Microalgae: Windows of Opportunity

by Abhishek Chauhan, Deepak Bansal, Mona Sharma

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Microalgae windows of opportunity is a novel scientific effort by the editors which discusses the potential of microalgae to bring environmental sustainability into our society to tackle environmental problems like pollution, water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion and climate change. Microalgae with their simple nature, but varied applications could provide environment friendly and sustainable solutions to such problems. This book will also provide useful summarized information to young researchers, environmentalists, academicians and industrialists for advance research in the field of microalgae.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Biohydrogen production: a step towards clean environment/Sharma Mona, Bansal Deepak and Abhishek Chauhan. 2. World of microalgae: a comprehensive applied scientific approach/Abhishek Chauhan, Sharma Mona and P. Kaushik. 3. Microalgae as a potential feedstock for biodiesel production/Kulvinder Bajwa and Narsi R. Bishnoi. 4. Microalgae as a potential biofuel for defence applications/Pritam Sangwan and S. Mary Celin. 5. Microalgae: global diversity and applications/Jasvinder Singh and Jayati Trivedi. 6. Algal photobiorectors for biomass production/Geetika Tuteja and Sharma Mona. 7. Microalgal biomass a renewable source for bioethanol production/Anita Singh and Somvir Bajar. 8. Biomass harvesting techniques for microalgae: status and challenges/Bala Kiran, Kratika Pathak, Neelam Patidar, Ritunesh Kumar and Devendra Deshmukh. 9. Algal biofertilizers : Methods of soil management/Rani Nisha, Madhavi Joshi and Anand Sagar. 10. Integrated approaches for sustainable biofuel production using algal feedstock: a review/Jyoti Sharma and Narsi R. Bishnoi. 11. Microalgae: a novel biosorbent for detoxification of heavy metals/Rachna Bhateria. 12. Beneficial applications of blue green algae in agriculture/Rajinder Kaur and Dinesh Goyal. 13. Use of microalgae for CO2 bio-mitigation/Avik Banerjee, Sheeja Jagadevan, Pratyoosh Shukla and Chiranjib Banerjee. 14. Microalgae as a source of value added products/Archana Tiwari. 15. Role of microalgae in bioremoval of dyes from wastewaters/Sharma Mona, Anoop Yadav, Mohini Singh and Virendra Kumar. Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Abhishek Chauhan

Dr. Abhishek Chauhan is working as a Senior Microbilogist at Shriram Institute for Industrial Research, New Delhi. He has received his doctorate degree in Microbiology from Gurukul kangri University, Hardwar, Uttarakhand. He is a perfect blend of Research and Development and Analytical Micro-biological capabilities in his work. Beside this, he is involved in various sponsoredprojects both at national and international levels. Also supervised some graduate and post graduate student under him. He was got five research papers and four abstracts published in Indian and foreign journals. He possesses analytical capabilities, with evergreen aptitude ready to accept challenging trouble shooting tasks in Industrial Microbiology. Dr. Chauhan is an active member of the Indian Science Congress Association and Society for Plants Research, India.