Flocculation of algae using chitosan

By Ravi Divakaran, V. N. Sivasankara Pillai. Journal of Applied Phycology, 2002

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• Inducing autoflocculation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum through CO2 regulation (2011, background): “For most algal species, growth slows down significantly at pH>9.0, but there are examples of species that can drive the pH up well above 10 (Goldman et al. 1982; Mogelhoy et al. 2006), which potentially could be high enough for inducing flocculation ( Blanchemain and Grizeau 1999 ).”
• Cultivation, photobioreactor design and harvesting of microalgae for biodiesel production: a critical review. (2011, background): “Biodegradable organic flocculants, such as chitosan, are produced from natural sources that do not contaminate the microalgal biomass (Divakaran and Pillai, 2002).”
• Morphology, composition, production, processing and applications of Chlorella vulgaris: A review (2014, background): “Chitosan is also an interesting flocculating agent [73], which showed maximum efficiency at pH 7 with 90% microalgal recovery.”
• Flocculation of microalgae using cationic starch (2009, background): “This is in contrast to flocculation of microalgae using chitosan, which is only efficient at a pH below 8 ( Divakaran and Pillai 2002; Liu et al. 2009).”