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Adriana Machado, Hugo Pereira, Margarida Costa, Tamára Santos, Bernardo Carvalho, Maria Soares, Pedro Quelhas, Joana T. Silva, Mafalda Trovão, Ana Barros, João Varela, António A. Vicente and Joana Silva
Microalgal biomass has gained increasing attention in the last decade for various biotechnological applications, including human nutrition. Certified organic products are currently a growing niche market in which the food industry has shown great interes...
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María Rosa Villalba, Rosa Cervera and Javier Sánchez
The accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere carries with it severe consequences, and cities are responsible for 70% of CO2 emissions. With this initiative, we address how innovative green architecture can contribute to removing CO2 from the urban area by i...
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Martin Olofsson, Teresa Lamela, Emmelie Nilsson, Jean Pascal Bergé, Victória del Pino, Pauliina Uronen and Catherine Legrand
While focus in oil-producing microalgae is normally on nutrient deficiency, we addressed the seasonal variations of lipid content and composition in large-scale cultivation. Lipid content, fatty acid profiles and mono- di- and triglycerides (MAGs, DAGs, ...
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Fernando Pagels, Ana Arias, A. Catarina Guedes, António A. Vicente, Vitor Vasconcelos and Maria Teresa Moreira
Cyanobacteria have long attracted market interest as a source of natural compounds such as pigments with proven bioactivity (carotenoid and phycobiliproteins). The cultivation and extraction processes for such compounds have been developed at different l...
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Santiago Barreiro-Vescovo, Elena Barbera, Alberto Bertucco and Eleonora Sforza
In this study, the feasibility of integrating microalgae cultivation in a biogas production process that treats the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) was investigated. In particular, the biomass growth performances in the liquid fraction ...
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Abraham Efraim Rodríguez-Mata, Ricardo Luna, Jose Ricardo Pérez-Correa, Alejandro Gonzalez-Huitrón, Rafael Castro-Linares and Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud
This paper proposes a fractional-order sliding mode controller (FOSMC) for the robust control of a nonlinear process subjected to unknown parametric disturbances. The controller aims to ensure optimal growth in photobioreactors of native microalgae invol...
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Georgios Manthos, Eleni Koutra, Savvas Giannis Mastropetros, Dimitris Zagklis and Michael Kornaros
The development of kinetic models aims at predicting the behavior of a system or analyzing the underlying mechanisms. This process is essential for understanding microalgal growth and optimizing culture conditions. In the case of microalgal cultivation i...
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Gareth Griffiths, Abul Kalam Hossain, Vikas Sharma and Ganesh Duraisamy
A number of technological challenges need to be overcome if algae are to be utilized for commercial fuel production. Current economic assessment is largely based on laboratory scale up or commercial systems geared to the production of high value products...
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Henrique J. O. Pinho and Dina M. R. Mateus
Considering the increasing pressure on freshwater resources due to the constant increase in water consumption and insufficient wastewater control and treatment, recovering wastewater is a path to overcoming water scarcity. The present work describes the ...
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Pavel Gotovtsev
There are a number of significant changes taking place in modern city development and most of them are based on the number of recent technological progress. This paper provides a review and analysis of recent approaches of biotechnology that can find a p...
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Douglas Aitken and Blanca Antizar-Ladislao
Research investigating the potential of producing biofuels from algae has been enjoying a recent revival due to heightened oil prices, uncertain fossil fuel sources and legislative targets aimed at reducing our contribution to climate change. If the conc...
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