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Algal Biorefineries : Volume 1: Cultivation of Cells and Products by Rakesh Bajpai, Mark Zappi, Stephen Dufreche, Ramalingam Subramaniam, Ales Prokop (auth.), Rakesh Bajpai, Aleš Prokop, Mark Zappi (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Over the past century, the majority of chemical and energy needs of our industrial society has originated from fossilized carbon sources (coal, crude oil, natural gas). Increasingly, there is a realization that utilization of the fossilized carbon sources has adverse environmental consequences in the form of increasing concentration of greenhouse gases. We are also becoming aware of the limited nature of these resources. As a result, considerable efforts are being made to produce chemicals and fuels from renewable resources such as forest products, agricultural residues and plant products. All of these systems capture solar energy and atmospheric carbon dioxide as a part of the natural carbon cycle. Serious research efforts are also underway, targeting cultivation of photosynthetic autotrophic microbes for the production of biomass and lipids. In this category, algae appears to offer the most potential for capturing solar energy and atmospheric carbon dioxide and delivering sufficient quantities of biomass/lipids that can offset the fossilized carbon utilization in a meaningful manner without impacting food output adversely. However, several advances, both technologically as well a

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Author

Rakesh Bajpai, Mark Zappi, Stephen Dufreche, Ramalingam Subramaniam, Ales Prokop (auth.), Rakesh Bajpai, Aleš Prokop, Mark Zappi (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9789400774933

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Science, Technology