Microalgae derived biomass and bioenergy production enhancement through biogas purification and wastewater treatment

Multi-objective optimization of building-integrated microalgae photobioreactors for energy and daylighting performance

“…The building sector is responsible for more than one-third of the global total energy consumption and about 40% of CO 2 emissions [1], and various technologies, such as solar facades [2][3][4], climate-adaptive building shells [5], and algae façades [6,7], have been applied to reduce the energy demand and carbon footprint of buildings. The algae façade as a green façade system, as a recently-emerged technology, has received significant attention in the field of high-performance buildings [8], and integrating microalgae culture systems into buildings is believed to offer advantages such as a reduced ecological footprint [8][9][10], bio-fuel production [11][12][13][14][15][16], decreased energy consumption in both building and bioreactor [6,17,18], adaptable shading [19,20], acoustical insulation, and economic and environmental viability [8,9]. The symbiosis between the microalgae culture system and the building can also be beneficial for medical purposes [21], human food [22] and animal feed production [23], wastewater treatment [24,25], and production of bio-products [26] as well as energy [27].…”

Microalgae‐Derived Green Diesel

“…1 were not included in this paper. However, microalgae biomass production results with the system could be assessed in several previously published studies by the authors 15–18.…”

“…The cultivation medium was composed of biodigested swine manure which is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon 15. The biomass was obtained following the protocol described by Selesu et al 16, after 15 days of cultivation since the maximum growth rate was reached at that cultivation time.…”

Phycoremediation of aquaculture wastewater and algal lipid extraction for fuel conversion

“…have experimented in fish seaweed aquaculture waste for bioremediation that have removed high concentration of ammonia and phosphorous within 30-40% nutrient removal converting into less polluting [30]. Whereas for microalgae Tetradesmus obliquus has removed 99.3% of ammonia and 99.2% of phosphorous concentration from swine manure wastewater [31]. In Table 2, various algal species cultivated in different types of aquaculture wastewater are shown.…”