Cultivation of microalgae in wastewater: A review

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10.2991/icreet-16.2017.52How to use a DOI?

Keywords

microalgae; cultivation; wastewater; biodiesel

Abstract

Microalgae have great potential as the feedstock of renewable energy. Nevertheless, the high cost of microalgae cultivation hinders its development economically, so inexpensive cultural mediums are supposed to be found for the large-scale application of microalgae. Wastewater contains large amount of organic and inorganic compounds, which provides nutrition for the cell growth and lipid accumulation of microalgae. Here we will review the systems of microalgae cultivation and utilize wastewater as a feedstock for biodiesel production. It illustrates that the integration of microalgae cultivation and wastewater treatment could improve water quality and accumulate lipid simultaneously.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiani Zhu
AU  - Jian Du
AU  - Xuanyuan Pei
AU  - Xiaolei Qin
AU  - Bingfeng Liu
PY  - 2017/03
DA  - 2017/03
TI  - Cultivation of microalgae in wastewater: A review
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology (ICREET 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 305
EP  - 310
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icreet-16.2017.52
DO  - 10.2991/icreet-16.2017.52
ID  - Zhu2017/03
ER  -