ABSTRACT
Biofuel and bioproduct production from microalgae have several advantages when compared to the 1st and 2nd biofuel generation having: high areal productivity, minimal competition with conventional agriculture, environmental benefits by recycling nutrients (N and P) from waste waters and mitigating carbon dioxide from air emissions. In addition, all components of microalgae can be separated and transformed into different valuable products. The high metabolic versatility of microalgae and cyanobacteria metabolisms, offer interesting applications in several fields such as nutrition (human and animal), nutraceuticals, therapeutic products, fertilizers, plastics, isoprene, biofuels and environment (such as water stream bioremediation and carbon dioxide mitigation).
