Algae Refinery: Up- and Downstream Processes (Greener Technologies For Sustainable Industry And Environment) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032597186 ISBN 13: 9781032597188

Publisher: CRC Press, 2025

Synopsis

Algae Refinery: Up- and Downstream Processes offers complete coverage of algae refinery, including up- and downstream processes while proposing an integrated algal refinery for the advancement of existing technologies and summarizing the strategies and future perspectives of algal refinery. It provides a concise introduction to the algal science, biology, technology, and application of algae. It explains downstream and upstream steps of algal refinery for the production of algal biomass, with several social benefits.

Features:

1. Provides various aspects of algal bioprocess including upstream and downstream processes
2. Explains the major research streams of algae structures and their pathways
3. Covers algal-based CO2 capture technology
4. Explores the potential applications of algae for socioeconomical benefits
5. Deliberates algal bioremediation approach for clean and sustainable development

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About the Author

Sanjeet Mehariya (PhD) is a Researcher at the Algal Technology Program, Center for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. Also, Dr. Mehariya worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Dr. Mehariya earned a PhD in engineering at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy. He has collaborated with national and international stakeholders, including policymakers, industries, and prominent RTD institutes in the field of biobased economy. He has worked at CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India; Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea; ENEA-Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy; and Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy.

Pradeep Verma (PhD) working at the Department of Microbiology, Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ), Ajmer, India. Prof. Verma completed his PhD from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India, in 2002. He was selected as UNESCO fellow (2002) and joined Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. He later moved to Charles University, Prague, to work as Post-Doctoral Fellow. He joined as a visiting scientist (2004) at UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany. He was awarded a DFG fellowship (2004) to work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Gottingen University, Germany. He moved to India in 2007 where he joined Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, and worked extensively on biobutanol production which attributed a few patents to his name. Later he was awarded with JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme and joined Laboratory of Biomass Conversion, Research Institute of Sustainable Humanosphere Kyoto University, Japan. He is also a recipient of various prestigious awards such as Ron-Cockcroft award by Swedish society, UNESCO Fellow ASCR Prague.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032597186
• ISBN 13: 9781032597188
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Mehariya Sanjeet, Verma Pradeep