the aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of microalgae spirulina platensis and chlorella vulgaris to remove nitrate and phosphate in aqueous solutions. spirulina platensis and chlorella vulgar is microalgae was collected in 1000 ml of municipal water and kno3, k2hpo4 was added as sources of nitrate and phosphate in three different concentrations (0.25, 0.35 and 0.45g/l). during the gro...

Mathematical models for wastewater treatment ponds and photobioreactors are increasing in popularity for design of new systems and for improving understanding of the complex biokinetic processes occurring inside. However, models in these systems are still not a common practice because the complex bioprocesses and hydrodynamics make them very difficult to translate into accurate mathematic descr...

Three strains of the freshwater microalgae used for wastewater treatment, Chlorella vulgaris and Chlorella sorokiniana co-immobilized separately in alginate beads with the microalgae-growth-promoting bacterium Azospirillum brasilense Cd, resulted in significant changes in microalgal-population size, cell size, cell cytology, pigment, lipid content, and the variety of fatty acids produced in com...

Coccomyxa acidophila is an extremophile eukaryotic microalga isolated from the Tinto River mining area in Huelva, Spain. Coccomyxa acidophila accumulates relevant amounts of β-carotene and lutein, well-known carotenoids with many biotechnological applications, especially in food and health-related industries. The acidic culture medium (pH < 2.5) that prevents outdoor cultivation from non-desire...

Algae are sustainable sources of biomass for fuel, food, feed and essential for their growth are light, CO2, and inorganic nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous. The aim of our study was to explore the effect of different carbon sources on biomass accumulation in microalgae Chlorella vulgaris and its ability to remove N and P compounds during its cultivation in aquaculture wastewater. Microal...

In synthetic wastewater, growth and phosphorus absorption by two species of microalgae, Chlorella sorokiniana and Chlorella vulgaris, and in domestic wastewater by C. sorokiniana significantly enhanced after a starvation period of 3 days in saline solution, combined with co-immobilization with the microalgae growth-promoting bacterium (MGPB) Azospirillum brasilense Cd in alginate beads. Starv i...

The effective concentrations of copper on the inhibition of the growth of Scenedesmus obliquus, Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Closterium lunula at 96 h (96 h EC50) were determined to be 50, 68 and 200 microg/l, respectively. The low initial bioaccumulation of Cu by C. lunula was found to be responsible for its tolerance to Cu. The amount of Cu accumulated by all three microalgae reached the maximum...

Microalgae have increasingly gained research interest as a source of lipids for biodiesel production. The wet way processing of harvested microalgae was suggested and evaluated with respect to the possible environmental impacts and production costs. This study is focused on the three key steps of the suggested process: flocculation, water recycling, and extraction of lipids. Microalgae strains ...

In the current literature, the life cycle, technoeconomic, and resource assessments of microalgae-based biofuel production systems have relied on growth models extrapolated from laboratory-scale data, leading to a large uncertainty in results. This type of simplistic growth modeling overestimates productivity potential and fails to incorporate biological effects, geographical location, or culti...

This study experimentally demonstrated a feed-forward inversion control scheme for maintaining an optimum incident irradiance on photobioreactors (PBRs) during batch cultivation. A data-based modelfree optimization using quadratic fit was utilized to rapidly estimate the optimum average fluence rate set point value that rendered maximum microalgae growth rate. Then, the feed-forward inversion c...