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An Integration of Phycoremediation Processes in Wastewater Treatment reviews the potential of microalgae to treat wastewater containing highly recalcitrant compounds whose degradation is not achieved by the conventional existing treatments. In addition, the book describes how the microalgae collected after wastewater treatment can be used for obtaining added-value products, hence closing the loop and contributing to a circular economy. Finally, the technoeconomical aspects of this green technology are addressed, along with the design and development of photobioreactors, genetic aspects, metagenomics and metabolomics.
List of contents
1. Lipid extraction and biodiesel production from microalgae: Recent advances
2. Algal Biomass Production Coupled to Wastewater Treatment
3. Bioprospecting of novel algal species with nanobiotechnology
4. ROLE OF MICROALGAE IN DEGRADATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS FROM WATER
5. Algae mediated technologies in biotreatment of phenolic wastewaters
6. Microalgae: A potential tool for wastewater treatment and its biotechnological applications
7. Trends in Photobioreactor technology for microalgal biomass production via CO2 sequestration: bottlenecks and breakthroughs
8. Algae: The High Potential Resource for Biofuel Production
9. Bioactive compounds from microalgae cultivated in wastewaters
10. Wastewater treatment coupled with algal biomass production
11. Microbial Communities: An Effective Tool for Cleaning Environment
12. An overview of various algal biomolecules and its applications
13. Use of Bioprospecting approach to reveal the potential of various algal species for value added compounds
14. Algal biomass production coupled with wastewater treatment
15. An Innovative Role of Bioactive Compounds from Microalgae
16. Bioactive Compounds from Microalgae
17. Algal biofuels
18. Genetic Engineered Algae: Recent Developments and the Promising Engender for Wastewater treatment
19. Waste gas and wastewater into biodiesel: Closing the loop on the circular energy economy
20. Agriculture waste bioremediation with algae and potential for methane production
21. Microalgae: Classification, bioactives, medicinal properties, industrial applications and future prospective
22. Genetic Engineering of Algae
23. Bioactive Compounds from Microalgae
About the author
Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.
Susana Rodríguez-Couto (female) got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. In March 2021 she is joining LUT School of Engineering Science at Mikkeli, Finland, as a Full Professor in biological water treatment. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.Celia Bertha Vargas de la Cruz. She is Assistant Professor of Biotechnology and microbiology at San Marcos University Lima-Perú. Her experience in biotechnology, applying omics has allowed to use living organisms for the removal of toxic pollutants form liquid and hazardous waste. She is handling various projects on waste water treatment, biofiltration, environmental sustainability.Prof. (Dr.) Jayanta Kumar Biswas is a Professor at Department of Ecological Studies and International Centre for Ecological Engineering, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He obtained M.Sc. in Zoology, M.Phil. in Ecology and Ph.D. for his work on Eco technological management of aquatic systems. His spectrum of research interest and expertise span the following focal areas: ecotoxicology and bioremediation of toxic metal(loid)s; ecological engineering and eco technological remediation of water and soil contaminants; environmental microbiology; Nano biotechnology; dynamics of nutrients and toxic contaminants in water and soil; bio regenerative reclamation of wastewater. A consistent rank holder all through his academic career Professor Biswas received many scholarships, awards and fellowships including Fellow, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FAScT), Fellow, National Environmentalists Association (FNEA), Zoological Society of India (FZSI), Zoological Society, Kolkata (FZS), Senior Scientist Award & Gold Medal (ZSI), Best Research Paper Award (AESA), Outstanding Reviewer Award (Chemosphere (Elsevier) & Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer); SRF (ICAR); National Merit Scholarship (MHRD, GoI), etc. He is credited with publishing 130 research papers in international and national journals. He is serving as editorial board member of several international journals of repute, namely Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier); Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer); Current Pollution Reports (Springer); Energy & Environment (SAGE). He visited several countries with government travel fellowships, to present research papers and chair scientific sessions in International conferences.
