Elsevier Algal Biotechnology: Integrated Algal Engineering for Bioenergy, Bioremediation, and Biomedical Applications

Algae Biotechnology: Integrated Algal Engineering for Bioenergy, Bioremediation, and Biomedical Applications covers key applications of algae for bioenergy and how to integrate the production of biofuels with environmental, nutraceutical and biomedical processes and products. The book emphasizes cost-effective biofuels production through integrated biorefinery, combining continuous processes and various algae as feedstock to produce biofuel, bioenergy and various high value biochemicals. Novel algal culturing technologies and bioprocess engineering techniques are provided for the optimization of operational approaches for commercial-scale production, as well as to reduce the overall costs. New and existing molecular methods for genetic and metabolic engineering of algae are also presented. Furthermore, methods for the optimization of existing biochemical pathways are explained, and new pathways are introduced, in order to maximize the potential for biofuels production and related nutraceutical and biomedical co-products. This book provides an ideal roadmap for bioenergy researchers and engineers who want to incorporate valuable nutraceutical and biomedical products and environmental practices into the production of biofuels. Review A roadmap to the production of biofuels alongside nutraceutical, biomedical and environmental processes and products through integrated algal biotechnology From the Back Cover <p><i>Algae Biotechnology: Integrated Algal Engineering for Bioenergy, Bioremediation, and Biomedical Applications</i> covers the key applications of algae for bioenergy and how to integrate the production of biofuels with environmental, nutraceutical, and biomedical processes and products. The book emphasizes cost-effective biofuels production through integrated biorefinery, combining continuous processes and various algae as feedstock to produce biofuel, bioenergy, and various high value biochemicals. Novel algal culturing technologies and bioprocess engineering techniques are provided for the optimization of operational approaches for commercial-scale production, as well as to reduce the overall costs. New and existing molecular methods for genetic and metabolic engineering of algae are also presented. Furthermore, methods for the optimization of existing biochemical pathways are explained, and new pathways are introduced, in order to maximize the potential for biofuels production and related nutraceutical and biomedical co-products. </p> <p><i>Algae Biotechnology: Integrated Algal Engineering for Bioenergy, Bioremediation, and Biomedical Applications</i> provides a roadmap for bioenergy researchers and engineers to incorporate valuable nutraceutical and biomedical products, and environmental practices, into the production of biofuels and will be of interest to anyone working in the field of bioenergy seeking to scale-up, optimize, or reduce the costs of biofuel production.</p> About the Author Ashfaq Ahmad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He received his Doctorate from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. His main research interests are (1) Algal Biotechnology for Bioenergy Production, Environmental Remediation, and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, (2) Environmental Engineering, (3) Food Technology and High-value Biochemicals (4) Heavy Metals Biosorption. Dr Ashfaq has published numerous journal articles in highly reputed international scientific journals and authored or co-authored 4 book chapters. Fawzi Banat is a professor in chemical engineering and the chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is an educated scholar from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with a strong background in separation processes. He is intensely involved in research and teaching in separation and biochemical enginee