Enhancing Microalgal Production - constructing decision support tools using system dynamics modelling

This text, and the allied Decision Support Tool simulation models, were funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Interreg Atlantic Area programme, EnhanceMicroAlgae (EAPA_338/2016; “High added-value industrial opportunities for microalgae in the Atlantic Area”).

The project website is: https://www.enhancemicroalgae.eu/

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a text that explains how to optimise the commercial production of microalgal biomass.

The target audience for this work includes, in no particular order:

• Undergraduate and postgraduate students of biology, process biotechnology and chemical engineering
• Engineers engaging in the design and optimisation of microalgal bioreactors
• Aquaculturists wishing to develop integrated platforms for the growth of shell or fin fish
• Pharmacologists and nutritionists exploring the commercial potential of whole microalgal biomass or of specific biochemicals
• Those engaged in wastewater treatment, or CO₂ removal, wishing to consider deploying microalgal bioreactors
• Venture capitalists who wish to understand more of the basics of microalgal biotechnology

This work is associated with several free-to-end-user simulation models, accessed via url's given in the book.