Sustainable Seaweed Technologies

Dr Torres was awarded her PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Currently, she has a research position at the University of Vigo (Spain), where is working on the integral valorisation of brown and red algae using environmental friendly technologies to obtain hydrogels and other components of industrial value. Dr Kraan is co-founder and Director of R&D at Oceana Organic Products Ltd and Aquaceuticals Ltd, Ireland - two companies that focus on human food, food applications and ingredients using (edible) seaweeds. He moved to Ireland to pursue a PhD on phylogenetics and aquaculture of edible seaweeds at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1998. He became manager of the Irish Seaweed Industry Organisation (1998), established the Irish Seaweed Centre (2001), and Ocean Harvest Technology (2009), a company dedicated in using seaweeds for animal health and production. After 8 years he resigned to pursue and develop some commercial ideas using seaweeds for a variety of purposes amongst them functional food ingredients for human food and novel algae cultivation systems for biomass production. Dr. Herminia Domínguez received her PhD Degree in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Vigo (Spain), where she has been working on the extraction of bioactive compounds from underutilized and residual sources using green technologies, particularly pressurized solvents and membrane technology.

• Part 1: Introduction to Seaweed and Seaweed Biorefinery1. Opportunities for seaweed biorefinery2. Seaweed components, properties, and applications3. Seaweed resources, collection, and cultivation with respect to sustainability 4. Time for applications of biostimulants in phyconomy: Seaweed Extracts for Enhanced Cultivation of Seaweeds (SEECS)Part 2: Conditioning and Modification of Seaweed for Biorefinery5. Drying of seaweeds6. Storage of Seaweed for Biofuel Production: EnsilagePart 3: Extraction for Seaweed Biorefinery7. Conventional Extraction Techniques: Solvent extraction8. Emerging Extraction Techniques: Hydrothermal processin9. Emerging Extraction Techniques: MW assisted extraction10. Emerging Extraction Techniques: Enzyme assisted extraction11. Emerging Extraction Techniques: Supercritical fluid extraction12. Emerging Extraction Techniques: Ionic liquidsPart 4: Concentration and Purification of Seaweed Extracts for Biorefinery13. Concentration and Purification of Seaweed Extracts Through Chromatography14. Concentration and Purification of Seaweed Extracts Through MembranesPart 5: Seaweed-based Energy Production15. Biofuels production of third generation biorafinery from macroalgal biokmass in the Mexican context16. Biocatalytic refining of polysaccharides from brown seaweedsPart 6: Preparation of Novel Materials From Seaweed17. Nanoparticles18. Seaweed polysaccharides as sustainable building blocks for biomaterials in tissue engineeringPart 7: Operations for utilization of seaweeds and/or waste solids19. Utilization of seaweed waste20. Utilization of seaweed waste: Adsorption of toxic compounds onto invasive seaweed and seaweed wastesPart 8: Case Studies in Seaweed Biorefinery21. Biorefinery to produce animal feed, chemicals and biofuels22. Life cycle assessment of macroalgal biorefinery