**Meet the editors**

Prof. Eduardo Jacob-Lopes is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He is a technical and scientific consultant of several companies, agencies and scientific journals. He has 400 publications/communications, which include 5 books, 25

book chapters, and 80 original research papers, has 300 research communications in international and national conferences and has registered 15 patents. His research interest includes environmental biotechnology with emphasis on microalgal biotechnology.

Prof. Leila Queiroz Zepka is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Food Technology and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria. She is a technical and scientific consultant of several companies, agencies and scientific journals. She has 350 publications/communications, which include 5 books, 20 book chapters and 70 original research papers, has 280 re-

search communications in international and national conferences and has registered 10 patents. Her research interest includes microalgal biotechnology with emphasis on biomolecules and natural pigments.

Prof. Maria Isabel Queiroz is currently a Senior Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Food, Federal University of Rio Grande. She has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience. She is a technical and scientific consultant of several companies, agencies and scientific journals. She has more than 500 publications/communications, which include 10 books, 11 book

chapters and 100 original research papers and has 350 research communications in international and national conferences. Her research interest includes microalgal biotechnology with emphasis on bioprocesses.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Introduction 1**

and Eduardo Jacob-Lopes

**for Biofuel Potential 13**

Sivaprasad and Ajith Haridas

Julio Cesar Sacramento Rivero

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Microalgae Biotechnology. A Brief**

Chapter 2 **Checklist, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Marine**

Chapter 3 **Effect of Hydrodynamic Conditions of Photobioreactors on**

Chapter 4 **The Influence of Microalgae Addition as Co-Substrate in**

Sakthisaravanan and Radhakrishnan Kannan

Chapter 6 **Cyanobacteria and Microalgae in the Production of Valuable**

Elena Martínez-Francés and Carlos Escudero-Oñate

**Lipids Productivity in Microalgae 39**

**Anaerobic Digestion Processes 59**

Lama-Calvente and Rafael Borja

**Bioactive Compounds 105**

Chapter 5 **Algal Fuel Cell 91**

Stefania Fortes Siqueira, Maria Isabel Queiroz, Leila Queiroz Zepka

**Microalgae from Offshore Visakhapatnam, Bay of Bengal, India**

Palanisamy Selvakumar, Athia Shameem, Katru Umadevi, Boddu

Juan Carlos Robles Heredia, Asteria Narváez García, Alejandro Ruiz Marin, Yunuen Canedo Lopez, Jose del Carmen Zavala Loria and

Bárbara Rincón, María José Fernández-Rodríguez, David de la

Pandian Sivakumar, Karuppasamy Ilango, Nagarajan Praveena, Anirbid Sircar, Ragunathan Balasubramanian, Arumugamurthy
