Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Molecular Pharming in the Chloroplast of <i>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</i> for the Production of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins
(Alma Lorena Almaraz-Delgado, José Luis Castrejón Flores
and Jesús Agustín Badillo Corona, UPIBI-Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Barrio La Laguna Ticoman, Mexico)
2. Review on Instrumentation, Modelling and Automatic Control for Microalgae Culture
(I. Chairez, Bioprocesses Department, UPIBI-IPN)
3. The Biofuel Potential of the Green Colonial Microalga <i>Botryococcus braunii</i>
(Ivette Cornejo-Corona, Hem R. Thapa, Timothy P. Devarenne, and Edmundo Lozoya-Gloria, Departamento de Ingeniería Genética CINVESTAV-IPN Irapuato, Gto., México, and others)
4. Effect of Culture Conditions on the Quantity and Quality of Lipids: its Importance on Biodiesel Synthesis
(Luis Fernández Linares, Eder Gutiérrez Márquez and Aarón Millán Oropeza, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnología del Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
5. Microalgae in Livestock Nutrition
(Flórez-Miranda L., Martínez-Roldán A.J. and Cañizares-Villanueva R.O., Laboratorio de Biotecnología de Microalgas. Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Delegación Gustavo A. Madero, México D.F. Código Postal 07360. México, D.F.)
6. Hydrogen and Polyhidroxybutyrate (PHB) Production by a Photoheterotrophic Mixed Culture
(E. I. García-Peña and R. A. Gonzalez-Garcia, Bioprocesses Department, UPIBI-Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, and others)
7. Software Sensor for Microalgae Culture: Theoretical Development, Numerical Solutions and Real Time Implementations
(N. Martínez, A. Poznyak, I. Chairez, Bioprocesses Department, UPIBI-IPN, and others)
8. Photobioreactors: Improving the Biomass Productivity
(Martínez-Roldán A. J. and Cañizares-Villanueva, R. O.
Laboratorio de Biotecnología de Microalgas. Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Delegación Gustavo A. Madero, México D.F. Código Postal, México, D.F.)
9. Measuring Sustainable Development In Biofuel Production From Microalgae
(Mariana Ortega Ramírez, Mario Giraldi Díaz and Gemma Cervantes Torre-Marín, Research Group on Industrial Ecology (GIEI), UPIBI, Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
10. Technologies for the Production of Biodiesel from Microalgae. Biomass Production the Main Challenge
(Citlally Ramirez Lopez and Luis Fernandez Linares, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnología del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Mexico, D.F.)
11. Dewatering and Dehydration of Microalgae
(Juan Rodríguez Ramírez, Lilia Méndez Lagunas, Instituto Politecnico Naciona, CIIDIR Unidad Oaxaca, Hornos, Sta., Cruz Xoxocotlan, Oaxaca Mexico, Mexico)
12. Microalgae as Source of High Added-value Compounds: Carotenoids
(León Sánchez and Marcia Morales, Doctorado en Biotecnología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, México, DF, Mexico, and others)
13. Utilization, Isolation and Characterization of Chlorella Vulgaris for Carbon and Waste Water Sequestration Treatment
(P.S.Syed Shabudeen, Chemistry and EnvironmentalScience, KumaraguruCollege of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu)
14. Biogas Production and Upgrading Using Microalgae
(Alma Lilia Toledo Cervantes, and Marcia Guadalupe Morales Ibarría, Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana UAM- Iztapalapa, México, and others)
15. Recovery of Microalgae by Coagulation-Flocculation-Sedimentation and Characterization of the Produced Pastes
(Luis G. Torres Bustillos, Bioprocesses Department. UPIBI- Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Calle Acueducto s/n. Col. Barrio La Laguna-Ticoman. Del Gustavo Madero. Mexico DF, Mexico)
Index