Immobilized microalgae for removing pollutants: review of practical aspects.

By L. de-Bashan, Y. Bashan. Bioresource Technology, 2010

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

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Cultivation of algae consortium in a dairy farm wastewater for biodiesel production (2015, background): “The ability of microalgae to effectively grow in nutrient-rich environments and to efficiently consume nutrients and accumulate metals from the wastewater, make them an extremely attractive means for sustainable and low cost wastewater treatment [5,26,22].”
The potential contribution of plant growth-promoting bacteria to reduce environmental degradation – A comprehensive evaluation (2012, background): “…C. vulgaris and Chlorella sorokiniana immobilized with the well-known PGPB A. brasilense in alginate beads under diverse environmental conditions was intensively studied in recent years (de-Bashan et al., 2002a,b, 2004, 2005, 2008a, 2011; Gonzalez and Bashan, 2000; Lebsky et al., 2001) (Fig.”
Microalgae - A promising tool for heavy metal remediation. (2015, background): “Selected strains of microalgae, purposefully cultivated and processed for specific bioremoval applications could have metalremoval potential suitable in several environmental applications (de-Bashan and Bashan, 2010).”
EFFICIENCY OF GROWTH AND NUTRIENT UPTAKE FROM WASTEWATER BY HETEROTROPHIC, AUTOTROPHIC, AND MIXOTROPHIC CULTIVATION OF CHLORELLA VULGARIS IMMOBILIZED WITH AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE 1 (2010, methodology): “Beads (2–3 mm in dia.) were automatically produced in a 2% CaCl2 solidification solution (de-Bashan and Bashan 2010).”
Heterotrophic cultures of microalgae: metabolism and potential products. (2011, background): “To date, this has hardly been tested under heterotrophic conditions (de-Bashan and Bashan, 2010).”
Growing microalgae as aquaculture feeds on twin-layers: a novel solid-state photobioreactor (2013, background): “Applications of immobilized microalgae were recently reviewed, with a focus on wastewater treatment and degradation of various toxic compounds (Moreno-Garrido 2008; de-Bashan and Bashan 2010; Léonard et al. 2011).”
Immobilization of microbial cells: A promising tool for treatment of toxic pollutants in industrial wastewater (2013, background): “cells do not suffer extreme changes in physicochemical condition during the procedure of immobilization and the gel is transparent and permeable (Bashan and Bashan, 2010).”
Advances in plant growth-promoting bacterial inoculant technology: formulations and practical perspectives (1998–2013) (2014, background): “Another application of alginate inoculants is in tertiary wastewater treatment by microalgae (de-Bashan and Bashan 2010).”
The potential of sustainable algal biofuel production using wastewater resources. (2011, methodology): “The ability of microalgae to effectively grow in nutrient-rich environments and to efficiently accumulate nutrients and metals from the wastewater, make them an extremely attractive means for sustainable and low cost wastewater treatment (de-Bashan and Bashan, 2010; Hoffmann, 1998; Mallick, 2002).”