Marine algae have gained substantial attention from various scientific and commercial fields. The reason behind its importance is due to the rich source of bioactive compounds like proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, other pigments. algae-derived carrageenans polysaccharides are used in food, medicine, cosmetic items, gelling, emulsifying, stabilizing agents. carrageenan has also photoprotective a...

The major responsibility of the marine industry includes global transportation goods, materials, and people. To cater longstanding challenges like degradation materials biofouling, it has embraced nanotechnology solutions. Nano-technology offered numerous products such as nano-ZnO, nano alumina, silica, etc. to deal with corrosion in a cost-effective manner. Similarly, address biofouling aquati...

Biodiesel produced from vegetable oils, animal fats and algae oil is a renewable, environmentally friendly and clean alternative fuel that reduces pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions in marine applications. This study investigates the influence of biodiesel blend on the characteristics of residual and distillate marine fuels. Adequate correlation equations are applied to calculate the fuel ...

Biodiversity in the seas is only partly explored, although marine organisms are excellent sources for many industrial products. Through close co-operation between industrial and academic partners, it is possible to successfully collect, isolate and classify marine organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, micro- and macroalgae, cyanobacteria, and marine invertebrates from the oceans and seas globally...

petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. to control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. it constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

This review highlights bioemulsifier-producing marine microorganisms, which are capable of producing unique metabolites having industrial applications. High molecular weight biosurfactants (bioemulsifiers) produce stable emulsions, which allow bacteria to adhere strongly to hydrophobic surfaces and then degrade large biological complexes. Bioemulsifiers are classified according to their hydroph...

Marine Biotechnology targets the development of novel products and processes from marine organisms, thereby seeking to contribute to human health, the food processing and animal feed industry and many other applications such as their use to generate biofuels. It also seeks better means for protecting marine habitats and restoring those that are damaged. In this sense, the First Marine Biotechno...

The marine environment is an untapped source of bioactive compounds. Specifically, marine macroalgae (seaweeds) are rich in polysaccharides that could potentially be exploited as prebiotic functional ingredients for both human and animal health applications. Prebiotics are non-digestible, selectively fermented compounds that stimulate the growth and/or activity of beneficial gut microbiota whic...