Algal Bioreactors

Prof. Eduardo Jacob-Lopes is currently associate professor at the Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. He is a technical and scientific consultant of several companies, agencies, and scientific journals. He has more than 600 publications/communications and has registered 15 patents. His research interest includes biotechnology and bioengineering with emphasis on microalgal biotechnology. Dr. Leila Queiroz Zepka is currently an Associate professor at the Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). She has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. She has published more than 500 scientific publications/communications, which include 10 books, 50 book chapters, 100 original research papers, 350 research communications in national and international conferences, and 12 patents. She is a member of the editorial board of 5 journals and acts as a reviewer for several national and international journals. Her research interest includes microalgal biotechnology with an emphasis on microalgae-based products. Dr. Mariany Costa Deprá is currently a researcher at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. She is a technical and scientific consultant of companies and scientific journals. With more than 100 publications/communications, her research interest includes process engineering with emphasis on sustainability metrics and indicators.

Part I - Fundamentals of science in downstream processes for the production of renewables 1. Downstream principles in algae bioprocesses for the production of renewables 2. Importance of biological knowledge in downstream processes for the production of renewables 3. Conventional and advanced procedures in downstream processes: An overview Part II - Engineering and technology approach to harvesting, dewatering, and drying processes for the production of renewables 4. Implementing sedimentation techniques in downstream processes in algae bioreactors 5. Advances in primary recovery for algae bioreactors: The centrifugation role 6. Current progress of filtration techniques for recovery of production of renewables 7. Conventional and alternative flotation techniques for algae harvesting 8. Recent advancement of coagulation-flocculation in downstream processes from algae bioreactors 9. Conventional drying methods to algae biomass: Their applications and recent advances Part III – Cell rupture, extraction, and separation/purification methods of target molecules for the production of renewables 10. Effect of bead milling as pre-treatment for cell physical disruption for renewables production exploitation 11. Potential applications of high-pressure homogenization in cell algae disruption: A path for production renewables 12. Microwave pre-treatment: A promising strategy to improve the clean extraction yield of renewables 13. Algae renewable extracts: The benefits and drawbacks of ultrasound-assisted 14. Applications of pulsed electric field treatments for the enhancement of cell physical disruption for the production of renewables 15. Steam-explosion pre-treatment for algae cell disruption: A suggestion for renewable production expansion 16. The mechanisms of hydrothermal as cell thermal disruption for the production of renewables 17. Cycles of freeze-thawing as an efficient method to cell disruption 18. Osmotic shock pre-treatment: An alternative cell disruption for wet algae biomass extraction 19. Enzymatic treatment as cell biological disruption for the production of renewables 20. Surface-active agents for the disruption of algae cell walls: An alternative for lipid extraction 21. Conventional solvent extraction and alternative greener solvents – a sustainable perspective 22. Supercritical fluids as novel cell disruption procedures for the production of renewables 23. Techniques of adsorption, partition, ion-exchange and molecular exclusion for separation extracts: Chromatography approaches 24. Advances in separation by ionic strength: Ionic liquids interactions and ion-exchange chromatography purification Part IV – Energy demand, costs, sustainability strategies, and innovations for downstream processes in the production of renewables 25. Energy demand and efficiency applied to downstream processes for the production of renewables 26. Techno-economic analysis of downstream processes in algae bioprocesses for the production of renewables 27. How can the process intensification concept and the optimization of downstream steps become algae bioprocesses more sustainable? 28. The importance of downstream processes in algae biorefinery concept 29. Recent patents and relevant innovations in technology and methods for downstream processes