The Science of Algal Fuels (Record no. 104846)

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International Standard Book Number 9789400751101
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-94-007-5110-1
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Subject category code SCI010000
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Subject category code SCI045000
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Classification number 660.62
Edition number 23
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Personal name Gordon, Richard.
Relator term editor.
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Title The Science of Algal Fuels
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Phycology, Geology, Biophotonics, Genomics and Nanotechnology /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Richard Gordon, Joseph Seckbach.
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Extent XXXIII, 506 p. 168 illus., 114 illus. in color.
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Series statement Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology,
International Standard Serial Number 1566-0400 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 25
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Formatted contents note Dedication -- Introduction to The Science of Algal Fuels: Psychology, Geology, Biophotonics, Genomics and Nanotechnology -- Preface to The Science of Algal Fuels: Psychology, Geology, Biophotonics, Genomics and Nanotechnology -- Foreword: The Production of Algal Biofuels -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1:METHODS AND WAYS OF RESEARCH -- Quitting cold turkey: rapid oil independence for the USA -- Algal biorefinery: sustainable production of biofuels and aquaculture feed? -- Approaches and prospectives for algal fuel -- From isolation of potential microalgal strains to strain engineering for biofuel -- Integrated approach to algae production for biofuel utilizing robust algal species -- Biological constraints on the production of microalgal-based biofuels -- Adapting mass algaculture for a northern climate -- Nanotechnology for algal biofuels -- From algae to biofuel - engineering aspects -- Making fuel from algae: identifying fact amid fiction -- Algal oils: biosynthesis and uses -- Algal biofuel production through integrated biorefinery -- PART 2: PRODUCTION OF BIODIESELS AND HYDROGEN -- Dinoflagellates as feedstock for biodiesel production -- Biodiesel production from microalgae: methods for microalgal lipid assessment with emphasis on the use of flow cytometry -- Approaches to and perspectives on biodiesel and oil production using algae in Mexico -- Biodiesel production from microalgae: a mapping of articles and patents; Biotechnology of hydrogen production with the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; PART 3: ALGAE FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION -- How to breed diatoms: examination of two species with contrasting reproductive biology -- Fuel from seaweeds: rationale and feasibility -- The contribution of diatoms to worldwide crude oil deposits -- Photobiology and lipid metabolism in algae -- Metabolic pathways in green algae with potential value for biofuels production -- PART 4: FROM WASTE WATER TO FUEL PRODUCTION -- Wastewater treatment pond algal production for biofuel -- Wastewater treatment integrated with algae production for biofuel -- Sub-and supercritical water based processes for microalgae to biofuels.
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Summary, etc This volume covers and updates the “hot” topic of biofuels, with numerous international meetings, conferences, congresses, and books on biofuels. Our 61 experts from several countries contributed 26 chapters to The Science of Algal Fuels. Each chapter has been composed as a review article and contains many references for further studies and has been peer reviewed. The target audience of this volume is workers in biofuels, graduate students in biochemistry and lecturers of phycology and biochemistry of the algal world. Algae, seaweeds and cyanobacteria, who are our stars in this book, live in marine and terrestrial habitats and require the Sun for energy, CO2 and aqueous surroundings. Since it is easy to culture algae in a large scale and they yield abundant biomass in a short period, there are farms that grow them in ponds for extracting their natural products. Micro and macro (seaweeds) can produce cheap and plentiful biofuel, biodiesel, or ethanol. The phycological yield to synthesize ethanol is 7.5 times higher than from a similar area of a sugar cane field. Biofuel (such as algal products) may soon be cheaper than the commercial pumping of underground and sea bottom fossil-oil, which causes more air pollution and depends upon political decisions from unstable countries. Industry seeks cheaper and more stable sources of fuel and algal fuel might be a good solution. Thus biofuel (biodiesel, oils, ethanol) might free us from unstable regimes with their “dark gold” sources, and from up and down oil prices. Unfortunately we have not yet reached this level as yet in spite of numerous contestants in this developing research. The industry is at present not in full gear to produce a substantial yield of biofuel from algae. Algal fuel is still a long range of strategy that will involve more R&D.  Our hope is that this book will encourage the workers in this field to reach this “promised land” of algal biofuels in the not too distant future.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Chemistry.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biotechnology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Renewable energy sources.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Chemistry.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Applied Microbiology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental Science and Engineering.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biotechnology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cell Culture.
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Personal name Seckbach, Joseph.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789400751095
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Uniform title Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology,
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Volume number/sequential designation 25
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5110-1
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