Algae with Potential Value for Biofuel Production / Venkataramanan Subramanian, Alexandra Dubini, Michael Seibert -- FROM WASTE WATER TO FUEL PRODUCTION -- Wastewater Treatment Pond Algal Production for Biofuel / Rupert J. Craggs, Tryg Lundquist, John Benemann -- Wastewater Treatment Integrated with Algae Production for Biofuel / Anju Dahiya, John H. Todd, Anthony McInnis -- Sub- and Supercritical Water-Based Processes for Microalgae to Biofuels / Sandeep Kumar |
| Summary |
This volume covers and updates the "hot" topic of biofuels, with numerous international meetings, conferences, congresses, and books on biofuels. Our 61 experts from several countries contributed 26 chapters to The Science of Algal Fuels. Each chapter has been composed as a review article and contains many references for further studies and has been peer reviewed. The target audience of this volume is workers in biofuels, graduate students in biochemistry and lecturers of phycology and biochemistry of the algal world. Algae, seaweeds and cyanobacteria, who are our stars in this book, live in marine and terrestrial habitats and require the Sun for energy, CO2 and aqueous surroundings. Since it is easy to culture algae in a large scale and they yield abundant biomass in a short period, there are farms that grow them in ponds for extracting their natural products. Micro and macro (seaweeds) can produce cheap and plentiful biofuel, biodiesel, or ethanol. The phycological yield to synthesize ethanol is 7.5 times higher than from a similar area of a sugar cane field. Biofuel (such as algal products) may soon be cheaper than the commercial pumping of underground and sea bottom fossil-oil, which causes more air pollution and depends upon political decisions from unstable countries. Industry seeks cheaper and more stable sources of fuel and algal fuel might be a good solution. Thus biofuel (biodiesel, oils, ethanol) might free us from unstable regimes with their "dark gold" sources, and from up and down oil prices. Unfortunately we have not yet reached this level as yet in spite of numerous contestants in this developing research. The industry is at present not in full gear to produce a substantial yield of biofuel from algae. Algal fuel is still a long range of strategy that will involve more R & D. Our hope is that this book will encourage the workers in this field to reach this "promised land" of algal biofuels in the not too distant future |
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Chemistry |
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Biotechnology |
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Microbiology |
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Cell culture |
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Renewable energy sources |
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Applied Microbiology |
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Environmental Science and Engineering |
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Nanotechnology and Microengineering |
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Renewable and Green Energy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Biomass energy.
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Algae -- Biotechnology
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Biomass.
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Power resources.
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Biomass
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Energy-Generating Resources
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energy resources.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
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Power resources
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Biomass
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Algae -- Biotechnology
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Biomass energy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gordon, Richard.
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Seckbach, J. (Joseph)
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| ISBN |
9789400751101 |
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9400751109 |
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9400751095 |
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9789400751095 |
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9781283935920 |
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1283935929 |
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9400799136 |
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9789400799134 |
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