3rd Generation Biofuels

Part I – Fundamentals

1. The choice of algae strain for the biofuel production: Native, genetically modified or microbial consortia

2. Criteria for the development of culture media applied to microalgae-based fuels production

3. Genome editing approaches applied to microalgae-based fuels

4. Biochemical engineering approaches to enhance production of microalgae-based fuels

Part II – From upstream to downstream processing

5. Impact of culture conditions on the microalgae-based fuels production

6. Strategies for process control applied to microalgae-based fuels production

7. Carbon dioxide capture and use to produce microalgae-based fuels

8. Wastewater, reclaimed water, and seawater in the production of microalga-based fuels

9. Unit operations applied to solid-liquid separation in microalgae-based processes

10. Unit operations applied to dry of microalgal biomass

11. Unit operations applied to cell disruption of microalgae

12. Process integration approaches applied to microalgal biofuels production

13. Process intensification techniques applied to microalgal biofuels production

14. Biofuels and chemicals from microalgae

15. Biorefinery of the microalgae-based products

16. Topology analysis of the 3rd generation biofuels

17. Nanotechnology approaches to enhance the development of biofuels from microalgae

18. Waste-to-energy approaches applied to microalgae-based systems

Part III – Microalgae-based energy products

19. Biodiesel from microalgae

20. Bioethanol from microalgae

21. Biomethane from microalgae

22. Biohydrogen from microalgae

23. Biobutanol from microalgae

24. Syngas from microalgae

25. Volatile organic compounds from microalgae

26. Biochar from microalgae

27. Production of renewable aviation fuel from microalgae

28. Direct combustion of microalgae biomass to generate bioelectricity

29. Microalgae-microbial fuel cells

Part IV – Policy, regulatory, economic, intellectual property, and environmental aspects

30. Energy policies in the context of the third-generation biofuels

31. Global profile and market potentials of the 3rd generation biofuels

32. Third-generation biofuels and food security

33. Bioeconomy of microalgae-based fuels

34. Cost-benefit analysis of third-generation biofuels

35. Environmental indicators of the microalgae-based fuels

36. Exergy analysis of the third-generation biofuels

37. Intellectual property and innovation in the context of the 3rd generation biofuels

38. Socio-economic aspects of the 3rd generation biofuels

39. Social acceptance of 3rd generation biofuels

Part V – Pilot projects and demonstration-scale: Case studies for biofuels production

40. Production of microalgae on source separated human urine

41. Practical guide to algal biomass production for biofuels and what can we learn from past successes and failures?

42. Challenges for microalgae cultivation in sugarcane processing wastewater (vinasse) for biodiesel production: from the bench to pilot-scale

43. The experiences of success and failure in the hybrid photobioreactors

44. The experiences of success and failure in the pilot and real scale photosynthetic biogas production

45. Best practices for bio-crude oil production at pilot-scale using continuous flow reactors