| Title | Redefining the role of microalgae in industrial wastewater remediation |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 24623 |
| Authors | Mondal, S; Bera, S; Mishra, R; Roy, S |
| Title | Redefining the role of microalgae in industrial wastewater remediation |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | The use of microalgae for wastewater treatment is neither very new, nor a novel concept, but is understood to play a defining role in all industrial, agricultural and municipal wastewater disposal and treatment. The major advantage of phycoremediation stems from the fact that microalgae strains are capable of withstanding extremely harsh environments, which present-day industrial and municipal wastes tend to possess. The changing global outlook towards a circular bio-economy relying more on resource diversification has also led the traditional wastewater treatment processes to restructure to a low-carbon, integrated bio-refinery concept, to accommodate several waste streams. It has been well accepted among researchers regarding microalgal wastewater remediation that the meteoric rise in the interest for this area of application can be understood from the altered face of treatment. Alternatively, since the major bottlenecks of simultaneous effective nutrient assimilation and high microalgae population have been mitigated to a certain extent, microalgal wastewater treatment is now a serious contender to conventional wastewater treatment. The development in comprehensively and elaboratively characterizing effective microalgal strains for sustainable remediation has been focused, besides drawing comparisons with traditional tertiary wastewater treatment approaches. It deals more with the capability of microalgal strains to work on the toxic waste products from industrial applications in addition to assimilating non-optimum nutrient bases and conditions. Henceforth, the article dwells on the prospect of using the microalgal biomass generated to produce biofuels, bio-fertilizers, and other bio-products integral to the biorefinery concept. An important part of this work is therefore to understand the importance of microalgae in the circular bio-economy strategy with the future outlook microalgae-based waste-water remediation holds for the sustainable energy portfolio. |
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nexus.2022.100088 |
Similar Articles
| ID | Score | Article |
|---|---|---|
25272
|
Nishshanka, GKSH; Thevarajah, B; Nimarshana, PHV; Prajapati, SK; Ariyadasa, TU Real-time integration of microalgae-based bioremediation in conventional wastewater treatment plants: Current status and prospects(2023) | |
| 18730
|
Geremia, E; Ripa, M; Catone, CM; Ulgiati, S A Review about Microalgae Wastewater Treatment for Bioremediation and Biomass Production-A New Challenge for Europe(2021)Environments, 8.0, 12 | |
| 25507
|
You, N; Deng, SH; Wang, CQ; Ngo, HH; Wang, XW; Yu, HB; Tang, L; Han, J Review and Opinions on the Research, Development and Application of Microalgae Culture Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastewater(2023)Water, 15, 6 | |
| 10361
|
Lakshmikandan, M; Yang, F; Ye, SS; Liu, YK; Chang, C; Yang, YY; Wen, HY; Ameen, F; Li, M Enhancing nutrient removal of agricultural and agro-industrial wastewater utilizing symbiotic microalgal co-cultivation systems to optimize sustainable resource recovery(2024) | |
| 26076
|
Al-Jabri, H; Das, P; Khan, S; Thaher, M; AbdulQuadir, M Treatment of Wastewaters by Microalgae and the Potential Applications of the Produced Biomass-A Review(2021)Water, 13, 1 | |
| 12761
|
Catone, CM; Ripa, M; Geremia, E; Ulgiati, S Bio-products from algae-based biorefinery on wastewater: A review(2021) | |
| 3501
|
Vaz, SA; Badenes, SM; Pinheiro, HM; Martins, RC Recent reports on domestic wastewater treatment using microalgae cultivation: Towards a circular economy(2023) | |
| 10004
|
Goswami, RK; Agrawal, K; Verma, P Multifaceted Role of Microalgae for Municipal Wastewater Treatment: A Futuristic Outlook toward Wastewater Management(2022) | |
| 8093
|
Dammak, I; Fersi, M; Hachicha, R; Abdelkafi, S Current Insights into Growing Microalgae for Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Biomass Generation(2023)Resources-Basel, 12, 10 | |
| 24178
|
Tuyen, NV; Limjuco, LA; Lee, K; Dang, NM Integrated Applications of Microalgae to Wastewater Treatment and Biorefinery: Recent Advances and Opportunities(2022)Applied Chemistry For Engineering, 33, 3 |