Improving the ecological status of water sources is a growing focus for many developed and
developing nations, in particular with reducing nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater …

The water resource crisis and concerns with environmental pollution are pushing for
upgrading of conventional wastewater treatment process. Microalgae-based wastewater …

Microalgae have been promoted as important feedstocks for producing biofuels and
bioproducts. However, their production on a large scale would require a large amount of …

Microalgae have been proposed as an option for wastewater treatment since the 1960s, but
still, this technology has not been expanded to an industrial scale. In this paper, the major …

Algae is recognized as a potentially valuable source of biofuels and biochemicals; however,
a major limitation to commercialization is in the high cost of harvesting, de-watering, and …

The suspended microalgal cultivation systems targeting the production of lipid for biodiesel
is still unable to meet the commercial and economic feasibility due to high energy and cost …

Attached microalgae cultivation could simplify the microalgae harvest process and reduce its
associated cost, which has attracted much attention recently. In this paper, the reactor …

This review focuses on the potential advantages and challenges of submerged membrane
photobioreactors (MPBRs) for microalgae cultivation and wastewater treatment. MPBR …

Several key challenges are hindering large-scale cultivation of microalgae for industrial
purposes, including wastewater treatment, carbon capture, biomass production, and …

Biofilm-based algal cultivation has many advantages over the conventional suspended
growth methods and has received increased attention as a potential platform for algal …