Chlorella vulgaris, a microalgae important to be used in Biotechnology: a review

By Jesús Alberto Coronado-Reyes, J. A. Salazar-Torres, B. Juárez-Campos, J. González-Hernández. 2020

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The study of microalgae has become important in recent years because they are considered as raw materials for chemical compounds that have been affected by their primary and secondary metabolism, such as lipids, whose main application is for the generation of biodiesel. Among the advantages that the use of microalgae has at an industrial level, it can be identified that their cultivation is easy and fast, since they can complete their growth cycle in a few days and can develop both in salt water and freshwater in ponds., forests, and even once in fermentation tanks, have also been found to grow in wastewater (Lu et al., 2015). The C. vulgaris strains are species of microalgae that grow easily and quickly where, based on their metabolism, the culture medium can be autotrophic, heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photobioreactor, observing that the highest concentration of biomass is genres when working in a mixotrophic medium or photobioreactor level, so it is interesting to analyze the growth of C. vulgaris in a mixotrophic medium using a photobioreactor. Among the applications that can be given to the metabolites produced by C. vulgaris is the production from the lipids that it produces as well as the synthesis of proteins and some carbohydrates (Ardila-Álvarez et al., 2017).

Subfields: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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