Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed Biorefinery
Macroalgae have been commercially exploited as food and for the production of phycocolloids, but they also contain compounds with potential in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, chemical and energetic applications. The biorefinery concept applied to seaweed facilitates the extraction of differ...
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| author | Milena Álvarez-Viñas Noelia Flórez-Fernández M. Dolores Torres Herminia Domínguez |
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| description | Macroalgae have been commercially exploited as food and for the production of phycocolloids, but they also contain compounds with potential in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, chemical and energetic applications. The biorefinery concept applied to seaweed facilitates the extraction of different constituents ensuring full utilization of resources and generating few residues through a succession of steps. Seaweed biorefineries are less advanced than those based on terrestrial biomass and the design of efficient processes requires further study. This review presents practical successful examples to obtain two or more commercially valuable components from red seaweeds. The selected processes consist on cascading stages of both conventional and alternative techniques to illustrate different possible valorization strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5c82eaad58ae43fb82b9adc9fb09c0602022-12-22T03:10:19ZengMDPI AGMarine Drugs1660-33972019-10-01171162010.3390/md17110620md17110620Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed BiorefineryMilena Álvarez-Viñas0Noelia Flórez-Fernández1M. Dolores Torres2Herminia Domínguez3Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences. University of Vigo, Campus Ourense, As Lagoas, 32004 Ourense, SpainDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences. University of Vigo, Campus Ourense, As Lagoas, 32004 Ourense, SpainDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences. University of Vigo, Campus Ourense, As Lagoas, 32004 Ourense, SpainDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences. University of Vigo, Campus Ourense, As Lagoas, 32004 Ourense, SpainMacroalgae have been commercially exploited as food and for the production of phycocolloids, but they also contain compounds with potential in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, chemical and energetic applications. The biorefinery concept applied to seaweed facilitates the extraction of different constituents ensuring full utilization of resources and generating few residues through a succession of steps. Seaweed biorefineries are less advanced than those based on terrestrial biomass and the design of efficient processes requires further study. This review presents practical successful examples to obtain two or more commercially valuable components from red seaweeds. The selected processes consist on cascading stages of both conventional and alternative techniques to illustrate different possible valorization strategies.https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/17/11/620red seaweedcascade processingbiorefineryphycocolloidsbioactivesenergy |
| spellingShingle | Milena Álvarez-Viñas Noelia Flórez-Fernández M. Dolores Torres Herminia Domínguez Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed Biorefinery Marine Drugs red seaweed cascade processing biorefinery phycocolloids bioactives energy |
| title | Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed Biorefinery |
| title_full | Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed Biorefinery |
| title_fullStr | Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed Biorefinery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed Biorefinery |
| title_short | Successful Approaches for a Red Seaweed Biorefinery |
| title_sort | successful approaches for a red seaweed biorefinery |
| topic | red seaweed cascade processing biorefinery phycocolloids bioactives energy |
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