Microalgae As Promising Source of Commercial Bioproducts: Advances and Emerging Technologies in Bioactive Compounds, Biofuels, Food and Biorefineries

This book contains a wide compendium of information, which includes algal culture basics and the newest scientific and industrial advances in microalgal applications, including traditional uses such as renewable energy biofuels, wastewater treatment, edible products, aquaculture and livestock production. It also presents emerging perspectives of microalgae valorization, for example, health/cosmetic products, biofertilizers, bioplastics, vaccine delivery systems, nanotechnology and enzymes bio-factories.

Moreover, this book provides a comprehensive overview for those readers that are initiating the study about microalgae potential as a renewable source of valuable commercial products and highlights the state-of-the-art on the innovative advances for scientific researchers, students and microalgae commercial producers, which already focused in developing microalgae biotechnology for bioenergy, food, and other applications. Also, the role of microalgae technology in the blue economy is analyzed, an aspect with high relevance in the present and the future time, but which is regularly understudied.

Dr. David Ulises Santos Ballardo is a research scientist at the Research Center of Food and Development in Mexico, is interested in using second-generation and microalgae biomass to develop biorefineries, including biofuels and other valuable products. He has more than 14 years of field and laboratory experience on this topic, having published more than 27 publications (articles, chapters, books, and divulgation publications, published, in press, or submitted) of research and scientific outreach. 

Dr. Sergio Rossi is a research scientist specialized in marine natural resources and biological oceanography, focused in health indicators of coastal benthic suspension feeder populations, flows of matter and energy in the benthic-pelagic coupling, the animal forests as carbon sinks, and the management/conservation of benthic marine wildlife, with also a wide experience in articles publications, and also in editing and publishing books in Springer-Nature. He has now more than 180 scientific publications (published, in press or submitted). He has an H factor of 40 (SCOPUS). He is professor in the Universidade Federal do Cearà and Università del Salento, and also Scientific Director of Underwater Gardens International.