Water reuse for sustainable microalgae cultivation: current knowledge and future directions

Z Lu, S Loftus, J Sha, W Wang, MS Park… - Resources …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microalgae hold great promise as environmentally sustainable sources of food, animal feed,
and fuel. However, large amounts of water are used during microalgae cultivation and this …

Plant-based biopolymers: emerging bio-flocculants for microalgal biomass recovery

H Jethani, UH Hebbar - Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio …, 2021 - Springer
The production of microalgal biomass and its derived products on a large-scale requires the
development of sustainable and cost-effective harvesting technologies. Biomass recovery is …

Aminomethylation of spruce tannins and their application as coagulants for water clarification

A Bello, V Virtanen, JP Salminen, T Leiviskä - Separation and Purification …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study explored the potential for using tannin extract from spruce bark (Picea abies) as a
coagulant. Spruce tannins were extracted with hot water and pulverized through spray …

Innovative microalgae biomass harvesting methods: Technical feasibility and life cycle analysis

J Ferreira, LR de Assis, AP de Sousa Oliveira… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to ease one of the main challenges of biomass production in wastewater, the
harvest stage, this study proposes as main innovations: the comparison of technical and …

Reused cultivation water accumulates dissolved organic carbon and uniquely influences different marine microalgae

SE Loftus, ZI Johnson - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Reusing growth medium (water supplemented with nutrients) for microalgae cultivation is
required for economical and environmentally sustainable production of algae bioproducts …

Effective Chlorella vulgaris Biomass Harvesting through Sulfate and Chloride Flocculants

W Ma, C Feng, F Guan, D Ma, J Cai - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Efficient microalgae harvesting is a great challenge hindering diverse industrial applications
of microalgae. Flocculation is regarded as an effective and promising technology for …

Up-scaling of tannin-based coagulants for wastewater treatment: performance in a water treatment plant

K Grenda, J Arnold, JAF Gamelas… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Tannin extracts from the bark of Acacia mearnsii and wood of Schinopsis balansae,
commonly known as Quebracho, were employed. These were modified at laboratory sale …

Experimental study on functional graphene oxide containing many primary amino groups fast-adsorbing heavy metal ions and adsorption mechanism

CZ Zhang, Y Yuan, Z Guo - Separation Science and Technology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Highly oxygenated graphene oxide was synthesized. Ethylenediamino graphene oxide
(EDAGO) with many amino and hydroxyl groups was prepared for adsorbing heavy metal …

The transition away from chemical flocculants: Commercially viable harvesting of Phaeodactylum tricornutum

TO Butler, K Acurio, J Mukherjee, MM Dangasuk… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Harvesting can contribute up to 15% of the total production cost for microalgal
biomanufacturing. Using flocculants is potentially a cost-effective approach but there has …

The culture technology for freshwater and marine microalgae

A Shahid, S Malik, MA Alam, N Nahid… - … for Development of …, 2019 - Springer
Microalgae are promising eco-friendly source of food, feed, biofuels, and chemicals. There
has been substantial progress at the lab and industrial scales to develop efficient and …