TY - JOUR
T1 - Wastewater based microalgal biorefinery for bioenergy production
T2 - Progress and challenges
AU - Bhatia, Shashi Kant
AU - Mehariya, Sanjeet
AU - Bhatia, Ravi Kant
AU - Kumar, Manu
AU - Pugazhendhi, Arivalagan
AU - Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar
AU - Atabani, A. E.
AU - Kumar, Gopalakrishnan
AU - Kim, Wooseong
AU - Seo, Seung Oh
AU - Yang, Yung Hun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/1/10
Y1 - 2021/1/10
N2 - Treatment of industrial and domestic wastewater is very important to protect downstream users from health risks and meet the freshwater demand of the ever-increasing world population. Different types of wastewater (textile, dairy, pharmaceutical, swine, municipal, etc.) vary in composition and require different treatment strategies. Wastewater management and treatment is an expensive process; hence, it is important to integrate relevant technology into this process to make it more feasible and cost-effective. Wastewater treatment using microalgae-based technology could be a global solution for resource recovery from wastewater and to provide affordable feedstock for bioenergy (biodiesel, biohydrogen, bio-alcohol, methane, and bioelectricity) production. Various microalgal cultivation systems (open or closed photobioreactors), turf scrubber, and hybrid systems have been developed. Although many algal biomass harvesting methods (physical, chemical, biological, and electromagnetic) have been reported, it is still an expensive process. In this review article, resource recovery from wastewater using algal cultivation, biomass harvesting, and various technologies applied in converting algal biomass into bioenergy, along with the various challenges that are encountered are discussed in brief.
AB - Treatment of industrial and domestic wastewater is very important to protect downstream users from health risks and meet the freshwater demand of the ever-increasing world population. Different types of wastewater (textile, dairy, pharmaceutical, swine, municipal, etc.) vary in composition and require different treatment strategies. Wastewater management and treatment is an expensive process; hence, it is important to integrate relevant technology into this process to make it more feasible and cost-effective. Wastewater treatment using microalgae-based technology could be a global solution for resource recovery from wastewater and to provide affordable feedstock for bioenergy (biodiesel, biohydrogen, bio-alcohol, methane, and bioelectricity) production. Various microalgal cultivation systems (open or closed photobioreactors), turf scrubber, and hybrid systems have been developed. Although many algal biomass harvesting methods (physical, chemical, biological, and electromagnetic) have been reported, it is still an expensive process. In this review article, resource recovery from wastewater using algal cultivation, biomass harvesting, and various technologies applied in converting algal biomass into bioenergy, along with the various challenges that are encountered are discussed in brief.
KW - Bioenergy
KW - Feedstock
KW - Management
KW - Resource recovery
KW - Treatment
KW - Wastewater
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090128462&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141599
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141599
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32890799
AN - SCOPUS:85090128462
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 751
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
M1 - 141599
ER -
