Microalgae based wastewater treatment coupled to the production of high value agricultural products: Current needs and challenges

A Morillas-España, T Lafarga, A Sánchez-Zurano… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the main social and economic challenges of the 21st century will be to overcome the
worlds' water deficit expected by the end of this decade. Microalgae based wastewater …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates bioproduction from bench to industry: thirty years of development towards sustainability

PA Diankristanti, YC Lin, YC Yi, IS Ng - Bioresource technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The pursuit of carbon neutrality goals has sparked considerable interest in expanding
bioplastics production from microbial cell factories. One prominent class of bioplastics …

Chlorella vulgaris cultivation in pilot-scale to treat real swine wastewater and mitigate carbon dioxide for sustainable biodiesel production by direct enzymatic …

D Xie, X Ji, Y Zhou, J Dai, Y He, H Sun, Z Guo… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study firstly addressed real swine wastewater (RSW) treatment by an indigenous
Chlorella vulgaris MBFJNU-1 in 5-m 3 outdoor open raceway ponds and then direct …

[HTML][HTML] Microalgal cultivation on digestate: process efficiency and economics

S Rossi, M Mantovani, F Marazzi, M Bellucci… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims at evaluating the process efficiency of an outdoor pilot-scale microalgae-
based wastewater treatment system. Experimental results from two monitoring campaigns …

Piggery wastewater treatment with algae-bacteria consortia: pilot-scale validation and techno-economic evaluation at farm level

S Rossi, A Pizzera, M Bellucci, F Marazzi… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficiency of an outdoor pilot-scale raceway pond treating the wastewaters generated by
a large-scale piggery farm in Northern Italy was evaluated. The biomass productivity over …

A zero-waste approach for the production and use of Arthrospira platensis as a protein source in foods and as a plant biostimulant in agriculture

S Villaró, G Acién, J Alarcón, Á Ruiz… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Springer
Food production will have to increase significantly to meet the nutritional needs of the global
population. There is also an urgent need to increase the sustainability of food production …

Towards large scale biocrust restoration: Producing an efficient and low-cost inoculum of N-fixing cyanobacteria

B Roncero-Ramos, JR Román, G Acién… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dryland soil degradation is increasing due to global change and traditional restoration
methods are not successful due to water scarcity. Thus, an alternative technology based on …

Production of microalgae using pilot-scale thin-layer cascade photobioreactors: Effect of water type on biomass composition

S Villaró, A Sánchez-Zurano, M Ciardi, FJ Alarcón… - Biomass and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The microalga Tetradesmus almeriensis was produced in a 63 m 2 thin-layer cascade
photobioreactor using either freshwater supplemented with fertilisers, primary urban …

[HTML][HTML] Pilot-scale outdoor trial of a cyanobacterial consortium at pH 11 in a photobioreactor at high latitude

M Haines, A Vadlamani, WDL Richardson… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The biomass of microalgae and cyanobacteria yields a variety of products. Outdoor pilot
plant trials typically grow a single species at circumneutral pH and provide CO 2 by gas …

Real-time response counterattack strategy of tolerant microalgae Chlorella vulgaris MBFJNU-1 in original swine wastewater and free ammonia

J Dai, M Zheng, Y He, Y Zhou, M Wang, B Chen - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
This work was the first time to systematically clarify the potential tolerance mechanism of an
indigenous Chlorella vulgaris MBFJNU-1 towards the free ammonia (FA) during the original …