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Contents vii

6. A Biorefinery approach towards development of renewable
platform chemicals from sustainable biomass 135
Gurunathan Baskar, R. Aiswarya, G. Kalavathy, Ashok Pandey,
Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman and
R. Praveen Kumar
6.1 Introduction 135
6.2 Renewable chemical industry and its growth 136
6.3 Contemporary approach toward biorefinery and its processing
strategies 137
6.4 Production of platform chemicals—an outlook 140
6.5 Regulations and sustainability of bulk chemicals 141
6.6 Conclusions 142
References 143
Further reading 147

7. Biorefinery of microalgae biomass cultivated in wastewaters 149
Lizzette Moreno Garcı ´ a, Yvan Garie ´py, Simon Barnabe ´ and
Vijaya Raghavan
7.1 Introduction 149
7.2 Factors affecting algae growth when using wastewaters 150
7.3 Types of wastewaters and the adequacy of their use
to grow algae 156
7.4 Achieving a cost-effective microalgae biomass-based
biorefinery system 168
7.5 Conclusions 171
References 174

Part III Industrial waste biorefineries 181

8. Generation of bioenergy from industrial waste using microbial
fuel cell technology for the sustainable future 183
K. Senthilkumar and M. Naveen Kumar
8.1 Introduction 183
8.2 Probable bioenergy from industrial effluents 184
8.3 Environmental effects due to industrial waste 184
8.4 Traditional treatments methods on industrial waste 185
8.5 Microbial fuel cell technology 186
8.6 Research prospects in microbial fuel cell technology 188
8.7 Confront/dispute in microbial fuel cell 190
8.8 Utilization of microbial fuel cell 190
8.9 Conclusion and future prospects of microbial fuel cell 192
References 192
Further reading 193