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The Pigments from Microalgae Handbook presents the current state of
knowledge on pigment production using microalgae-based processes,
and covers both the scientific fundamentals of this technology and
its practical applications. It addresses biology, chemistry,
biochemistry, analysis and engineering aspects, as well as
applications of natural pigments in photosynthetic organisms. The
book also describes the analytical procedures associated with the
characterization of pigments and the engineering aspects of
microalgal pigment production. It considers the three major classes
of pigments(chlorophylls, carotenoids and phycobiliproteins)
produced and surveys the main commercial applications of these
chemicals. The book offers a valuable source of information for
industrial researchers and practitioners in industrial
biotechnology, as it covers various engineering aspects of
microalgal pigment production, such as bioreactors and
bioprocesses, industrial extraction processes, and the bioeconomy
of production including life-cycle assessment. The book will also
be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of
biochemistry, food chemistry, and industrial microbiology.
This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of
the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for
energy generation. It also offers extensive information on
engineering approaches to energy production, such as process
integration and process intensification in harnessing energy from
microalgae. Issues related to the environment, food, chemicals and
energy supply pose serious threats to nations' success and
stability. The challenge to provide for a rapidly growing global
population has made it imperative to find new technological routes
to increase the production of consumables while also bearing in
mind the biosphere's ability to regenerate resources. Microbial
biomass is a bioresource that provides effective solutions to these
challenges. Divided into eight parts, the book explores microalgal
production systems, life cycle assessment and the bio-economy of
biofuels from microalgae, process integration and process
intensification applied to microalgal biofuels production. In
addition, it discusses the main fuel products obtained from
microalgae, summarizing a range of useful energy products derived
from algae-based systems, and outlines future developments. Given
the book's breadth of coverage and extensive bibliography, it
offers an essential resource for researchers and industry
professionals working in renewable energy.
Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering,
Volume I - Fundamentals, Technologies, and Management is a
comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge about food
engineering and processing, under sustainable engineering
perspective. This book includes disruptive approaches that will
potentially enable the food industry for the transition to
sustainable production. Divided into four parts, the book explores
(i) fundamentals of sustainable food, (ii) conventional
technologies in the food industry, (iii) sustainabile emerging
technologies in food industries, and (iv) sustainable management in
food industries. The book is an invaluable reference resource for
students, researchers, graduates, and professionals, in general,
who wish to gain knowledge in the engineering and food processing
area as well as about sustainable food industry practices.
This handbook discusses the latest developments in biorefinery
technologies for waste-to-energy conversion. The growing global
population and the accompanying increase in consumption and waste
production make it urgent to find the best possible use of our
resources. A sustainable waste management under the biorefinery
concept has great potential to support a sustainable circular
economy and green energy production. This handbook is divided into
four parts. First, the reader is introduced to the fundamentals and
recent trends of waste-to-energy technologies. The second part
describes in detail the current status, challenges, and potential
of the different feedstocks used for waste-to-energy conversion.
Here, municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, oils and greases
generated during food preparation, industrial wastewaters, and
agricultural wastes, to name a few, are introduced. In the third
part, numerous waste-to-energy technologies are discussed in
detail, including anaerobic digestion, composting, gasification,
plasma technology, thermal cracking, and others. Advantages and
optimization potentials of these technologies for efficient residue
management, quality and yield are highlighted. Finally, the
handbook discusses social, environmental and economic aspects of
waste-to-energy biorefinery technologies. Readers will learn more
about the major bottlenecks and solutions in bioenergy
commercialization, the logistics of biomass supply and the carbon
footprint of waste biorefineries. The ideas and technologies
presented in this book contribute to the UN Sustainable Development
Goal (SDG) of "Affordable and Clean Energy". This book is a useful
reference for postgraduate students and researchers interested in
biorefinery and biofuel technologies, both in academia- and
commercial laboratories. Early career scientists can use it to fast
track into the field. Advanced scientists will find it helpful in
gaining a broader overview of the field beyond their area of
specialization.
The Pigments from Microalgae Handbook presents the current state of
knowledge on pigment production using microalgae-based processes,
and covers both the scientific fundamentals of this technology and
its practical applications. It addresses biology, chemistry,
biochemistry, analysis and engineering aspects, as well as
applications of natural pigments in photosynthetic organisms. The
book also describes the analytical procedures associated with the
characterization of pigments and the engineering aspects of
microalgal pigment production. It considers the three major classes
of pigments(chlorophylls, carotenoids and phycobiliproteins)
produced and surveys the main commercial applications of these
chemicals. The book offers a valuable source of information for
industrial researchers and practitioners in industrial
biotechnology, as it covers various engineering aspects of
microalgal pigment production, such as bioreactors and
bioprocesses, industrial extraction processes, and the bioeconomy
of production including life-cycle assessment. The book will also
be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of
biochemistry, food chemistry, and industrial microbiology.
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Chlorophyll (Hardcover)
Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Queiroz Zepka, Maria Isabel Queiroz
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R3,652
Discovery Miles 36 520
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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3rd Generation Biofuels: Disruptive Technologies to Enable
Commercial Production is a comprehensive volume on all aspects of
algal biofuels, offering the latest advances on commercial
implementation. In addition to the fundamentals, the book discusses
all applied aspects of 3rd generation biofuels production,
including design approaches, unit operations of the upstream and
downstream biomass processing, and every potential microalgae-based
energy product, including microbial fuel cells. Policy, economic,
environmental, and regulatory issues are addressed in a dedicated
section. Finally, the book presents pilot and demonstration-scale
projects for 3rd generation biofuels production in the format of a
white paper. Each chapter reviews the state of the art, discusses
the disruptive technological approaches that will potentially
enable large-scale production, and concludes with specific
recommendations on how to achieve commercial competitiveness. The
book provides readers with an invaluable reference for researchers,
graduates, and practitioners working in the areas of renewable
energy, bioenergy and alternative fuels, and biotechnology.
Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact:
Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment covers trending
topics on the environmental impact of systems of production,
putting emphasis on lifecycle assessment (LCA). This methodology is
one of the most important tools of analysis, as mathematical models
are applied that will quantify the systematic inputs and outputs of
the processes in order to evaluate the sustainability of industrial
processes and products. In this sense, LCA is mainly a tool to
support environmental decision-making that analyzes the
environmental impacts of products and technologies from a lifecycle
perspective. The emergence of ever-larger global issues, such as
the energy dilemma, the changing climate and the scarcity of
natural resources, such as water, has boosted the search for tools
capable of ensuring the reliability of the results published by the
industries, and has become an important tool in order to achieve
sustainability and environmental preservation. Thus, lifecycle
assessment (LCA), including carbon footprint valuation is necessary
to ensure better internal management.
The Handbook of Microalgae-based Processes and Products provides a
complete overview of all aspects involved in the production and
utilization of microalgae resources at commercial scale. Divided
into four parts (fundamentals, microalgae-based processes,
microalgae-based products, and engineering approaches applied to
microalgal processes and products), the book explores the
microbiology and metabolic aspects of microalgae, microalgal
production systems, wastewater treatment based in microalgae, CO2
capture using microalgae, microalgae harvesting techniques, and
extraction and purification of biomolecules from microalgae. It
covers the largest number of microalgal products of commercial
relevance, including biogas, biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen,
single-cell protein, single-cell oil, biofertilizers, pigments,
polyunsaturated fatty acids, bioactive proteins, peptides and amino
acids, bioactive polysaccharides, sterols, bioplastics,
UV-screening compounds, and volatile organic compounds. Moreover,
it presents and discusses the available engineering tools applied
to microalgae biotechnology, such as process integration, process
intensification, and techno-economic analysis applied to microalgal
processes and products, microalgal biorefineries, life cycle
assessment, and exergy analysis of microalgae-based processes and
products. The coverage of a broad range of potential microalgae
processes and products in a single volume makes this handbook an
indispensable reference for engineering researchers in academia and
industry in the fields of bioenergy, sustainable development, and
high-value compounds from biomass, as well as graduate students
exploring those areas. Engineering professionals in bio-based
industries will also find valuable information here when planning
or implementing the use of microalgal technologies.
Handbook of Food and Feed from Microalgae: Production, Application,
Regulation, and Sustainability is a comprehensive resource on all
aspects of using microalgae in food and feed. This book covers
applied processes, including compounds found in microalgae
applicable in food and feed, food products developed with
microalgae biomass in the composition, the use of microalgae in
animal nutrition, and challenges and recent advances. Written by
global leading experts on microalgae, the book's sections discuss
the fundamentals of food and feed from microalgae, including its
biodiversity, biogeography, genomics, nutritional purposes and
compounds found within microalgae like proteins, vitamins and
antioxidants. In addition, the book explains the incorporation of
microalgae into meat, dairy, beverages and wheat products, as well
as in real-world food applications in aquaculture, mollusk, poultry
and pet feeding. The last two sections cover challenges and issues
such as bioavailability and bio-accessibility and how to address
safety, regulatory, market, economics and environment concerns.
This book presents an overview of interdisciplinarity linked to the
application of the life cycle analysis tool. Also, through this
environmental approach, it is possible to direct the practical
transition of the development of production systems. Therefore, the
dissemination of studies involving this tool is essential to
understand the criteria and indicators of sustainability. Divided
into seven parts, the book provides the reader with a general
contextualization of the life cycle assessment tool and its
application guidelines. It also presents studies involving
scenarios agronomic, agricultural, energy, and emerging, as well as
chemical industrial processes in order to exemplify and disseminate
its huge scope of application. Finally, this book provides an
expanded view for students, researchers, and professionals in the
environmental field, who are interested in improving the
sustainable performance of the most diverse agro-industrial
segments.
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Waste-to-Energy (WtE) (Hardcover)
Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Queiroz Zepka, Maria Isabel Queiroz
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R6,486
R4,918
Discovery Miles 49 180
Save R1,568 (24%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Shale gas is natural gas that is tightly locked within low
permeability sedimentary rock. Recent technological advances are
making shale gas reserves increasingly accessible and their
recovery more economically feasible. This resource is already being
exploited in South Africa, China, the United States and Canada.
Shale gas is being produced in large volumes, and will likely be
developed in coming years on every continent except Antarctica.
Depending on factors such as future natural gas prices and
government regulations, further development of shale gas resources
could potentially span many decades and involve the drilling of
tens of thousands of hydraulically fractured horizontal wells. This
development is changing long-held expectations about oil and gas
resource availability; several observers have characterized it as a
game changer. Abundant, close to major markets, and relatively
inexpensive to produce, shale gas represents a major new source of
fossil energy. However, the rapid expansion of shale gas
development over the past decade has occurred without a
corresponding investment in monitoring and research addressing the
impacts on the environment, public health, and communities. The
primary concerns are the degradation of the quality of groundwater
and surface water (including the safe disposal of large volumes of
wastewater); the risk of increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
(including fugitive methane emissions during and after production),
thus exacerbating anthropogenic climate change; disruptive effects
on communities and land; and adverse effects on to human health.
Other concerns include the local release of air contaminants and
the potential for triggering small- to moderate-sized earthquakes
in seismically active areas. These concerns will vary by region.
The shale gas regions can be found near urban areas, presenting a
large diversity in their geology, hydrology, land uses, and
population density. The phrase environmental impacts from shale gas
development masks many regional differences that are essential to
understanding these impacts.
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