Process engineering for the optimized cultivation and extraction of biomolecules from isolated microalgae

Abstract

Microalgae have remained an area of scientific research for eco-friendly renewable sources newlineof biodiesel production because of their high content of cellular lipids. Microalgae are rich newlinesources of other valuable biomolecules such as carbohydrates, proteins and pigments, newlinewhich have wide applications as ingredients in different cosmeceutical, pharmaceutical and newlinenutraceutical products. However, recent reports suggest that commercial biodiesel newlineproduction as a single product from microalgae is economically challenging. Therefore, newlineefforts have been made to cultivate large-scale production of microalgae biomass, which is newlineused as feedstock in hydrothermal liquefaction process to produce bio-oil crudes along newlinewith multiple products using a bio-refinery approach. newline