Harnessing solar energy using phototrophic microorganisms: A sustainable pathway to bioenergy, biomaterials, and environmental solutions

RU Tanvir, J Zhang, T Canter, D Chen, J Lu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Phototrophic microorganisms (microbial phototrophs) use light as an energy source to carry
out various metabolic processes producing biomaterials and bioenergy and supporting their …

Cyanobacteria and algal-based biological life support system (BLSS) and planetary surface atmospheric revitalizing bioreactor brief concept review

R Keller, K Goli, W Porter, A Alrabaa, JA Jones - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Exploring austere environments required a reimagining of resource acquisition and
utilization. Cyanobacterial in situ resources utilization (ISRU) and biological life support …

Free ammonia inhibition in microalgae and cyanobacteria grown in wastewaters: Photo-respirometric evaluation and modelling

S Rossi, R Díez-Montero, E Rueda, FC Cascino… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
The inhibitory effects of free ammonia (FA) on microalgae/cyanobacteria in wastewater-
treating photobioreactors (PBR) can strongly reduce their treatment efficiency, increasing the …

Roles of SRT and HRT of an algal membrane bioreactor system with a tanks-in-series configuration for secondary wastewater effluent polishing

M Xu, P Li, T Tang, Z Hu - Ecological Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
This study systematically determined the effect of uncoupling between solids retention time
(SRT) and hydraulic retention time (HRT) and the SRT/HRT ratio on algal growth and …

Influence of hydraulic retention time on indigenous microalgae and activated sludge process

A Anbalagan, S Schwede, CF Lindberg, E Nehrenheim - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Integration of the microalgae and activated sludge (MAAS) process in municipal wastewater
treatment and biogas production from recovered MAAS was investigated by studying the …

Selection of photosynthesis and respiration models to assess the effect of environmental conditions on mixed microalgae consortia grown on wastewater

S Rossi, F Casagli, M Mantovani, V Mezzanotte… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aimed at evaluating the effects of different environmental conditions (irradiance,
temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen) on a microalgae-bacteria consortium cultivated in a …

Modeling of photosynthesis and respiration rate for microalgae–bacteria consortia

A Sanchez Zurano, C Gomez Serrano… - Biotechnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the influence of culture conditions (irradiance, temperature, pH, and dissolved
oxygen) on the photosynthesis and the respiration rates of microalgae–bacteria consortia in …

Kinetic characterization of microalgal-bacterial systems: Contributions of microalgae and heterotrophic bacteria to the oxygen balance in wastewater treatment

G Flores-Salgado, F Thalasso, G Buitrón… - Biochemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metabolic activities of microalgae and heterotrophic bacteria were characterized in terms of
dissolved O 2 uptake and production rates under dark and light conditions, assessing the …

Photo-respirometry to shed light on microalgae-bacteria consortia—a review

S Rossi, E Sforza, M Pastore, M Bellucci… - … Science and Bio …, 2020 - Springer
The use of phototrophic organisms in wastewater treatment is gaining increasing interest,
due to the possibility of exploiting photosynthetic oxygenation, thus lowering treatment costs …

A novel photo-respirometry method to characterize consortia in microalgae-related wastewater treatment processes

A Sanchez-Zurano, C Gomez-Serrano… - Algal research, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new photo-respirometry method for determining the rates of the main
metabolic processes of microalgae-bacteria consortia in microalgae-based wastewater …