This book discusses various renewable energy resources and technologies. Topics covered include recent advances in photobioreactor design; microalgal biomass harvesting, drying, and processing; and technological advances and optimised production systems as prerequisites for achieving a positive energy balance.

It highlights alternative resources that can be used to replace fossil fuels, such as algal biofuels, biodiesel, bioethanol, and biohydrogen. Further, it reviews microbial technologies, discusses an immobilization method, and highlights the efficiency of enzymes as a key factor in biofuel production.

In closing, the book outlines future research directions to increase oil yields in microalgae, which could create new opportunities for lipid-based biofuels, and provides an outlook on the future of global biofuel production.

Given its scope, the book will appeal to all researchers and engineers working in the renewable energy sector.

Discusses various renewable energy resources, e.g. algal biofuels and lipid-based biofuels Highlights promising renewable energy technologies, such as photobioreactors and microbial technologies Provides an outlook on the future of global biofuel production

Inhalt
Technologies for Biofuel Production: Current Development, Challenges and future prospects.- Biochemical Strategies for Enhanced Biofuel Production.- Photobiological production of Biohydrogen: Recent Advances and Strategy.- Bioreactor for Microalgal Cultivation Systems: Strategy and Development.- Biophotolysis-Based Hydrogen Production by Cyanobacteria.- Phototrophic Microbial Consortium: A Technology for Enhanced Biofuel Production.- Chemical Conversion in Biodiesel refinery.- Fermentation of Oil extraction: Bioethanol, Acetone, Butanol Production.- Thermochemical Conversion: Bio-oil and Syngas Production.- Bioenergy and climate change; greenhouse gas mitigation.- Sorghum: an excellent crop for renewable fuels production.- Bioenergy Crops: Recent Advances and Future Outlook.- Agriculture Waste: A Suitable Source for Biofuel Production.- Lignocellulosic Biomass for Bioethanol Production: Strategies to Improve Process Efficiency Through Microbes.- Current and Future Perspectives on Lipid-based Biofuels.- Anaerobic Digestion: Biogas Production from Agro-industrial Wastewater, Food Waste, and Biomass.- Prospects for Biofuel Production in India: A Review of Technologies and Policies.- Global Scenario of Biofuel Production: Past, Present and Future.