Microalgal feedstock for bioenergy: Opportunities and challenges

Cristiano Eduardo Rodrigues Reis; Mateus De Souza Amaral; Carla Cristina Almeida Loures; Patrícia Caroline Molgero Da Rós; Bo Hu; Hélcio José Izário Filho; Heizir Ferreira De Castro; Sônia Maria Flores Gianesella; Messias Borges Silva

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Microalgal feedstock for bioenergy: Opportunities and challenges

Cristiano Eduardo Rodrigues Reis, Mateus De Souza Amaral, Carla Cristina Almeida Loures, Patrícia Caroline Molgero Da Rós, Bo Hu, Hélcio José Izário Filho, Heizir Ferreira De Castro, Sônia Maria Flores Gianesella, Messias Borges Silva

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The utilization of algal feedstock for bioenergy can be considered as one of the greatest challenges for biosystems engineering in the near future. Some species of microalgae show high potential for oil accumulation and further utilization of its biomass for biogas generation, pyrolysis, ethanol production, and even as fertilizer. Microalgae can utilize CO₂ as carbon source and can also be grown on nonagricultural environments, such as wastewater facilities, industrial effluents, freshwater, and marine water habitats. The vast research field on microalgae engineering is due to the facts that it can be a source of energy and act as an air and water pollutants removal. There have been considerable advances in engineering its growth, in bioreactor designs, and on lipid accumulation due to chemical, biochemical, and genetic studies. Despite that, there are still some fundamental processing aspects that are considered challenges, either economical, ecological, or technical, such as biomass harvesting and the competition with the higher value products produced from algae, as proteins.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Biofuels in Brazil
Subtitle of host publication	Fundamental Aspects, Recent Developments, and Future Perspectives
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	367-392
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319050201
ISBN (Print)	3319050192, 9783319050195
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05020-1_17
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

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Reis, C. E. R., De Souza Amaral, M., Loures, C. C. A., Da Rós, P. C. M., Hu, B., Filho, H. J. I., De Castro, H. F., Gianesella, S. M. F., & Silva, M. B. (2014). Microalgal feedstock for bioenergy: Opportunities and challenges. In Biofuels in Brazil: Fundamental Aspects, Recent Developments, and Future Perspectives (pp. 367-392). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05020-1_17

Microalgal feedstock for bioenergy: Opportunities and challenges. / Reis, Cristiano Eduardo Rodrigues; De Souza Amaral, Mateus; Loures, Carla Cristina Almeida et al.
Biofuels in Brazil: Fundamental Aspects, Recent Developments, and Future Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, 2014. p. 367-392.

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Reis, CER, De Souza Amaral, M, Loures, CCA, Da Rós, PCM, Hu, B, Filho, HJI, De Castro, HF, Gianesella, SMF & Silva, MB 2014, Microalgal feedstock for bioenergy: Opportunities and challenges. in Biofuels in Brazil: Fundamental Aspects, Recent Developments, and Future Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, pp. 367-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05020-1_17

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