Algal Biorefinery

Sanjeet Mehariya is Researcher at Center for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Dr. Mehariya earned a PhD in Engineering at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy. He has collaborated with national and international stakeholders, including policymakers, industries, and prominent RTD institutes in the ­ eld of biobased economy. He has worked at CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India; Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea; ENEA-Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy; and Sapienza— University of Rome, Italy. He has published more than 90 research and review articles and has edited five books. Bikash Kumar is a Research Associate in the Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, IIT Indore IIT Indore, Simrol, Indore, India Dr. Shashi Kant Bhatia is an Associate professor in the Department of Biological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea, and has more than ten years’ experience in the area of biowastes valorization into bioenergy, biochemicals, and biomaterials. He earned an MSc and a PhD in biotechnology at Himachal Pradesh University (India). He has qualified JNU combined biotechnology entrance, DBT-JRF, GATE, CSIR exams. Dr. Bhatia has worked as a Brain Pool Post Doc Fellow at Konkuk University (2014–2016), South Korea. Dr. Bhatia has contributed extensively to the industrial press and served as an editorial board member of Sustainability and Energies journal and associate editor of Frontier of Microbiology, Microbial Cell Factories, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, Bioprocess and Biosytem Engineering, Carbohydrate Technology and Applications, 3 Biotech, and PLOS One journals. He has published more than 200 research and review articles on industrial biotechnology, bioenergy production, biomaterial, biotransformation, microbial fermentation, and enzyme technology in international scientific peer-reviewed journals and holds 15 international patents. He has also edited 5 books on microbial biotechnology. Dr. Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan (OPK) (Ph.D.) is a Chief (Microbiology) officer at Austin Elements Inc., Houston, Texas, USA. He has over 15 years of international research experience in the field of environmental microbiology and biotechnology. He also achieved few meritorious awards such as Australia-Thailand Early Career Research Exchange Award-2014, Sêr Cymru National Research Network for Low Carbon Energy and Environment Writing Fellowship and Award-2018 (UK), and Ramalingaswamy Re-Entry Fellowship-2018 (India). Dr. OPK serve as a peer review member assessor for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-USA, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada, Horizon H2020-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships-Europe, Australian Research Council-Australia, and the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)- Belgium. He is associated editor for the Frontiers of Microbiotechnology and guest edited few special issues for few publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and MDPI. He has published more than 65 research/review articles in Scopus indexed journals, 4 books, 10 chapters and 2 editorials. His research interests and knowledge spans on various research topics including solid waste landfilling, Composting, Microbial engineering, Greenhouse gas fermentation into value products, waste biorefinery, Bioreactor engineering and Bioleaching of metals.

1. Characteristics of waste and their treatment via algal technologies with special emphasis on current status and prospects in environmental remediation and acclimatizing to changing climate. 2. Understanding carbon emission and minimizing carbon footprint via algal biomass based biorefinery technologies i.e., Algal biomass-based carbon sequestrations and its impacts on environment conservation. 3. Potential of Algae from marine sources for future largescale application to meet food, feed and environmental sustainability issues. 4. Advances in technologies for biotransformation of algal biomass into high value products. 5. Algae as potential source of biofuels Biodiesel, biofertilizers, biochar food, feed, metabolites and medicine etc., utilizing global temperature rise and carbon emission as potential substrate and energy source etc 6. Wastewater treatment via Biotechnological advances for utilization of algae, microalgae and cyanobacteria for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 7. Role of algal based technologies for bioremediation of pharma wastes from wastewater streams of pharmaceuticals industries. 8. Role of algal based technologies in domestic wastewater treatment for resources recovery and water reuse 9. Role of advanced modeling techniques for development of highly efficient phycology-based technologies and better understanding of mechanism and kinetics of algal based bioremediations 10. Bottlenecks in the algal based technologies in the path of industrial commercialization and application in environmental protection 11. Algal biomass as potential source of food, feed medicine utilizing global temperature rise and carbon emission as potential substrate and energy source. 12. Bottlenecks and opportunities towards practical aspects of microalgae-based biorefineries 13. Future prospect of development of integrated wastewater and algal biorefineries and its impact on biodiversity and environment 14. Life cycle assessment and technoeconomic sustainability assessment of existing algal based technologies for future implications 15. Environmental Impact Assessment of developed and developing algal based technologies for future sustainability