| Title | Enhancing the environmental and economic sustainability of heterotrophic microalgae cultivation: Kinetic modelling and screening of alternative carbon sources |
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| ID_Doc | 22779 |
| Authors | Rossi, S; Carecci, D; Proietti, L; Parati, K; Ficara, E |
| Title | Enhancing the environmental and economic sustainability of heterotrophic microalgae cultivation: Kinetic modelling and screening of alternative carbon sources |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | Heterotrophic microalgae cultivation has been suggested to reduce conventional photo-autotrophic microalgal biomass production costs. In heterotrophic cultivation, the most relevant operational costs are constituted by the supply of pure substrates used as carbon source (e.g., glucose), and the high energy request for culture aeration. In addition, suboptimal conditions of temperature and pH reduce the algal productivity, further increasing production costs. In this work, an attempt was made to define more sustainable and cost-effective strategies for the heterotrophic cultivation of Chlorellaceae and Scenedesmaceae. Several by-products from a local confectionery industry were thus screened as alternative carbon sources. Manufacturing residues from peppermint and liquorice candies production allowed to achieve comparable maximum growth rates (1.44 d-1), biomass yields (0.33 g COD & sdot;g COD-1) and biomass productivities (370 mg COD & sdot;L-1 & sdot;d(-1)) as those achieved using glucose. A preliminary economic evaluation showed that the operational costs could be lowered of up to 85.6% by substituting glucose with the selected industrial by-products. As for fermentation conditions, high growth rates could be maintained at relatively low dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations, and in a large range of temperature and pH values. In addition, optimal temperatures (37.0 - 37.2(degrees)C), pH values (6.8 - 7.4), and DO concentrations (> 0.5 - 1 mg O-2 & sdot;L-1) were identified. On the overall, the study demonstrated the possibility of achieving the reduction of operational costs for heterotrophic microalgae cultivation, while implementing circular economy principles in the framework of resource recovery during the bioremediation of organic waste. |
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2024.100632 |
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