Heavy metals‐containing drinking water and wastewater are posing a severe threat to the
environment, and living beings on land, air and water. Different conventional, advanced …

Biotechnology of microalgae has gained popularity due to the growing need for novel
environmental technologies and the development of innovative mass-production …

Microalgae biomass is among one of the most promising sustainable raw materials for many
industrial sectors especially biodiesel production. Although a great diversity of microalgae …

Metal contamination of a few aquatic, atmospheric, and soil ecosystems has increased ever
since the industrial revolution, owing to discharge of such elements via the effluents of some …

The objective of this paper is to develop efficient technologies for harvesting of algal
biomass using membrane filtration. Foulants were characterized using scanning electron …

Coelastrella sp. grows well in swine wastewater, and could remove nutrients from swine
wastewater. Some typical pollutants such as Zn (II) in swine wastewater might affect the …

The potential use of the immobilized fresh water algae (in Ca-alginate) of Scenedesmus
quadricauda to remove Cu (II), Zn (II) and Ni (II) ions from aqueous solutions was evaluated …

Despite the social and economic importance of swine farming, this activity has great
polluting potential due to the large wastewater generation composed of high micropollutant …

Algae have been proven efficient biological vectors for heavy metal uptake. In order to
further study their biosorption potential, two strains Spirogyra sp. and Spirulina sp. have …

Phycoremediation is being considered as an eco-friendly and safe technology for toxics
eradication from contaminated aquatic systems. The zinc biosorption capacity of Dunaliella …