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Hydrothermal Processes for Extraction of Macroalgae High Value-Added Compounds

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Hydrothermal Processing in Biorefineries

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Macroalgae are a complex biomass conformed of unique compounds with high value-added potential for applications in diverse areas such as pharmaceutical, medical, food, material, and biofuel. The pretreatment conditions for macroalgae fractionation into target molecules are essential to remain relevant biological and chemical properties including antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antiangiogenic, antiproliferative, antitumoral, anticoagulant, antioxidant, and gelation activities. Therefore, green technologies such as hydrothermal processes using different heating sources as microwaves, conduction-convection under high-pressure systems, and steam explosion have been recently studied to evaluate the efficiency of this process taking into account the effect over the environment and the economic viability. The present overview describes and discusses the most recent and relevant studies based on hydrothermal processes over the extraction of high value-added and bioactive compounds from macroalgae sources.

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The authors gratefully acknowledged the financial support from the Secretary of Public Education of México PROMEP project/DSA/103.5/14/10442—UACOAH—PTC-312 and the Cluster of Bioalcohols (Ref. 249564) from the Energy Sustainability Fund 2014-05 (CONACYT-SENER) of the Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bioenergy (Cemie-Bio). We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT, Mexico) for the infrastructure project—INFR201601 (Ref. 269461) and CB-2015-01 (Ref. 254808). The authors D. E. Cervantes-Cisneros, D. Arguello-Esparza, and A. Cabello-Galindo thank the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT-Mexico) for the Master fellowship grant.

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  1. Biorefinery Group, Food Research Department, School of Chemistry, Autonomous University of Coahuila, 25280, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

    Daniela E. Cervantes-Cisneros, Dulce Arguello-Esparza, Alejandra Cabello-Galindo, Brian Picazo, Cristóbal N. Aguilar, Héctor A. Ruiz & Rosa M. Rodríguez-Jasso

  2. Cluster of Bioalcohols, Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bioenergy (CEMIE-BIO), Mexico City, Mexico

    Héctor A. Ruiz & Rosa M. Rodríguez-Jasso

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Cervantes-Cisneros, D.E. et al. (2017). Hydrothermal Processes for Extraction of Macroalgae High Value-Added Compounds. In: Ruiz, H., Hedegaard Thomsen, M., Trajano, H. (eds) Hydrothermal Processing in Biorefineries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56457-9_20

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