Integrated Wastewater Management and Valorization using Algal Cultures provides a holistic view on coupled wastewater treatment and biomass production for energy and value-added products using algal cultures. Algal cultures provide low-cost nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) treatment and recovery from wastewaters, carbon-dioxide sequestration from waste gases, value-added generation in the form of bio-energy and bio-based chemicals, biosorption of heavy metals and biogas upgrading. The book addresses all these aspects in terms of role of algal cultures in environmental sustainability and circular economy. The production of high value products is addressed through pretreatment and anaerobic co-digestion of wastewater-derived microalgal biomass and microalgal biorefineries. The simultaneous dissolution and uptake of nutrients in microalgal treatment of anaerobic digestate is discussed, as is coupled electrocoagulation and algal cultivation for the treatment of anaerobic digestate and algal biomass production. Finally, optimization of algal biomass production is discussed using metagenomics and machine learning tools, and scale-up potential and the limitations of integrated wastewater-derived microalgal biorefineries is discussed.
Integrated Wastewater Management and Valorization using Algal Cultures offers an integrated resource on wastewater treatment, biomass production, bioenergy and value-added product generation for researchers in bioenergy and renewable energy, environmental science and wastewater treatment, as well as environmental and chemical engineering.
Demirer, Goksel N.: - Dr. Goksel N. Demirer is a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA. He has been a visiting professor at Tuzla University (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Washington State University (Pullman, WA), RMIT University (Australia), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Villanova University (Villanova, PA), and Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI). He has been working on anaerobic and algal environmental biotechnology, waste valorization, resource efficiency, sustainability, pollution prevention, and industrial ecology for over 20 years.
Uludag-Demirer, Sibel: - Dr. Sibel Uludag-Demirer is research specialist in the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department and manager of the Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC) at Michigan State University, Michigan, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University (Tennessee, USA), Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Uludag-Demirer has been a visiting professor in RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and Washington State University (Pullman, WA). She worked in Villanova University (Villanova, PA) as a Marie-Curie Fellow and Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) as a lecturer. Her research interests are wastewater treatment, and recovery of valuables from waste using biological and chemical techniques. She has worked on algal biotechnology related research since 2014 with a focus of N and P removal from different waste streams and CO2 capture from flue gas using algae cultures.
