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Wang Q, Higgins B, Fallahi A, Wilson AE. Engineered algal systems for the treatment of anaerobic digestate: A meta-analysis. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 356:120669. [PMID: 38520852 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024]
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The objective of this review was to provide quantitative insights into algal growth and nutrient removal in anaerobic digestate. To synthesize the relevant literature, a meta-analysis was conducted using data from 58 articles to elucidate key factors that impact algal biomass productivity and nutrient removal from anaerobic digestate. On average, algal biomass productivity in anaerobic digestate was significantly lower than that in synthetic control media (p < 0.05) but large variation in productivity was observed. A mixed-effects multiple regression model across study revealed that biological or chemical pretreatment of digestate significantly increase productivity (p < 0.001). In contrast, the commonly used practice of digestate dilution was not a significant factor in the model. High initial total ammonia nitrogen suppressed algal growth (p = 0.036) whereas initial total phosphorus concentration, digestate sterilization, CO2 supplementation, and temperature were not statistically significant factors. Higher growth corresponded with significantly higher NH4-N and phosphorus removal with a linear relationship of 6.4 mg NH4-N and 0.73 mg P removed per 100 mg of algal biomass growth (p < 0.001). The literature suggests that suboptimal algal growth in anaerobic digestate could be due to factors such as turbidity, high free ammonia, and residual organic compounds. This analysis shows that non-dilution approaches, such as biological or chemical pretreatment, for alleviating algal inhibition are recommended for algal digestate treatment systems.
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- Qichen Wang
- Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
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- Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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- Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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- School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA
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Alkhanjaf AAM, Sharma S, Sharma M, Kumar R, Arora NK, Kumar B, Umar A, Baskoutas S, Mukherjee TK. Microbial strategies for copper pollution remediation: Mechanistic insights and recent advances. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 346:123588. [PMID: 38401635 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/26/2024]
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Environmental contamination is aninsistent concern affecting human health and the ecosystem. Wastewater, containing heavy metals from industrial activities, significantly contributes to escalating water pollution. These metals can bioaccumulate in food chains, posing health risks even at low concentrations. Copper (Cu), an essential micronutrient, becomes toxic at high levels. Activities like mining and fungicide use have led to Copper contamination in soil, water, and sediment beyond safe levels. Copper widely used in industries, demands restraint of heavy metal ion release into wastewater for ecosystem ultrafiltration, membrane filtration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis, combat heavy metal pollution, with emphasis on copper.Physical and chemical approaches are efficient, large-scale feasibility may have drawbackssuch as they are costly, result in the production of sludge. In contrast, bioremediation, microbial intervention offers eco-friendly solutions for copper-contaminated soil. Bacteria and fungi facilitate these bioremediation avenues as cost-effective alternatives. This review article emphasizes on physical, chemical, and biological methods for removal of copper from the wastewater as well asdetailing microorganism's mechanisms to mobilize or immobilize copper in wastewater and soil.
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- Abdulrab Ahmed M Alkhanjaf
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Najran University, Najran, 11001, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Bio-sciences and Technology, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to Be University), Mullana, Ambala, 133207, Haryana, India
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- Department of Bio-sciences and Technology, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to Be University), Mullana, Ambala, 133207, Haryana, India
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- Department of Bio-sciences and Technology, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to Be University), Mullana, Ambala, 133207, Haryana, India.
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- Division of Soil and Crop Management, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, 133001, Haryana, India
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- Division of Soil and Crop Management, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, 133001, Haryana, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Arts, Najran University, Najran, 11001, Saudi Arabia; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, OH, USA
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, 26500, Patras, Greece
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Bi R, Yang J, Huang C, Zhang X, Liao R, Ma H. Pulse Feature-Enhanced Classification of Microalgae and Cyanobacteria Using Polarized Light Scattering and Fluorescence Signals. BIOSENSORS 2024; 14:160. [PMID: 38667153 PMCID: PMC11048193 DOI: 10.3390/bios14040160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Revised: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose a global threat to the biodiversity and stability of local aquatic ecosystems. Rapid and accurate classification of microalgae and cyanobacteria in water is increasingly desired for monitoring complex water environments. In this paper, we propose a pulse feature-enhanced classification (PFEC) method as a potential solution. Equipped with a rapid measurement prototype that simultaneously detects polarized light scattering and fluorescence signals of individual particles, PFEC allows for the extraction of 38 pulse features to improve the classification accuracy of microalgae, cyanobacteria, and other suspended particulate matter (SPM) to 89.03%. Compared with microscopic observation, PFEC reveals three phyla proportions in aquaculture samples with an average error of less than 14%. In this paper, PFEC is found to be more accurate than the pulse-average classification method, which is interpreted as pulse features carrying more detailed information about particles. The high consistency of the dominant and common species between PFEC and microscopy in all field samples also demonstrates the flexibility and robustness of the former. Moreover, the high Pearson correlation coefficient accounting for 0.958 between the cyanobacterial proportion obtained by PFEC and the cyanobacterial density given by microscopy implies that PFEC serves as a promising early warning tool for cyanobacterial blooms. The results of this work suggest that PFEC holds great potential for the rapid and accurate classification of microalgae and cyanobacteria in aquatic environment monitoring.
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- Ran Bi
- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, China;
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine IntelliSense and Computation, Institute for Ocean Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China; (J.Y.); (C.H.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine IntelliSense and Computation, Institute for Ocean Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China; (J.Y.); (C.H.)
- Division of Advanced Manufacturing, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine IntelliSense and Computation, Institute for Ocean Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China; (J.Y.); (C.H.)
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- Hainan Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine IntelliSense and Computation, Institute for Ocean Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China; (J.Y.); (C.H.)
- Guangdong Research Center of Polarization Imaging and Measurement Engineering Technology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China;
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- Guangdong Research Center of Polarization Imaging and Measurement Engineering Technology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China;
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Scarponi P, Caminiti V, Bravi M, Izzo FC, Cavinato C. Coupling anaerobic co-digestion of winery waste and waste activated sludge with a microalgae process: Optimization of a semi-continuous system. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2024; 174:300-309. [PMID: 38086294 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2023.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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Wine production represents one of the most important agro-industrial sectors in Italy. Wine lees are the most significant waste in the winery industry and have high disposal and storage costs and few applications within the circular economy. In this study, anaerobic digestion and a microalgae coupled process was studied in order to treat wine lees and waste activated sludge produced within the same facility, with the aim of producing energy and valuable microalgae biomass that could be processed to recover biofuel or biostimulant. Chlorella vulgaris was cultivated on liquid digestate in a semi-continuous system without biomass recirculation. The best growth and phytoremediation performance were achieved applying a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 20 days with a stable dry weight, lipid and protein storage of 1.85 ± 0.02 g l-1, 33.48 ± 7.54 % and 57.85 ± 10.14 % respectively. Lipid characterization highlighted the potential use in high quality biodiesel production, according to EN14214 (<12 % v/v linolenic acid). The microalgae reactor's liquid output showed high removal of ammonia (95.72 ± 2.10 %), but low organic soluble matter reduction. Further semi-continuous process optimization was carried out by increasing the time between digestate feeding and biomass recovery at HRT 10. These operative changes avoided biomass wash-out and provided a stable phytoremediation of the digestate with 84.58 ± 4.02 % ammonia removal, 33.01 ± 1.44 % sCOD removal, 38.06 ± 2.65 % of polyphenols removal.
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- P Scarponi
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, via Torino 155, 30172 Venice, Italy.
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- Department of Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment, University of Padova, viale dell'Università, 16, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza University of Rome, via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, via Torino 155, 30172 Venice, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, University Ca' Foscari of Venice, via Torino 155, 30172 Venice, Italy
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Sobolewska E, Borowski S, Nowicka-Krawczyk P, Jurczak T. Growth of microalgae and cyanobacteria consortium in a photobioreactor treating liquid anaerobic digestate from vegetable waste. Sci Rep 2023; 13:22651. [PMID: 38114556 PMCID: PMC10730507 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-50173-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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This research examines the biological treatment of undiluted vegetable waste digestate conducted in a bubble column photobioreactor. Initially, the bioreactor containing 3N-BBM medium was inoculated with Microglena sp., Tetradesmus obliquus, and Desmodesmus subspicatus mixture with a density of 1.0 × 104 cells/mL and the consortium was cultivated for 30 days. Then, the bioreactor was semi-continuously fed with liquid digestate with hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 30 days, and the treatment process was continued for the next 15 weeks. The change in the microalgal and cyanobacterial species domination was measured in regular intervals using cell counting with droplet method on a microscope slide. At the end of the experiment, Desmonostoc sp. cyanobacteria (identified with 16S ribosomal RNA genetical analysis) as well as Tetradesmus obliquus green algae along with Rhodanobacteraceae and Planococcaceae bacteria (determined with V3-V4 16sRNA metagenomic studies) dominated the microbial community in the photobioreactor. The experiment demonstrated high treatment efficiency, since nitrogen and soluble COD were removed by 89.3 ± 0.5% and 91.2 ± 1.6%, respectively, whereas for phosphates, 72.8 ± 2.1% removal rate was achieved.
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- Ewelina Sobolewska
- Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, Lodz University of Technology, 116 Żeromskiego street, 90-924, Lodz, Poland.
- Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Lodz University of Technology, 171/173 Wólczańska street, 90-530, Lodz, Poland.
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- Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Lodz University of Technology, 171/173 Wólczańska street, 90-530, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Algology and Mycology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 12/16 Banacha street, 90-237, Lodz, Poland
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- UNESCO Chair On Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 12/16 Banacha street, 90-237, Lodz, Poland
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Ali A, Khalid Z, Ahmed A A, Ajarem JS. Wastewater treatment by using microalgae: Insights into fate, transport, and associated challenges. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 338:139501. [PMID: 37453525 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 07/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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The remediation of wastewater with microalgae is a new topic that concentrates on devising a cost-effective and environmentally beneficial method. Multiple microalgae and bacterial consortiums have recently been evaluated to determine if they can purify effluent from various sources. Critical to a system's efficacy is its ability to remove nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and heavy metals such as arsenic (As), lead (Pb), and copper (Cu). This study compared traditional wastewater treatment systems to microalgae-based systems for treating different types of wastewater. The research investigates the potential for microalgae to cleanse wastewater. The research also evaluates wastewater parameters, methods, and scientific techniques for extracting nutrients and heavy metals from polluted water. According to the literature, Microalgae can remove between 98.7% and 100% of nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), and heavy metals from various effluents. The paper concludes by discussing the difficulties of using microalgae to remediate wastewater. The elimination of nutrients from the effluent is influenced by biomass production, osmotic capacity, temperature, pH, and O2 concentration. Therefore, a "pilot" study is recommended to investigate contaminants.
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- Atif Ali
- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Wang S, Zhao Q, Yu H, Du X, Zhang T, Sun T, Song W. Assessing the potential of Chlorella sp. phycoremediation liquid digestates from brewery wastes mixture integrated with bioproduct production. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2023; 11:1199472. [PMID: 37388770 PMCID: PMC10303122 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1199472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023] Open
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Digestates from different anaerobic digesters are promising substrates for microalgal culture, leading to effective wastewater treatment and the production of microalgal biomass. However, further detailed research is needed before they can be used on a large scale. The aims of this study were to investigate the culture of Chlorella sp. in DigestateM from anaerobic fermentation of brewer's grains and brewery wastewater (BWW) and to explore the potential use of the biomass produced under different experimental conditions, including diverse cultivation modes and dilution ratios. Cultivation in DigestateM initiated from 10% (v/v) loading, with 20% BWW, obtained maximum biomass production, reaching 1.36 g L-1 that was 0.27g L-1 higher than 1.09 g L-1 of BG11. In terms of DigestateM remediation, the maximum removal of ammonia nitrogen (NH4 +-N), chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus reached 98.20%, 89.98%, 86.98%, and 71.86%, respectively. The maximum lipid, carbohydrate, and protein contents were 41.60%, 32.44%, and 27.72%, respectively. The growth of Chlorella sp. may be inhibited when the Y(II)-Fv/Fm ratio is less than 0.4.
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Alazaiza MYD, He S, Su D, Abu Amr SS, Toh PY, Bashir MJK. Sewage Water Treatment Using Chlorella Vulgaris Microalgae for Simultaneous Nutrient Separation and Biomass Production. SEPARATIONS 2023. [DOI: 10.3390/separations10040229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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Recovery of wastewater is essential for better management of water resources and can aid in reducing regional or seasonal water shortages. When algae were used to clean wastewater, amazing benefits were guaranteed, such as a decrease in the formation of dangerous solid sludge and the creation of valuable algal biomass through recycling of the nutrients in the wastewater. The trace elements nitrogen, phosphorus, and others that microalgae need for cell development are frequently present in contaminated wastewater. Hence, microalgal bioremediation is used in this study as an effective technique for the simultaneous treatment of COD, NH3-N, and orthophosphate from domestic wastewater and biomass production. Different concentrations of wastewaters were used. The maximum removals attained were: 84% of COD on the fifth day using the lowest mixing ratio of 50%, 95% of ammoniacal nitrogen, and 97% of phosphorus. The highest biomass production was achieved at day 12, except for the mixing ratio of 80% where the growth rate increased until day 14 at 400 mg/L.
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Han T, Han X, Ye X, Xi Y, Zhang Y, Guan H. Applying mixotrophy strategy to enhance biomass production and nutrient recovery of Chlorella pyrenoidosa from biogas slurry: An assessment of the mixotrophic synergistic effect. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 366:128185. [PMID: 36307028 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Using biogas slurry to cultivate microalgae can simultaneously obtain microalgal biomass and allow nutrient recovery. Mixotrophic microalgae are widely recognized for their high biomass accumulation and low light dependence, making it possible to overcome the drawbacks of photoautotrophy. In this study, three complete metabolic modes of photoautotrophy, heterotrophy, mixotrophy and two incomplete metabolic modes with the addition of diuron and rotenone were applied to investigate Chlorella pyrenoidosa growth in biogas slurry. The results showed that the mixotrophic group obtained 1.15 g/L biomass, 30 % starch content, 99.40 % ammonium removal and 81.69 % total phosphorus removal, which were highly promoted compared to the others. The decline in chlorophyll, the simultaneous downregulation of Rubisco and citrate synthase and the increase in the actual quantum yield of PSII under mixotrophy revealed a synergistic effect: the complementation of photophosphorylation and oxidative phosphorylation greatly contributed to maximizing energy metabolism efficiency and minimizing energy dissipation loss.
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- Ting Han
- Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China; Key Laboratory of Crop and Livestock Integration, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210014, China
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- Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China; Key Laboratory of Crop and Livestock Integration, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China.
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- Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China; Key Laboratory of Crop and Livestock Integration, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
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- Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China; Key Laboratory of Crop and Livestock Integration, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210014, China
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- School of Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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Development of marine activated algae-bacterial granule: A novel replacement to the conventional algal remediation processes. ALGAL RES 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2022.102914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Mahmoud RH, Wang Z, He Z. Production of algal biomass on electrochemically recovered nutrients from anaerobic digestion centrate. ALGAL RES 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2022.102846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Sfetsas T, Patsatzis S, Chioti A, Kopteropoulos A, Dimitropoulou G, Tsioni V, Kotsopoulos T. A review of advances in valorization and post-treatment of anaerobic digestion liquid fraction effluent. WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH : THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOLID WASTES AND PUBLIC CLEANSING ASSOCIATION, ISWA 2022; 40:1093-1109. [PMID: 35057678 DOI: 10.1177/0734242x211073000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Traditionally, digestate is considered a waste, which is used as fertiliser in the agriculture industry. Recent studies focus on increasing the profitability of digestate by extracting reusable nutrients to promote biogas plants cost-effectiveness, sustainable management and circular economy. This review focuses on the post-treatment and valorization of liquor which is produced by solid-liquid fractioning of digestate. Nutrient recovery and removal from liquor are possible through mechanical, physicochemical and biological procedures. The processes discussed involve complex procedures that differ in economic value, feasibility, legislative restrictions and performance. The parameters that should be considered to employ these techniques are influenced by liquor characteristics, topography, climate conditions and available resources. These are key parameters to keep in mind during designing and manufacturing a biogas plant. In the following chapters, a discussion on available liquor treatment methods takes place. The present study examines the critical aspects of the available liquor treatment methods.
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- Themistoklis Sfetsas
- Research & Development, Quality Control and Testing Services, QLAB Private Company, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Research & Development, Quality Control and Testing Services, QLAB Private Company, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Research & Development, Quality Control and Testing Services, QLAB Private Company, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Research & Development, Quality Control and Testing Services, QLAB Private Company, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Research & Development, Quality Control and Testing Services, QLAB Private Company, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Research & Development, Quality Control and Testing Services, QLAB Private Company, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Torres-Franco AF, Silva G, Freitas MP, Passos F, Mota Filho CR, Figueredo CC. Effect of digestate loading rates on microalgae-based treatment under low LED light intensity. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2022; 43:3023-3036. [PMID: 33830869 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2021.1914178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Low red-LED irradiances are an attractive alternative for enhancing microalgae photobioreactors treating digestate due to their potential contribution in decreasing area footprints with low energy consumptions. However, more information is required regarding the influence of digestate load on treatment performance and biomass valorisation when low-intensity red-LEDs are applied. Thus, this study assessed microalgae-based photobioreactors treating food waste digestate under different concentrations (5%, 25%, 50%, and 75%, v/v) at low red-LED irradiance (15 µmol·m-2·s-1). The removal efficiencies of soluble chemical oxygen demand (sCOD) at the end of the experiment ranged from 45% to 75% when treating influent loads between 5.3 and 79.1 g sCOD·m-3·d-1 (5% and 75%-digestate), respectively. Total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) was applied in loading rates between 3.2 and 48.5 g TAN·m-3·d-1 (5% and 75%, respectively) and removed with maximum efficiencies of 90%-100% in all trials. Nitrification-denitrification was proportionally more relevant when treating 5%-digestate, whereas volatilisation was the primary process in 25%, 50% and 75% concentrations. Microalgae presented adequate yields in all treatments, except in 75%-digestate, likely due to the blocking of light by the high solids concentrations. The assessment of the microalgae community and chlorophyll-a and carotenoids suggested that chlorophytes, mainly Dictyosphaerium pulchellum and Scenedesmus sp. grew autotrophically, whereas cyanobacteria Pseudanabaena sp. grew mixotrophically. Moreover, the sustainability of red LED lighting applications can be increased by anaerobic digestion or agricultural valorisation of the biomass, enabled by its high N and P contents. Low-intensity red-LEDs may have promissory applications in the treatment of high-strength wastewaters.
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- Andrés Felipe Torres-Franco
- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Mastropetros SG, Koutra E, Amouri M, Aziza M, Ali SS, Kornaros M. Comparative Assessment of Nitrogen Concentration Effect on Microalgal Growth and Biochemical Characteristics of Two Chlorella Strains Cultivated in Digestate. Mar Drugs 2022; 20:md20070415. [PMID: 35877708 PMCID: PMC9323968 DOI: 10.3390/md20070415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Microalgae have been recently recognized as a promising alternative for the effective treatment of anaerobic digestion effluents. However, to date, a widely applied microalgae-based process is still absent, due to several constraints mainly attributed to high ammonia concentrations and turbidity, both hindering microalgal growth. Within this scope, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the performance of two Chlorella strains, SAG 211-11b and a local Algerian isolate, under different nitrogen levels, upon ammonia stripping. The experiments were performed on cylindrical photobioreactors under controlled pH (7.8 ± 0.2) and temperature (25 ± 2 °C). Cultures were monitored for biomass production and substrate consumption. After sampling at the beginning of the stationary phase of growth (12th day) and after the maturation of the cells (24th day), an analysis of the produced biomass was conducted, in terms of its biochemical components. The local isolate grew better than C. vulgaris 211-11b, resulting in 1.43 mg L−1 biomass compared to 1.02 mg L−1 under 25 mg NH4-N L−1, while organic carbon and nutrient consumption varied between the two strains and different conditions. Concerning biomass quality, a high initial NH4-N concentration led to high protein content, while low nitrogen levels favored fatty acid (FA) accumulation, though the production of pigments was inhibited. In particular, the protein content of the final biomass was determined close to 45% of the dry weight in all experimental scenarios with adequate nitrogen, while proteins decreased, and the fatty acids approached 20% in the case of the local isolate grown on the substrate with the lowest initial ammonium nitrogen (25 mg NH4-N L−1). The novelty of the present work lies in the comparison of a microalga with industrial applications against a local isolate of the same species, which may prove to be even more robust and profitable.
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- Savvas Giannis Mastropetros
- Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering & Environmental Technology (LBEET), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece; (S.G.M.); (E.K.)
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- Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering & Environmental Technology (LBEET), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece; (S.G.M.); (E.K.)
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- Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (CDER), BP. 62, Route de l’Observatoire, Algiers 16340, Algeria; (M.A.); (M.A.)
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- Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (CDER), BP. 62, Route de l’Observatoire, Algiers 16340, Algeria; (M.A.); (M.A.)
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- School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Biofuels Institute, Jiangsu University, Xuefu Road 301, Zhenjiang 212013, China;
- Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt
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- Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering & Environmental Technology (LBEET), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece; (S.G.M.); (E.K.)
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Microalgae Cultivation on Nutrient Rich Digestate: The Importance of Strain and Digestate Tailoring under PH Control. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12115429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The bioremediation of digestate using microalgae presents a solution to the current eutrophication issue in Northwest Europe, where the use of digestate as soil fertiliser is limited, thus resulting in an excess of digestate. Ammonium is the main nutrient of interest in digestate for microalgal cultivation, and improving its availability and consequent uptake is crucial for optimal bioremediation. This work aimed to determine the influence of pH on ammonium availability in cultures of two green microalgae, additionally screened for their growth performances on three digestates produced from different feedstocks, demonstrating the importance of tailoring a microalgal strain and digestate for bioremediation purposes. Results showed that an acidic pH of 6–6.5 resulted in a better ammonium availability in the digestate media, translated into better growth yields for both S. obliquus (GR: 0.099 ± 0.001 day−1; DW: 0.23 ± 0.02 g L−1) and C. vulgaris (GR: 0.09 ± 0.001 day−1; DW: 0.49 ± 0.012 g L−1). This result was especially true when considering larger-scale applications where ammonium loss via evaporation should be avoided. The results also demonstrated that digestates from different feedstocks resulted in different growth yields and biomass composition, especially fatty acids, for which, a digestate produced from pig manure resulted in acid contents of 6.94 ± 0.033% DW and 4.91 ± 0.3% DW in S. obliquus and C. vulgaris, respectively. Finally, this work demonstrated that the acclimation of microalgae to novel nutrient sources should be carefully considered, as it could convey significant advantages in terms of biomass composition, especially fatty acids and carbohydrate, for which, this study also demonstrated the importance of harvesting time.
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Cultivation of Microalgae in Unsterile Malting Effluent for Biomass Production and Lipid Productivity Improvement. FERMENTATION 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/fermentation8040186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Microalgae have the potential to grow in nutrient-rich environments and have the ability to accumulate nutrients from wastewater. The nutrients in malting wastewater are ideal for microalgae cultivation. However, there is limited published work on the growth characteristics of freshwater microalgae grown in malting effluent. This study examined the potential of diluted malting effluent for the growth of freshwater green algae Chlorella sp. and Chlamydomonas sp. isolated from northern Ontario and subsequent biomass and lipid production. Under the 18:6 h light/dark cultivation cycle, the highest cell number counted (540 × 104 cell·mL−1 on day 20) and total chlorophyll content were found in 50% diluted malting effluents for Chlorella sp., whereas the 70% dilution concentration was the most productive for Chlamydomonas (386 × 104 cell·mL−1 on day 16). The total lipid content was higher in the 50% dilution concentration of malting effluent in both Chlorella sp. (maximum 20.5%–minimum 11.5% of dry weight) and Chlamydomonas sp. (max 39.3%–min 25.9% of dry weight). These results emphasize the suitability of using unsterile diluted malting effluent for microalgae cultivation.
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Seelam JS, Fernandes de Souza M, Chaerle P, Willems B, Michels E, Vyverman W, Meers E. Maximizing nutrient recycling from digestate for production of protein-rich microalgae for animal feed application. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 290:133180. [PMID: 34871606 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The integration of phototrophic microalgal production and anaerobic digestion can recycle excess nutrients across European surplus hotspots to produce protein-rich biomass for nutritional applications. However, the challenging physico-chemical properties of raw digestate constrain microalgal growth and limit digestate valorization potential. This study focused on the pre-treatment of food waste-based digestate using paper-filtration to improve its properties for cultivating Desmodesmus sp. and Chlorella vulgaris. The microalgal growth performance in paper-filtered digestate (PFD, 10 μm-pore size) was then compared to growth in membrane-filtered digestate (MFD, 0.2 μm-pore size). A microplate-based screening coupled with Cytation device assessment of PFD and MFD samples after dilution and with/without phosphorus supplementation showed that PFD was the best substrate. Moreover, phosphorus supplementation resulted in improved growth at higher digestate concentrations (5-10% v/v PFD), indicating the importance of using a balanced growth medium to increase the volumetric usage of digestate. Results were validated in a 3-L bioreactor at 10% PFD with phosphorus supplementation, reaching a biomass concentration of 2.4 g L-1 with a protein and carbohydrate content of 67% and 13% w/w respectively. This trial indicates that paper-filtration is a promising pre-treatment technique to maximize digestate recycling and deliver a sustainable animal feed-grade protein alternative.
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- Jai Sankar Seelam
- Department of Green Chemistry & Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Green Chemistry & Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Green Chemistry & Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Green Chemistry & Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Al-Mallahi J, Ishii K. Attempts to alleviate inhibitory factors of anaerobic digestate for enhanced microalgae cultivation and nutrients removal: A review. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 304:114266. [PMID: 34906810 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Revised: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Anaerobic digestion is a well-established process that is applied to treat organic wastes and convert the carbon to valuable methane gas as a source of energy. The digestate that comes out as a by-product is of a great challenge due to its high nutrient content that can be toxic in case of improper disposal to the environment. Several attempts have been done to valorize this digestate. Digestate has been considered as an interesting medium to cultivate microalgae. The nutrients available in the digestate, mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, can be an interesting supplement for microalgae growth requirement. The main obstacles of using digestate as a medium to cultivate microalgae are the dark color and the high ammonium-nitrogen concentration. The focus of this review is to discuss in detail the major attempts in research to overcome inhibition and enhance microalgae cultivation in digestate. This review initially discussed the obstacles of digestate as a medium for microalgae cultivation. Different processes to overcome inhibition were discussed including dilution, supplying additional carbon source, favoring mixotrophic cultivation and pretreatment. More emphasis in this review was given to digestate pretreatment. Among the pretreatment methods, filtration, and centrifugation were of the most applied ones. These strategies were found to be effective for turbidity and chromaticity reduction. For ammonium nitrogen removal, ammonia stripping and biological pretreatment methods were found to play a vital role. Adsorption could work both ways depending on the material used. Combining different pretreatment methods as well as including selected microalgae stains were found interesting strategies to facilitate microalgae cultivation with no dilution. This study recommend that more study should investigate the optimization of microalgae cultivation in anaerobic digestate without the need for dilution.
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- Jumana Al-Mallahi
- Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13, W18, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan.
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- Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13, W18, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan
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Wang D, Li A. Effect of zero-valent iron and granular activated carbon on nutrient removal and community assembly of photogranules treating low-strength wastewater. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 806:151311. [PMID: 34743817 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Traditional wastewater treatment processes with high energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are not suitable for rural areas with low sewage strength and wide distribution. In this study, a microalgae-bacteria synergistic photogranules system was developed under the impetus of green chemical additives to address these challenges. The results showed that zero-valent iron (ZVI) or granular activated carbon (GAC) addition made successful photogranulation treating low-strength wastewater with excellent settleability and stability performance (settling velocity: 14-22 m h-1; integrity coefficient: 0.81-6.62%), while systems without light or additives failed due to the bio-granules disintegration caused by the overgrowth of predators or phototrophic species. A better nutrient removal performance (TN < 15 mg L-1, TP < 0.4 mg L-1) was observed in photogranules systems, and stoichiometric and biological analysis found that the divisions of nitrogen removal by microalgae and bacteria were different for photogranules between GAC and ZVI additions. As a physical enhancer, GAC can be used as the nucleus of photogranules regenerating after granules disintegration rather than affecting the community succession process. However, ZVI addition strengthened the sedimentation ability and stability of photogranules through chemical and biological effects, focusing on enhancing bacterial community diversity, enriching biofilm formation bacteria and inhibiting the overgrowth of filamentous cyanobacteria. Notably, the photogranules process with ZVI addition could be operated under non-aeration conditions without compromising removal efficiency. There existed an ideal distribution of microalgae and bacterial functional species in the photogranules, which seemed to be essential for its self-sustained synergistic symbiosis and stability. Consequently, this work might provide engineering alternatives for realizing carbon neutrality and environmental sustainability of the decentralized wastewater treatment process for low-strength wastewater in rural areas.
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- Danyang Wang
- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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Chong CC, Cheng YW, Ishak S, Lam MK, Lim JW, Tan IS, Show PL, Lee KT. Anaerobic digestate as a low-cost nutrient source for sustainable microalgae cultivation: A way forward through waste valorization approach. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 803:150070. [PMID: 34525689 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Revised: 08/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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To suffice the escalating global energy demand, microalgae are deemed as high potential surrogate feedstocks for liquid fuels. The major encumbrance for the commercialization of microalgae cultivation is due to the high costs of nutrients such as carbon, phosphorous, and nitrogen. Meanwhile, the organic-rich anaerobic digestate which is difficult to be purified by conventional techniques is appropriate to be used as a low-cost nutrient source for the economic viability and sustainability of microalgae production. This option is also beneficial in terms of reutilize the organic fraction of solid waste instead of discarded as zero-value waste. Anaerobic digestate is the side product of biogas production during anaerobic digestion process, where optimum nutrients are needed to satisfy the physiological needs to grow microalgae. Besides, the turbidity, competing biological contaminants, ammonia and metal toxicity of the digestate are also potentially contributing to the inhibition of microalgae growth. Thus, this review is aimed to explicate the feasibility of utilizing the anaerobic digestate to cultivate microalgae by evaluating their potential challenges and solutions. The proposed potential solutions (digestate dilution and pre-treatment, microalgae strain selection, extra organics addition, nitrification and desulfurization) corresponding to the state-of-the-art challenges are applicable as future directions of the research.
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- Chi Cheng Chong
- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering and Computing, Manipal International University, 71800 Putra Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering and Computing, Manipal International University, 71800 Putra Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia; HICoE-Centre for Biofuel and Biochemical Research (CBBR), Institute for Self-sustainable Building, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia; HICoE-Centre for Biofuel and Biochemical Research (CBBR), Institute for Self-sustainable Building, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia.
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- HICoE-Centre for Biofuel and Biochemical Research (CBBR), Institute for Self-sustainable Building, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia; Department of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Sarawak Campus CDT 250, 98009 Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, Semenyih 43500, Selangor, Malaysia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Seri Ampangan, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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Chu R, Hu D, Zhu L, Li S, Yin Z, Yu Y. Recycling spent water from microalgae harvesting by fungal pellets to re-cultivate Chlorella vulgaris under different nutrient loads for biodiesel production. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 344:126227. [PMID: 34743995 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Fungal pellet is an emerging material to collect oleaginous microalgae, but rare studies have noticed that harvested water is available resource for the next round of cultivation. To systematically optimize regrowth performances of microalgae Chlorella vulgaris, separated water after harvesting by fungi Aspergillus oryzae was prepared under different N/P ratios. The results showed that chlorophylls and enzymes were significantly affected by the proportion of N and P. Although nutrient deficiency was functioned as a stress factor to restrict carbohydrate and protein synthesis, lipid content was obviously increased by 12.69%. The percentage of saturated fatty acids associated with oxidation stability increased, while this part in fresh wastewater accounted for only 36.96%. The favorable biomass concentration (1.37 g/L) with the highest lipid yield (0.42 g/L) appeared in N/P of 6:1. More strikingly, suitable conditions could save 52.4% of cultivation costs. These experiments confirmed that reusing bioflocculated water could be effectively utilized for biodiesel production.
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- Ruoyu Chu
- School of Resources & Environmental Science, Hubei International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Sustainable Resource and Energy, Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass-Resources Chemistry and Environmental Biotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- School of Resources & Environmental Science, Hubei International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Sustainable Resource and Energy, Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass-Resources Chemistry and Environmental Biotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- School of Resources & Environmental Science, Hubei International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Sustainable Resource and Energy, Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass-Resources Chemistry and Environmental Biotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, PR China.
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- School of Resources & Environmental Science, Hubei International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Sustainable Resource and Energy, Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass-Resources Chemistry and Environmental Biotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- School of Resources & Environmental Science, Hubei International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Sustainable Resource and Energy, Hubei Key Laboratory of Biomass-Resources Chemistry and Environmental Biotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, PR China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Health Risk Assessment, South China Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, PR China
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Comprehensive assessment of the microalgae-nitrifying bacteria competition in microalgae-based wastewater treatment systems: Relevant factors, evaluation methods and control strategies. ALGAL RES 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2021.102563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Ahmed SF, Mofijur M, Parisa TA, Islam N, Kusumo F, Inayat A, Le VG, Badruddin IA, Khan TMY, Ong HC. Progress and challenges of contaminate removal from wastewater using microalgae biomass. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 286:131656. [PMID: 34325255 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The utilization of microalgae in treating wastewater has been an emerging topic focussed on finding an economically sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to treating wastewater. Over the last several years, different types of con microalgae and bacteria consortia have been experimented with to explore their potential in effectively treating wastewater from different sources. The basic features considered while determining efficiency is their capacity to remove nutrients including nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and heavy metals like arsenic (As), lead (Pb), and copper (Cu). This paper reviews the efficiency of microalgae as an approach to treating wastewater from different sources and compares conventional and microalgae-based treatment systems. The paper also discusses the characteristics of wastewater, conventional methods of wastewater treatment that have been used so far, and the technological mechanisms for removing nutrients and heavy metals from contaminated water. Microalgae can successfully eliminate the suspended nutrients and have been reported to successfully remove N, P, and heavy metals by up to 99.6 %, 100 %, and 13%-100 % from different types of wastewater. However, although a microalgae-based wastewater treatment system offers some benefits, it also presents some challenges as outlined in the last section of this paper. Performance in eliminating nutrients from wastewater is affected by different parameters such as temperature, biomass productivity, osmotic ability, pH, O2 concentration. Therefore, the conducting of pilot-scale studies and exploration of the complexities of contaminants under complex environmental conditions is recommended.
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- Shams Forruque Ahmed
- Science and Math Program, Asian University for Women, Chattogram, 4000, Bangladesh.
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- Centre for Green Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia; Mechanical Engineering Department, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, 31952, Saudi Arabia.
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- Science and Math Program, Asian University for Women, Chattogram, 4000, Bangladesh
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- Science and Math Program, Asian University for Women, Chattogram, 4000, Bangladesh
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- Centre for Green Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, 27272, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, 61421, Saudi Arabia
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, 61421, Saudi Arabia
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- Centre for Green Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia.
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Depth optimization of inclined thin layer photobioreactor for efficient microalgae cultivation in high turbidity digestate. ALGAL RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2021.102509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Ekielski A, Żelaziński T, Mishra PK, Skudlarski J. Properties of Biocomposites Produced with Thermoplastic Starch and Digestate: Physicochemical and Mechanical Characteristics. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 14:6092. [PMID: 34683684 PMCID: PMC8537029 DOI: 10.3390/ma14206092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This paper presents the results of a study on the influence of the addition of digestate (DG) sludge from an agricultural biogas plant on the mechanical properties of the coating obtained from thermoplastic starch (TPS). The dried, fragmented digestate, some of which had previously undergone ultrasound treatment, is used in the study. Biocomposites are produced by the pouring method using Teflon moulds as matrices. The physicomechanical study included the determination of the basic parameters of the materials obtained. Strength parameters, the contact angle, thermogravimetric properties (TGA), colour and colour difference and moisture absorption are determined. Photographs of the surface of the samples are taken with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) as well. It is found that the addition of the digestate has an advantageous effect on improving the physical and mechanical parameters. In general, samples with digestate also have a higher strength compared to the pure TPS material. The highest tensile strength and Young's modulus are found in samples with the 14 wt% addition of ultrasound-treated digestate. On the basis of this study, it can be concluded that the addition of digestate is a promising approach for the production of TPS biocomposites with superior mechanical properties.
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- Adam Ekielski
- Department of Production Engineering, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Nowoursynowska 164, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland; (A.E.); (J.S.)
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- Department of Production Engineering, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Nowoursynowska 164, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland; (A.E.); (J.S.)
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- Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic;
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- Department of Production Engineering, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Nowoursynowska 164, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland; (A.E.); (J.S.)
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Plöhn M, Spain O, Sirin S, Silva M, Escudero-Oñate C, Ferrando-Climent L, Allahverdiyeva Y, Funk C. Wastewater treatment by microalgae. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2021; 173:568-578. [PMID: 33860948 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The growth of the world's population increases the demand for fresh water, food, energy, and technology, which in turn leads to increasing amount of wastewater, produced both by domestic and industrial sources. These different wastewaters contain a wide variety of organic and inorganic compounds which can cause tremendous environmental problems if released untreated. Traditional treatment systems are usually expensive, energy demanding and are often still incapable of solving all challenges presented by the produced wastewaters. Microalgae are promising candidates for wastewater reclamation as they are capable of reducing the amount of nitrogen and phosphate as well as other toxic compounds including heavy metals or pharmaceuticals. Compared to the traditional systems, photosynthetic microalgae require less energy input since they use sunlight as their energy source, and at the same time lower the carbon footprint of the overall reclamation process. This mini-review focuses on recent advances in wastewater reclamation using microalgae. The most common microalgal strains used for this purpose are described as well as the challenges of using wastewater from different origins. We also describe the impact of climate with a particular focus on a Nordic climate.
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- Martin Plöhn
- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Kjeller, Norway
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- Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Life Technologies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Lee SA, Ko SR, Lee N, Lee JW, Le VV, Oh HM, Ahn CY. Two-step microalgal (Coelastrella sp.) treatment of raw piggery wastewater resulting in higher lipid and triacylglycerol levels for possible production of higher-quality biodiesel. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2021; 332:125081. [PMID: 33819856 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Revised: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Microalgal treatment of undiluted raw piggery wastewater is challenging due to ammonia toxicity and a deep dark color hampering photosynthesis. To overcome these problems, (1) a microalga (Coelastrella sp.) was isolated from an ammonia-rich environment, (2) the wastewater treatment was divided into two steps: a heterotrophic process followed by a mixotrophic process, and (3) a narrower transparent photobioreactor was employed with higher light intensity in the mixotrophic process. Coelastrella sp. removed 99% of ammonia, 92% of chemical oxygen demand (COD), and 100% of phosphorus during the 4-day process. Acetate in the wastewater relieved the ammonia stress on microalgae and promoted algal lipid and triacylglycerol productivity. Oxidative stability and low-temperature fluidity of triacylglycerols in lipids were improved by means of an altered fatty acid profile. Aside from the overall microalgal treatment performance, the proposed processing of piggery wastewater yielded a material suitable for possible production of algal biodiesel of better quality.
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- Sang-Ah Lee
- Cell Factory Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Cell Factory Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Bioresource Collection, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources, 99, Gohadoan-gil, Mokpo-si, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Cell Factory Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Department of Life Science and Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Cell Factory Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Cell Factory Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Cell Factory Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental Biotechnology, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea.
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Sun Y, Chen Y, Wei J, Zhang X, Zhang L, Yang Z, Huang Y. Ultraviolet-B radiation stress alters the competitive outcome of algae: Based on analyzing population dynamics and photosynthesis. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 272:129645. [PMID: 33465615 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 01/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The solar ultraviolet-B radiation (UVB) is increasingly affecting the aquatic ecosystems due to the long-term antropic damage to the stratospheric ozone. The distrupted interspecies competition is one of the primary causes driving the plankton community composition shifts under UVB stress. To reveal the competitive responses to enhanced UVB radiation, we grew two green algae Scenedesmus obliquus and Chlorella pyrenoidosa, and the unicellular cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa in monocultures and in cocultures under differerent UVB intensities (0, 0.3 and 0.7 W m-2), respectively. Results showed that elevated UVB radiation consistently decreased the population carrying capacies and the photosynthesis of the three species in monocultures. While cocultivated, C. pyrenoidosa was competively excluded by the presence of S. obliquus, and the competitive outcome was not affected by UVB exposure. By contrast, unicellular M. aeruginosa overwhelmingly suppressed the population growth of S. obliquus under no UVB, yet S. obliquus tended to be a better competitor under 0.3-0.7 W m-2 UVB exposure. The species-specific photosynthesis sensitivity to UVB can partly explain the different tolerance of the algae to UVB and the change of competition outcome under elevated UVB. The present study elucidated the potential role of increased UVB radiation in determining the competitions between phytoplankton species, contributing to the understanding of phytoplankton community shifts under enhanced UVB stress.
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- Yunfei Sun
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, China.
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Dalvi V, Chawla P, Malik A. Year-long performance assessment of an on-site pilot scale (100 L) photobioreactor on nutrient recovery and pathogen removal from urban wastewater using native microalgal consortium. ALGAL RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2021.102228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pei XY, Ren HY, Liu BF. Flocculation performance and mechanism of fungal pellets on harvesting of microalgal biomass. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2021; 321:124463. [PMID: 33290984 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In this study, a bioflocculation method assisted by fungal pellets was developed for highly efficient microalgae harvesting. Effects of critical parameters, including flocculation type, temperature, rotation speed and initial pH, on the bioflocculation of fungal Aspergillus niger for microalgae Scenedesmus sp. were investigated. Results showed that the maximum flocculation efficiency of 99.4% was obtained when the fungal pellets were inoculated in the algal solution at the initial pH of 8.0, temperature of 30 °C and rotation speed of 160 rpm for 48 h in BG-11 medium. Furthermore, microscopy examination, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Zeta potential measurement and three-dimensional excitation emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy were used to explore the mechanism of bioflocculation process. It was found that the interaction of fungi and microalgae was related to the surface functional groups of fungal pellets. This study provides a interpretation of conceivable mechanism for microalgal bioflocculation by fungal pellets.
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- Xuan-Yuan Pei
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.
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Digestate as Sustainable Nutrient Source for Microalgae—Challenges and Prospects. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/app11031056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The interest in microalgae products has been increasing, and therefore the cultivation industry is growing steadily. To reduce the environmental impact and production costs arising from nutrients, research needs to find alternatives to the currently used artificial nutrients. Microalgae cultivation in anaerobic effluents (more specifically, digestate) represents a promising strategy for increasing sustainability and obtaining valuable products. However, digestate must be processed prior to its use as nutrient source. Depending on its composition, different methods are suitable for removing solids (e.g., centrifugation) and adjusting nutrient concentrations and ratios (e.g., dilution, ammonia stripping). Moreover, the resulting cultivation medium must be light-permeable. Various studies show that growth rates comparable to those in artificial media can be achieved when proper digestate treatment is used. The necessary steps for obtaining a suitable cultivation medium also depend on the microalgae species to be cultivated. Concerning the application of the biomass, legal aspects and impurities originating from digestate must be considered. Furthermore, microalgae species and their application fields are essential criteria when selecting downstream processing methods (harvest, disintegration, dehydration, product purification). Microalgae grown on digestate can be used to produce various products (e.g., bioenergy, animal feed, bioplastics, and biofertilizers). This review gives insight into the origin and composition of digestate, processing options to meet requirements for microalgae cultivation and challenges regarding downstream processing and products.
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Growing Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) in seawater supplemented with digestate: Trade-offs between increased salinity, nutrient and light availability. Biochem Eng J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2020.107815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fernandes F, Silkina A, Fuentes-Grünewald C, Wood EE, Ndovela VLS, Oatley-Radcliffe DL, Lovitt RW, Llewellyn CA. Valorising nutrient-rich digestate: Dilution, settlement and membrane filtration processing for optimisation as a waste-based media for microalgal cultivation. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2020; 118:197-208. [PMID: 32892096 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2020] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Digestate produced from the anaerobic digestion of food and farm waste is primarily returned to land as a biofertiliser for crops, with its potential to generate value through alternative processing methods at present under explored. In this work, valorisation of a digestate resulting from the treatment of kitchen and food waste was investigated, using dilution, settlement and membrane processing technology. Processed digestate was subsequently tested as a nutrient source for the cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris, up to pilot-scale (800L). Dilution of digestate down to 2.5% increased settlement rate and induced release of valuable compounds for fertiliser usage such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Settlement, as a partial processing of digestate offered a physical separation of liquid and solid fractions at a low cost. Membrane filtration demonstrated efficient segregation of nutrients, with micro-filtration recovering 92.38% of phosphorus and the combination of micro-filtration, ultra-filtration, and nano-filtration recovering a total of 94.35% of nitrogen from digestate. Nano-filtered and micro-filtered digestates at low concentrations were suitable substrates to support growth of Chlorella vulgaris. At pilot-scale, the microalgae grew successfully for 28 days with a maximum growth rate of 0.62 day-1 and dry weight of 0.86 g⋅L-1. Decline in culture growth beyond 28 days was presumably linked to ammonium and heavy metal accumulation in the cultivation medium. Processed digestate provided a suitable nutrient source for successful microalgal cultivation at pilot-scale, evidencing potential to convert excess nutrients into biomass, generating value from excess digestate and providing additional markets to the anaerobic digestion sector.
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- Fleuriane Fernandes
- Algal Research Group, Bioscience Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.
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- Algal Research Group, Bioscience Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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- Algal Research Group, Bioscience Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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- Algal Research Group, Bioscience Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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- Algal Research Group, Bioscience Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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- Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8EN, UK
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- Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8EN, UK
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- Algal Research Group, Bioscience Department, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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Egger F, Hülsen T, Tait S, Batstone DJ. Autotrophic sulfide removal by mixed culture purple phototrophic bacteria. WATER RESEARCH 2020; 182:115896. [PMID: 32830101 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Revised: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Current H2S treatment methods for sour gases require considerable amounts of chemicals and energy, or in case of biological treatment, unwanted diluents such as oxygen or nitrogen may be introduced. In order to reduce those requirements, the viability of an anaerobic biological H2S removal process using purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) was investigated in this study. PPB can use sunlight, and centrate as nutrient source, thus potentially reducing energy and chemical requirements. An added benefit is the production of biomass with potential uses, such as single cell protein. An inoculum of PPB enriched from domestic wastewater was grown photoautotrophically with sulfide as the electron donor and inorganic carbon in a mixed culture. Additionally, synthetic medium and centrate as well as high (56 ± 11 Wm-2) and low (27 ± 3 Wm-2) IR irradiation were trialled. Finally, a process model was developed to study biomass specific removal rates and yield. The results showed that a mixed culture of PPB removed sulfide completely in synthetic media (121 ± 9 mg-S.L-1) at a maximum rate of 1.79 ± 0.16 mg-S(Lh)-1 (low irradiance) and 2.9 mg-S(Lh)-1 (high irradiance). The pH increased in both experiments from about 8.5 to 9. Sulfide removal rates using centrate and low irradiance were similar. However Fe and Mn were found to be limiting growth and sulfide removal. In all experiments, Chromatiaceae (purple sulfur bacteria) were most abundant at the end of the experiment, while at the start purple non-sulfur bacteria were most abundant (from the inoculum). Process modelling and experimental work identified the sulfide oxidation to be a multi-step process with accumulation of intermediates. Specific rates were directly dependent on light input, doubling at high irradiance. Sulfide oxidation was estimated at 0.100 ± 0.014 h-1 (0.085 ± 0.012 g-S(g-VS.h)-1) at low irradiance, and the biomass yield at 0.86 ± 0.05 mg-COD.mg-COD-1. This process model enables the virtual evaluation of autotrophic sulfide removal by PPB in a continuous scaled-up process. Overall, the photoautotrophic removal of sulfide seems to be a viable option, especially because of the possibility of using sunlight as an energy source and centrate as a nutrient source.
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- Felix Egger
- Advanced Water Management Centre, Gehrmann Building, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Brisbane, Australia.
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, Gehrmann Building, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, Gehrmann Building, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Brisbane, Australia; Centre for Agricultural Engineering, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 4350, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, Gehrmann Building, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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Production of Microalgal Slow-Release Fertilizer by Valorizing Liquid Agricultural Digestate: Growth Experiments with Tomatoes. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10113890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is a process that is well-known and fast-developing in Europe. AD generates large amounts of digestate, especially in livestock-intensive areas. Digestate has potential environmental issues due to nutrients (such as nitrogen) lixiviation or volatilization. Using liquid digestate as a nutrient source for microalgae growth is considered beneficial because digestate could be valorized and upgraded by the production of an added value product. In this work, microalgal biomass produced using liquid digestate from an agricultural biogas plant was investigated as a slow-release fertilizer in tomatoes. Monoraphidium sp. was first cultivated at different dilutions (1:20, 1:30, 1:50), in indoor laboratory-scale trials. The optimum dilution factor was determined to be 1:50, with a specific growth rate of 0.13 d−1 and a complete nitrogen removal capacity in 25 days of culture. Then, outdoor experiments were conducted in a 110 dm3 vertical, closed photobioreactors (PBRs) in batch and semi-continuous mode with 1:50 diluted liquid digestate. During the batch mode, the microalgae were able to remove almost all NH4+ and 65 (±13) % of PO43−, while the microalgal growth rate reached 0.25 d−1. After the batch mode, the cultures were switched to operate under semi-continuously conditions. The cell densities were maintained at 1.3 × 107 cells mL−1 and a biomass productivity around 38.3 mg TSS L−1 d−1 during three weeks was achieved, where after that it started to decline due to unfavorable weather conditions. Microalgae biomass was further tested as a fertilizer for tomatoes growth, enhancing by 32% plant growth in terms of dry biomass compared with the control trials (without fertilization). Similar performances were achieved in tomato growth using synthetic fertilizer or digestate. Finally, the leaching effect in soils columns without plant was tested and after 25 days, only 7% of N was leached when microalgae were used, against 50% in the case of synthetic fertilizer.
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Chuka-ogwude D, Ogbonna J, Moheimani NR. A review on microalgal culture to treat anaerobic digestate food waste effluent. ALGAL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2020.101841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Microalgae cultivation in thin stillage anaerobic digestate for nutrient recovery and bioproduct production. ALGAL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2020.101867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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González-Camejo J, Montero P, Aparicio S, Ruano MV, Borrás L, Seco A, Barat R. Nitrite inhibition of microalgae induced by the competition between microalgae and nitrifying bacteria. WATER RESEARCH 2020; 172:115499. [PMID: 31978839 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Revised: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Outdoor microalgae cultivation systems treating anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) effluents usually present ammonium oxidising bacteria (AOB) competition with microalgae for ammonium uptake, which can cause nitrite accumulation. In literature, nitrite effects over microalgae have shown controversial results. The present study evaluates the nitrite inhibition role in a microalgae-nitrifying bacteria culture. For this purpose, pilot- and lab-scale assays were carried out. During the continuous outdoor operation of the membrane photobioreactor (MPBR) plant, biomass retention time (BRT) of 2 d favoured AOB activity, which caused nitrite accumulation. This nitrite was confirmed to inhibit microalgae performance. Specifically, continuous 5-d lab-scale assays showed a reduction in the nitrogen recovery efficiency by 32, 42 and 80% when nitrite concentration in the culture accounted for 5, 10 and 20 mg N·L-1, respectively. On the contrary, short 30-min exposure to nitrite showed no significant differences in the photosynthetic activity of microalgae under nitrite concentrations of 0, 5, 10 and 20 mg N·L-1. On the other hand, when the MPBR plant was operated at 2.5-d BRT, the nitrite concentration was reduced to negligible values due to increasing activity of microalgae and nitrite oxidising bacteria (NOB). This allowed obtaining maximum MPBR performance; i.e. nitrogen recovery rate (NRR) and biomass productivity of 19.7 ± 3.3 mg N·L-1·d-1 and 139 ± 35 mg VSS·L-1·d-1, respectively; while nitrification rate (NOxR) reached the lowest value (13.5 ± 3.4 mg N·L-1·d-1). Long BRT of 4.5 d favoured NOB growth, avoiding nitrite inhibition. However, it implied a decrease in microalgae growth and the accumulation of nitrate in the MPBR effluent. Hence, it seems that optimum BRT has to be within the range 2-4.5 d in order to favour microalgae growth with respect to AOB and NOB.
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- J González-Camejo
- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain.
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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González-Camejo J, Barat R, Aguado D, Ferrer J. Continuous 3-year outdoor operation of a flat-panel membrane photobioreactor to treat effluent from an anaerobic membrane bioreactor. WATER RESEARCH 2020; 169:115238. [PMID: 31707179 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A membrane photobioreactor (MPBR) plant was operated continuously for 3 years to evaluate the separate effects of different factors, including: biomass and hydraulic retention times (BRT, HRT), light path (Lp), nitrification rate (NOxR), nutrient loading rates (NLR, PLR) and others. The overall effect of all these parameters which influence MPBR performance had not previously been assessed. The multivariate projection approach chosen for this study provided a good description of the collected data and facilitated their visualisation and interpretation. Forty variables used to control and assess MPBR performance were evaluated during three years of continuous outdoor operation by means of principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS) analysis. The PCA identified the photobioreactor (PBR) light path as the factor with the largest influence on data variability. Other important factors were: nitrogen and phosphorus recovery rates (NRR, PRR), biomass productivity (BP), optical density of 680 nm (OD680), ammonium and phosphorus effluent concentration (NH4, P), HRT, BRT, air flow rate (Fair) and nitrogen and phosphorus loading rates (NLR and PLR). The MPBR performance could be adequately estimated by a PLS model based on all the recorded variables, but this estimation worsened appreciably when only the controlled variables (Lp, Fair, HRT and BRT) were used as predictors, which underlines the importance of the non-controlled variables on MPBR performance. The microalgae cultivation process could thus only be partially controlled by the design and operating variables. A high nitrification rate was found to be inadvisable, since it showed an inverse correlation with NRR. In this respect, temperature and microalgae biomass concentration appeared to be the main factors to mitigate nitrifying bacteria activity.
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- J González-Camejo
- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient, IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain.
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- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient, IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient, IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA, Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient, IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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Yang J, Shi W, Fang F, Guo J, Lu L, Xiao Y, Jiang X. Exploring the feasibility of sewage treatment by algal–bacterial consortia. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2020; 40:169-179. [DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2019.1709796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Jixiang Yang
- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, China
- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, China
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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Lee YJ, Lei Z. Microalgal-bacterial aggregates for wastewater treatment: A mini-review. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biteb.2019.100199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Beyl T, Louw TM, Pott RWM. Cyanobacterial Growth in Minimally Amended Anaerobic Digestion Effluent and Flue-Gas. Microorganisms 2019; 7:microorganisms7100428. [PMID: 31600960 PMCID: PMC6843200 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms7100428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Revised: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an important industrial process, particularly in a biorefinery approach. The liquid effluent and carbon dioxide in the off-gas, can be used to produce high-value products through the cultivation of cyanobacteria. Growth on AD effluent is often limited due to substrate limitation or inhibitory compounds. This study demonstrates the successful cultivation of Synechococcus on minimally amended AD effluent, supplemented with MgSO4 and diluted with seawater. An 8 L airlift reactor illustrated growth in a pilot scale setup. Higher biomass yields were observed for cyanobacteria grown in diluted AD effluent compared to minimal medium, with 60% total nitrogen removal in the effluent. It was demonstrated that controlling the pH, increasing dissolved salt concentrations and adding MgSO4 to the effluent allowed for the successful cultivation of the cyanobacterium, circumventing the addition of clean water for effluent dilution. This could ultimately increase the feasibility of anaerobic digestion-microalgae integrated biorefineries.
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- Talita Beyl
- Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag XI, MATIELAND 7602, South Africa.
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- Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag XI, MATIELAND 7602, South Africa.
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- Department of Process Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag XI, MATIELAND 7602, South Africa.
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González-Camejo J, Aparicio S, Ruano MV, Borrás L, Barat R, Ferrer J. Effect of ambient temperature variations on an indigenous microalgae-nitrifying bacteria culture dominated by Chlorella. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 290:121788. [PMID: 31326649 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.121788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Revised: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Two outdoor photobioreactors were operated to evaluate the effect of variable ambient temperature on an indigenous microalgae-nitrifying bacteria culture dominated by Chlorella. Four experiments were carried out in different seasons, maintaining the temperature-controlled PBR at around 25 °C (by either heating or cooling), while the temperature in the non-temperature-controlled PBR was allowed to vary with the ambient conditions. Temperatures in the range of 15-30 °C had no significant effect on the microalgae cultivation performance. However, when the temperature rose to 30-35 °C microalgae viability was significantly reduced. Sudden temperature rises triggered AOB growth in the indigenous microalgae culture, which worsened microalgae performance, especially when AOB activity made the system ammonium-limited. Microalgae activity could be recovered after a short temperature peak over 30 °C once the temperature dropped, but stopped when the temperature was maintained around 28-30 °C for several days.
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- J González-Camejo
- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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González-Camejo J, Jiménez-Benítez A, Ruano MV, Robles A, Barat R, Ferrer J. Optimising an outdoor membrane photobioreactor for tertiary sewage treatment. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 245:76-85. [PMID: 31150912 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The operation of an outdoor membrane photobioreactor plant which treated the effluent of an anaerobic membrane bioreactor was optimised. Biomass retention times of 4.5, 6, and 9 days were tested. At a biomass retention time of 4.5 days, maximum nitrogen recovery rate:light irradiance ratios, photosynthetic efficiencies and carbon biofixations of 51.7 ± 14.3 mg N·mol-1, 4.4 ± 1.6% and 0.50 ± 0.05 kg CO2·m3influent, respectively, were attained. Minimum membrane fouling rates were achieved when operating at the shortest biomass retention time because of the lower solid concentration and the negligible amount of cyanobacteria and protozoa. Hydraulic retention times of 3.5, 2, and 1.5 days were tested at the optimum biomass retention times of 4.5 days under non-nutrient limited conditions, showing no significant differences in the nutrient recovery rates, photosynthetic efficiencies and membrane fouling rates. However, nitrogen recovery rate:light irradiance ratios and photosynthetic efficiency significantly decreased when hydraulic retention time was further shortened to 1 day, probably due to a rise in the substrate turbidity which reduced the light availability in the culture. Optimal carbon biofixations and theoretical energy recoveries from the biomass were obtained at hydraulic retention time of 3.5 days, which accounted for 0.55 ± 0.05 kg CO2·m-3influent and 0.443 ± 0.103 kWh·m-3influent, respectively.
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- J González-Camejo
- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain.
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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Luo L, Ren H, Pei X, Xie G, Xing D, Dai Y, Ren N, Liu B. Simultaneous nutrition removal and high-efficiency biomass and lipid accumulation by microalgae using anaerobic digested effluent from cattle manure combined with municipal wastewater. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2019; 12:218. [PMID: 31528206 PMCID: PMC6739908 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-019-1553-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Microalgae as a viable biodiesel feedstock show great potential to approach the challenges of energy shortage and environment pollution, but their economic feasibility was seriously hampered by high production cost. Thus, it is in urgent need to reduce the cost of cultivation and improve the biomass and lipid production of microalgae. In this work, anaerobic digestion effluent from cattle manure combined with municipal wastewater was used as a cost-effective medium for cultivating microalgae and expected to obtain high biomass. The pretreatment of anaerobic digested effluent containing dilution rate, sterilization and nutrient optimization was investigated. Then, initial pH and light intensity for algal growth, lipid production and wastewater purification were optimized in this study. RESULTS Scenedesmus sp. could grow rapidly in 10% anaerobic digestion effluent from cattle manure combined with secondary sedimentation tank effluent without sterilization. Optimum nutrient additives for higher biomass were as follows: glucose 10 g/L, NaNO3 0.3 g/L, K2HPO4·3H2O 0.01 g/L, MgSO4·7H2O 0.075 g/L and trace element A5 solution 1 mL/L. Biomass of 4.65 g/L and lipid productivity of 81.90 mg/L/day were achieved during 7-day cultivation accompanying over 90% of COD, NO3 --N, NH4 +-N, and 79-88% of PO4 3--P removal with optimized initial pH of 7.0 and light intensity of 5000 l×. The FAME profile in ADEC growth medium consisted in saturated (39.48%) and monounsaturated (60.52%) fatty acids with the 16- to 18-chain-length fatty acids constituting over 98% of total FAME. CONCLUSIONS This study proves the potential of anaerobic digested effluent combined with municipal wastewater for microalgae culture, and provides an effective avenue for simultaneous microalgal lipid production and treatment of two kinds of wastewater.
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- Lin Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150090 China
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Meng F, Xi L, Liu D, Huang W, Lei Z, Zhang Z, Huang W. Effects of light intensity on oxygen distribution, lipid production and biological community of algal-bacterial granules in photo-sequencing batch reactors. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 272:473-481. [PMID: 30390540 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.10.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Revised: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The effects of light intensity (0-225 µmol m-2 s-1) on oxygen distribution, lipid production and biological community structure of algal-bacterial granules were investigated in six identical photo-sequencing batch reactors (with a dark/light cycle of 12 h/12 h). Typically green algal-bacterial granules could be developed at a light intensity of ≥135 µmol m-2 s-1. The lipid content was significantly increased under higher light intensity, while the percentage of saturated fatty acid methyl esters was remarkably decreased. Results showed that light intensity ≥90 µmol m-2 s-1 yielded enough O2 production from algae, creating aerobic/anoxic zone (0.3-0.6 mg-O2/L) in the core of granules and thus efficient algal-bacterial symbiosis system. Enhanced nitrogen and phosphorus removals were achieved in the reactors with stronger light illumination, probably attributable to the enrichment of ammonia oxidizing bacteria (Comamonadaceae and Nitrosomonadaceae) and algae (Navicula and Stigeoclonium). Illuminance ≥180 µmol m-2 s-1 was found to be unfavorable for Nitrospiraceae.
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- Fansheng Meng
- Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Renmin Road, Haikou 570228, China
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.
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Sanchis-Perucho P, Duran F, Barat R, Pachés M, Aguado D. Microalgae population dynamics growth with AnMBR effluent: effect of light and phosphorus concentration. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2018; 77:2566-2577. [PMID: 29944122 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2018.207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of light intensity and phosphorus concentration on biomass growth and nutrient removal in a microalgae culture and their effect on their competition. The photobioreactor was continuously fed with the effluent from an anaerobic membrane bioreactor pilot plant treating real wastewater. Four experimental periods were carried out at different light intensities (36 and 52 μmol s-1 m-2) and phosphorus concentrations (around 6 and 15 mgP L-1). Four green algae - Scenedesmus, Chlorella, Monoraphidium and Chlamydomonas- and cyanobacterium were detected and quantified along whole experimental period. Chlorella was the dominant species when light intensity was at the lower level tested, and was competitively displaced by a mixed culture of Scenedesmus and Monoraphidium when light was increased. When phosphorus concentration in the photobioreactor was raised up to 15 mgP L-1, a growth of cyanobacterium became the dominant species in the culture. The highest nutrient removal efficiency (around 58.4 ± 15.8% and 96.1 ± 16.5% of nitrogen and phosphorus, respectively) was achieved at 52 μmol s-1 m-2 of light intensity and 6.02 mgP L-1 of phosphorus concentration, reaching about 674 ± 86 mg L-1 of volatile suspended solids. The results obtained reveal how the light intensity supplied and the phosphorus concentration available are relevant operational factors that determine the microalgae species that is able to predominate in a culture. Moreover, changes in microalgae predominance can be induced by changes in the growth medium produced by the own predominant species.
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- P Sanchis-Perucho
- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain E-mail:
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain E-mail:
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain E-mail:
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain E-mail:
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- CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain E-mail:
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Zhang L, Zhang J, Loh KC. Activated carbon enhanced anaerobic digestion of food waste - Laboratory-scale and Pilot-scale operation. WASTE MANAGEMENT (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2018; 75:270-279. [PMID: 29456123 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2018.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2017] [Revised: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Effects of activated carbon (AC) supplementation on anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste were elucidated in lab- and pilot-scales. Lab-scale AD was performed in 1 L and 8 L digesters, while pilot-scale AD was conducted in a 1000 L digester. Based on the optimal dose of 15 g AC per working volume derived from the 1 L digester, for the same AC dosage in the 8 L digester, an improved operation stability coupled with a higher methane yield was achieved even when digesters without AC supplementation failed after 59 days due to accumulation of substantial organic intermediates. At the same time, color removal from the liquid phase of the digestate was dramatically enhanced and the particle size of the digestate solids was increased by 53% through AC supplementation after running for 59 days. Pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene showed the abundance of predominant phyla Firmicutes, Elusimicrobia and Proteobacteria selectively enhanced by 1.7-fold, 2.9-fold and 2.1-fold, respectively. Pilot-scale digester without AC gave an average methane yield of 0.466 L⋅(gVS)-1⋅d-1 at a composition of 53-61% v/v methane. With AC augmentation, an increase of 41% in methane yield was achieved in the 1000 L digester under optimal organic loading rate (1.6 g VSFW·L-1·d-1).
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- Le Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, S117576, Singapore
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- NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 1 Create Way, Create Tower #15-02, S138602, Singapore
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, S117576, Singapore.
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Pei H, Yang Z, Nie C, Hou Q, Zhang L, Wang Y, Zhang S. Using a tubular photosynthetic microbial fuel cell to treat anaerobically digested effluent from kitchen waste: Mechanisms of organics and ammonium removal. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 256:11-16. [PMID: 29427862 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.01.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2017] [Revised: 01/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Anaerobically digested effluent from kitchen waste (ADE-KW) was used herein as the substrate of a tubular photosynthetic microbial fuel cell (PMFC) for power production, and also, after being diluted, as a medium for cultivation of algae in the cathodic chamber. Adding 3 mg/L phosphorus to the catholyte could efficiently enhance the algal growth and the PMFC performance. About 0.94 g/L algal biomass and 0.57 kWh/m3-ADE-KW bioelectricity were obtained from the PMFC. Soluble microbial byproduct-like material and aromatic proteins were the dominant organics in the ADE-KW, which were readily degradable in the system. About 79% of the 1550 mg/L ammonium in the anolyte transferred to the catholyte through the cation exchange membrane. The ammonium was removed mainly as electron acceptors at the cathode after being oxidized by oxygen, whereas algal assimilation only account for about 14.6% of the overall nitrogen.
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- Haiyan Pei
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda Nan Road, Jinan 250100, China; Shandong Provincial Engineering Centre on Environmental Science and Technology, No. 17923 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250061, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda Nan Road, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda Nan Road, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda Nan Road, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda Nan Road, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda Nan Road, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda Nan Road, Jinan 250100, China
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