Review of microalgae harvesting via co-Pelletization with filamentous fungus.
By Sarman Oktovianus Gultom, Bo Hu. 2013
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Cultivation of microalgae to utilize CO 2 and nutrients in the wastewater to generate biofuel products is a promising research objective. However, the process faces tremendous technical difficulties, especially the harvest of microalgae cells, an economically challenging step. Several researchers recently reported co-culturing of filamentous fungi with microalgae so that microalgae cells can be co-pelletized in order to facilitate the cell harvest. This algae pelletization via the filamentous fungi represents an innovative approach to address both the cost and sustainability issues in algae biofuel production and also has potential with direct commercial applications. This paper reviews the current research status in this area and some possible drawbacks of this method in order to provide some possible directions for the future research.
Subfields: Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- A Review on the Use of Microalgae for Sustainable Aquaculture (2019, methodology): “To use microalgae biomass in various industries, previous studies have developed many harvesting technologies, such as centrifugation, filtration, gravity-driven sedimentation, flocculation by positively charged ions, harvesting by edible fungi, and flotation [65,66].”
- Flocculation Harvesting Techniques for Microalgae: A Review (2019, background): “Spontaneous aggregation of algal cells under specific conditions and the use of a self-flocculating microorganism can be considered as sustainable and environment-friendly [22,26].”
- A review on co-cultivation of microalgae with filamentous fungi: Efficient harvesting, wastewater treatment and biofuel production (2021, unknown): “And Mucor sp [14,31].”