Contents
1 Energy from Microalgae: A Brief Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Eduardo Jacob-Lopes, Leila Queiroz Zepka and Maria Isabel Queiroz
2 Microalgal Production Systems with Highlights of Bioenergy
Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Mariana Manzoni Maroneze and Maria Isabel Queiroz
3 Process Integration Applied to Microalgal Biofuels
Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Alcinda Patrícia de Carvalho Lopes,
Francisca Maria Loureiro Ferreira dos Santos, Vítor Jorge Pais Vilar
and José Carlos Magalhães Pires
4 Process Intensification of Biofuel Production from
Microalgae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Saurabh Joshi and Parag Gogate
5 Microalgae Biorefineries for Energy and Coproduct
Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Pierre-Louis Gorry, León Sánchez and Marcia Morales
6 Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels from Microalgae . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Mariany Costa Deprá, Eduardo Jacob-Lopes and Leila Queiroz Zepka
7 The Bioeconomy of Microalgal Biofuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Kun Peng, Jiashuo Li, Kailin Jiao, Xianhai Zeng, Lu Lin,
Sharadwata Pan and Michael K. Danquah
8 Biofuels from Microalgae: Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Lucas Reijnders
9 Biofuels from Microalgae: Energy and Exergy Analysis for the
Biodiesel Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Daissy Lorena Restrepo-Serna, Mariana Ortiz-Sánchez
and Carlos Ariel Cardona-Alzate
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