A review on algae biosorption for the removal of hazardous pollutants from wastewater: Limiting factors, prospects and recommendations

B Ramesh, A Saravanan, PS Kumar… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metals, dyes and pharmaceutical pollutants in water environment are considered as
serious threat to the human and animal health globally. Rapid development of …

Algae in wastewater treatment, mechanism, and application of biomass for production of value-added product

P Bhatt, G Bhandari, RF Turco, Z Aminikhoei… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The pollutants can enter water bodies at various point and non-point sources, and
wastewater discharge remains a major pathway. Wastewater treatment effectively reduces …

Insight into adsorption mechanism, modeling, and desirability function of crystal violet and methylene blue dyes by microalgae: Box-Behnken design application

AS Abdulhameed, AH Jawad, E Kashi, KA Radzun… - Algal Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, an environmentally friendly and efficient adsorbent of microalgae (MAG) was
applied for the removal of crystal violet (CV) and methylene blue (MB) dyes from aqueous …

A pH-sensitive surface of chitosan/sepiolite clay/algae biocomposite for the removal of malachite green and remazol brilliant blue R dyes: optimization and adsorption …

ZM Zain, AS Abdulhameed, AH Jawad… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2023 - Springer
A pH-sensitive chitosan/sepiolite clay/algae biocomposite (Chi/Sep/Alg) was fabricated to
remove cationic (malachite green, MG) and anionic (remazol brilliant blue R, RBBR) dyes …

Utilization of the microalga Chlorella vulgaris for mercury bioremediation from wastewater and biomass production

HS Kusuma, N Illiyanasafa, DEC Jaya… - Sustainable Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increased industrialization led to a large amount of wastewater being generated. Heavy
metals (HMs), especially mercury, are one of the toxic and harmful contaminants in …

[HTML][HTML] Algae, biochar and bacteria for acid mine drainage (AMD) remediation: A review

T Du, A Bogush, O Mašek, S Purton, LC Campos - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a global issue and causes harmful environmental impacts.
AMD has high acidity and contains a high concentration of heavy metals and metalloids …

Sustainability analysis of spirulina biodiesel and their blends on a diesel engine with energy, exergy and emission (3E's) parameters

AS Rajpoot, T Choudhary, H Chelladurai, TN Verma… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study comprises a sustainability analysis of spirulina microalgae biodiesel
along with comparative energy-exergy-emission (3E) evaluations of a direct injection, one …

Economic considerations on nutrient utilization in wastewater management

J Maroušek, A Maroušková - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is wide consensus that Spirulina can serve as a tool for wastewater management and
simultaneously provide feedstock for biorefining. However, the economic aspects associated …

Heavy metals removal by algae and usage of activated metal-enriched biomass as cathode catalyst for improving performance of photosynthetic microbial fuel cell

S Das, S Kumar, AK Mehta, MM Ghangrekar - Bioresource Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Cytotoxic, malignant, and mutagenic pollutants like heavy metals have emerged as a
serious global threat to the ecosystem. Additionally, the quantity of noxious metals in water …

An eco-friendly adsorbent of chitosan/montmorillonite/algae for removal of basic green 1 and reactive blue 19 dyes: Box-Behnken design optimization mechanistic …

K Rosli, AS Abdulhameed, SN Surip… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2023 - Springer
In this study, a green and effective adsorbent of chitosan/montmorillonite/algae
(CHI/MMT/ALG) composite was developed to be an alternative adsorbent to remove …