Sustainable Seaweed Technologies

Cultivation, Biorefinery, and Applications

Torres, Kraan, Dominguez
Elsevier S&T
750 pages
ISBN-13: 9780128179437
June 2020

Sustainable Seaweed Technologies: Cultivation, Biorefinery, and Applications collates key background information on efficient cultivation and biorefinery of seaweeds, combining underlying chemistry and methodology with industry experience. Beginning with a review of the opportunities for seaweed biorefinery and the varied components and properties of macroalgae, the book then reviews all the key steps needed for industrial applications, from its cultivation, collection and processing, to extraction techniques, concentration and purification.