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Biofuels from Microalgae: Biohydrogen

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Energy from Microalgae

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Rapid industrialization and urbanization are mainly responsible for the energy crisis, environmental pollution and climate change. In addition, depletion of the fossil fuels is a major concern now. To confront these problems, it is essential to produce energy from sustainable and renewable energy sources. Hydrogen is widely considered as a clean and efficient energy carrier for the future because it does not produce carbon-based emission and has the highest energy density among any other known fuels. Due to the environmental and socioeconomic limitation associated with conventional processes for the hydrogen production, new approaches of producing hydrogen from biological sources have been greatly encouraged. From the perspective of sustainability, microalgae offer a promising source and have several advantages for the biohydrogen production. Microalgae are characterized as high rate of cell growth with superior photosynthetic efficiency and can be grown in brackish or wastewater on non-arable land. In recent years, biohydrogen production from microalgae via photolysis or being used as substrate in dark fermentation is gaining considerable interest. The present chapter describes the different methods involved in hydrogen production from microalgae. Suitability of the microalgae as a feedstock for the dark fermentation is discussed. This review also includes the challenges faced in hydrogen production from microalgae as well as the genetic and metabolic engineering approaches for the enhancement of biohydrogen production.

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Singh, H., Das, D. (2018). Biofuels from Microalgae: Biohydrogen. In: Jacob-Lopes, E., Queiroz Zepka, L., Queiroz, M. (eds) Energy from Microalgae . Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69093-3_10

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