Microbial Strategies for Techno-economic Biofuel Production

Biofuels are one of the most sustainable options when it comes to renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels. Biotechnological processes, such as microbial fermentation, are used to produce energy from waste biomass by converting organic substrates into biofuels. This book discusses practices to improve and enrich various microbial communities in order to enhance sustainable and economical biofuel production. It also evaluates various strategies to develop potential microorganisms and microbial consortia to produce highly efficient biofuels at a relatively low cost.

Chapter 1. An introduction to algal biofuels.- Chapter 2. Paper mill sludge as a potential feedstock for microbial ethanol production.- Chapter 3. Application of hydrolytic enzymes in biorefinery and its future prospects.- Chapter 4.  Cultivation of microalgae –effects of nutrients focus on biofuels.- Chapter 5. Microalgae as an efficient feedstock biomass for Biofuel Production.- Chapter 6. Microalgae potential feedstock for production of Biohydrogen and Bioactive compounds.- Chapter 7. Algal Biofuels: An economic and effective alternative of fossil fuels.- Chapter 8. Nanocatalysts to improve the Production of microbial fuel Applications.- Chapter 9. Microbial system: An emerging application in the bioenergy production.- Chapter 10. An introduction of metagenomics and its application in microbial fuel production.