Production and harvesting of microalgae for wastewater treatment, biofuels, and bioproducts.

By L. Christenson, R. Sims. Biotechnology Advances, 2011

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Microalgae Cultivation Using Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae (OMEGA) (2013, neutral): “It is well established that microalgae in ponds and other PBR designs can effectively remove nutrients from wastewater [50-53].”
Role of Rhizobium, a plant growth promoting bacterium, in enhancing algal biomass through mutualistic interaction (2014, background): “Currently, microalgae are exploited commercially for their diverse metabolites and widely studied in the context of biofuels, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, aquaculture and bioremediation [4,5].”
Biodiesel from microalgae: A critical evaluation from laboratory to large scale production (2013, background): “This increases energy consumption and thus cost [97].”
Microalgae biorefinery: High value products perspectives. (2017, neutral): “Microalgae biorefineries have developed the progress of transformation of biomass into fuels, cosmetics, chemicals, food, feed and value-added compounds (Christenson & Sims, 2011; Wang et al., 2015a) (Table 1).”
Applications and perspectives of phototrophic microorganisms for electricity generation from organic compounds in microbial fuel cells (2014, background): “Algal treatment of wastewater has a long history [14], especially in removing nutrients and heavy metals.”
Potential of the micro and macro algae for biofuel production: a brief review. (2013, background): “…systems has been done in Israel (Shelef et al. 1980), India (Venkataraman et al. 1980), Thailand (Tanticharoen et al. 1990), the United States (Christenson and Sims 2012; Ellis et al. 2012; Rahman et al. 2012; Christenson and Sims 2011; Lincoln and Hill 1980), and some other countries.”
Harvesting microalgae by CTAB-aided foam flotation increases lipid recovery and improves fatty acid methyl ester characteristics (2014, background): “This is an ope affordably produce high biomass yields at scale; and, 2) the harvesting, dewatering, and extraction of biochemicals from large quantities of feedstock [2,5].”