Microalgae Cultivation for Biofuels Production

ISBN-13: 9780128175361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 382 str.

Abu Yousuf

Spis treści

1. Fundamentals of microalgae cultivation 2. Microalgae cultivation systems 3. Microalgae cultivation and photo-bioreactor design 4. Mixotrophic cultivation: Biomass and Biochemical Biosynthesis for Biofuel Production 5. Oleaginous Microalgae Cultivation for Biogas Upgrading and Phytoremediation of Wastewater 6. Harvesting and Conversion of Microalgal Biomass into Biodiesel 7. Membrane technology for microalgae harvesting 8. Processing of microalgae to biofuels 9. Microalgal cell disruption and lipid extraction techniques for potential biofuel production 10. Conversion of Microalgae biomass to Biofuels 11. Microalgal Biorefinery 12. Microalgal biorefineries for industrial products 13. Biorefinery of microalgae for non-fuel products 14. Recent trends in strain improvement for production of third generation biofuels from microalgae 15. Microalgae to biogas: microbiological communities involved 16. Microalgal based biodiesel production using different types of low-cost nano-biocatalysts 17. Biosynthesis of nanomaterials using algae 18. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and technical economic analysis (TEA) of algal biofuel production 19. Environmental resilience by Microalgae 20. Microalgae-based remediation of wastewaters 21. Resource recovery from waste streams using micro-algae: Opportunities and threats

O autorze

Dr. Abu Yousuf is a Research Associate in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, in the United States. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His primary research interests include renewable energy, biorefinery, energy storage and waste-to-energy, and he is currently working with protonic ceramic fuel cells at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Yousuf has published over 60 papers in reputed ISI and Scopus-indexed journals, 19 conference papers and 15 book chapters, and is the Editor of 5 books, as well as serving as an editorial board member for several reputed journals. He received the Dean's Award from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2019 and 2021, for his research, and won the 'International invention of the year award' at the British Invention Show, London, UK in 2017, for his work on Hybrid Energy Generation for Highway Lighting Systems.