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Solar-to-Fuel Conversion in Algae and Cyanobacteria
This volume is focused on solar-to-fuel conversion using algae and cyanobacteria for advanced generation biofuels. Production of biofuels needs to rely on cheap and renewable resources, in order to be economically viable and environmentally sustainable in the long term. Solar energy is an abundant a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Introduction to biofuels: An emerging industry. 3. Exploring novel feedstocks and technologies for advanced biofuels: the promises of algae
- 4. Bio-ethanol from algae polysaccharides
- 5. Biodiesel from microalgae
- 6. Processing of algal biomass for the production of biogas and bio-oil
- 7. Cyanobacteria as a platform for direct photosynthesis-to-fuel conversion
- 8. Economic viability of algal biodiesel
- 9. Photosynthesis: a dynamic process
- 10. Solar-to-biomass conversion efficiency
- 11. Light Saturation of photosynthesis
- 12. Downstream biochemical reactions: carbon assimilation
- 13. Light-utilization inefficiency of wild type algal mass cultures
- 14. Genetic modification of the pigment optical density
- 15. Development of microalgae cultivation and biomass harvesting systems for biofuel production
- 16. Environmental sustainability of biofuel production from algae
- 17. Concluding remarks.