Advances in microalgal research for valorization of industrial wastewater

Rahulkumar Maurya, Xinyu Zhu, Borja Valverde-Pérez, Boda Ravi Kiran, Thiyam General, Suvigya Sharma, Anil Kumar Sharma, Marianne Thomsen, S. Venkata Mohan, Kaustubha Mohanty*, Irini Angelidaki

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Abstract

This review article focuses on recent updates on remediation of industrial wastewater (IWW) through microalgae cultivation. These include how adding additional supplements of nutrient to some specific IWWs lacking adequate nutrients improving the microalgae growth and remediation simultaneously. Various pretreatments strategy recently employed for IWWs treatment other than dealing with microalgae was discussed. Various nutrient-rich IWW could be utilized directly with additional dilution, supplement of nutrients and without any pretreatment. Recent advances in various approaches and new tools used for cultivation of microalgae on IWW such as two-step cultivation, pre-acclimatization, novel microalgal-bioelectrical systems, integrated catalytic intense pulse-light process, sequencing batch reactor, use of old stabilized algal-bacterial consortium, immobilized microalgae cells, microalgal bacterial membrane photobioreactor, low-intensity magnetic field, BIO_ALGAE simulation tool, etc. are discussed. In addition, biorefinery of microalgal biomass grown on IWW and its end-use applications are reviewed.
Original languageEnglish
Article number126128
JournalBioresource Technology
Volume343
Number of pages13
ISSN0960-8524
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Industrial wastewater
  • Microalgae
  • Biomass
  • Biorefinery
  • Biofuel

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