Microalgal Bioengineering

This book presents recent advances, challenges, and trends in modern microalgal biotechnology. It covers microalgae genetics, bioreactors, modeling, massive scale and industrial cultivation, and environmental, social, and economic aspects of microalgal biotechnology. The book also explores the emerging knowledge about high-value bioproducts from microalgae, e. g. , biofuels, biosurfactants, bioremediation, bioplastics/biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, antioxidants (anti-aging), fatty acids, polysaccharides and proteins, feed and superfoods with microalgae. The chapters will be written by prominent professors and researchers from the six inhabited continents of the world, from academic to industrial sectors.

Microalgae as the central variable in imagining a systemic society with the purpose of abundance. - Considerations for cultivating and processing Botryococcus braunii. - Biofertilizers from microalgae. - HARVESTING MICROALGAE: OVERCOMING THE BOTTLENECKS IN MICROALGAE-BASED WASTEWATER TREATMENT THROUGH INDUSTRIAL-SCALE GRAVITY SEDIMENTATION AND THICKENING. - Mass balance of the major cellular carbon pools for the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana as regulated by irradiance, CO2, and growth phase. - Microalgal products from agro-industry wastes. - The neuroprotective and antioxidant activities of Spirulina. - Plastome engineering in microalgae the future of the green biotechnology. - Microalgae and cyanobacteria EPS: producing strains, accumulation and extraction strategies, and valorizations. - Challenges and perspectives for alternative media in microalgae cultivation: Main substrates and approaches, and potential of alternative derived biomasses as source of bioactives. - Lipids and fatty acids from microalgae. - Microalgae superfoods.