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Hope Baloyi, Gary Dugmore
For this study, waste coal fines were treated with live microalgae slurry at varying biomass ratios to form coal-microalgae blends. The parent samples and the coal-microalgae blends were analysed for their proximate, ultimate and calorific values. Thermo...
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Ana Eusébio, Carla A. Santos and Isabel Paula Marques
Microalga Chlorella protothecoides materials were assessed as substrates for anaerobic digestion (AD) aiming at the simultaneous production of biogas/methane and pigments: whole autotrophic (AA) and heterotrophic algae (H); extracted heterotrophic microa...
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Samuel Jannel, Yanis Caro, Marc Bermudes and Thomas Petit
Astaxanthin shows many biological activities. It has acquired a high economic potential and its current market is dominated by its synthetic form. However, due to the increase of the health and environmental concerns from consumers, natural forms are now...
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Zhiyong Liu, Chenfeng Liu, Yuyong Hou, Shulin Chen, Dongguang Xiao, Juankun Zhang and Fangjian Chen
Microalgae have been considered as a promising biomass for biofuel production, but freshwater resource consumption during the scaled-up cultivation are still a challenge. Obtaining robust marine strains capable of producing triacylglycerols and high valu...
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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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Simone Merlo, Xavier Gabarrell Durany, Angela Pedroso Tonon and Sergio Rossi
The burning of fossil fuels is an unsustainable activity, which is leading to an increase in greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions and related global warming. Among sustainable energy sources, microalgae represent a promising alternative to fossil fuel and c...
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Sarat Chandra Togarcheti and Ramesh Babu Padamati
The present study aims at comparing the life cycle environmental impacts of polyunsaturated fatty acids production (PUFA) from microalgae and farmed fish. PUFA production from microalgae cultivated via heterotrophy and photoautotrophy was assessed and co...
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Zhia Lerc Poh
Pág. 41
Microalgae have recently attracted global attention for its variety of valuable compounds production, and potential as energy crop. However, high microalgae biomass productivity with high lipid content are usually difficult to achieve simultaneously. In ...
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Vitus O. Ejesieme, Nicole Vorster, Juan Riaza, Gary Dugmore, Ben Zeelie
Combustion of South African discard ultra-fine coal (i.e. coal dust), charcoal, microalgae biomass, and composites of the three under air were studied. The study involves to find out the effect of Scenedesmus microalgae biomass on the comprehensive combu...
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Carla Escapa, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Teresa Neuparth, Tiago Torres, Miguel M. Santos and Marta Otero
In this work, zebrafish embryo bioassays were performed to assess the efficiency of microalgae in the removal of acetaminophen from water. Chlorella sorokiniana (CS), Chlorella vulgaris (CV) and Scenedesmus obliquus (SO) were the strains used for water t...
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John A. Raven and John Beardall
Defining the physiological traits that characterise phytoplankton involves comparison with related organisms in benthic habitats. Comparison of survival time in darkness under natural conditions requires more information. Gas vesicles and flagella as mec...
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Dagon Manoel Ribeiro, Alessandro Minillo, Cinthia Aparecida de Andrade Silva, Gustavo Graciano Fonseca (Author)
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Microalga is one of the main sources of biomasses for the production of biofuels in the 21st century. Many labs and industries around the world are seeking for more productive strains and better cultivation models. The aim of this work was to evalu...
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Dagon Manoel Ribeiro, Alessandro Minillo, Cinthia Aparecida de Andrade Silva, Gustavo Graciano Fonseca
Pág. e37723
Microalga is one of the main sources of biomasses for the production of biofuels in the 21st century. Many labs and industries around the world are seeking for more productive strains and better cultivation models. The aim of this work was to evalu...
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Pei Han, Qian Lu, Liangliang Fan and Wenguang Zhou
Traditional aquaculture provides food for humans, but produces a large amount of wastewater, threatening global sustainability. The antibiotics abuse and the water replacement or treatment causes safety problems and increases the aquaculture cost. To ove...
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Paraskevi Psachoulia, Christos Chatzidoukas and Petros Samaras
Microalgae offer a promising solution for efficiently treating high-nitrogen wastewater and recovering valuable nutrients. To optimize microalgae growth and nutrient assimilation, case-dependent studies are essential to demonstrate the process?s potentia...
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Juan Francisco Mora-Sánchez, Josep Ribes, Josué González-Camejo, Aurora Seco and María Victoria Ruano
This research lays a foundation for optimised membrane photobioreactor performance and introduces novel control parameters crucial for advancing microalgae cultivation techniques and promoting environmental sustainability. Particularly, this study presen...
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Eliza Gabriela Brettfeld, Daria Gabriela Popa, Tanase Dobre, Corina Ioana Moga, Diana Constantinescu-Aruxandei and Florin Oancea
In this study, we investigated the use of functionalized deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as a medium for CO2 capture integrated with CO2 desorption and biofixation in microalgal culture, as an approach for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). T...
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Sungmo Kang, Hyeon Ho Shin and Zhun Li
Microalgae are highly valued for their rapid biomass production and metabolite synthesis, as well as their abundance of beneficial compounds. They have a variety of applications, including serving as the primary ingredient in biofuels, functional foods, ...
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Svetlana Vasilieva, Karina Shibzukhova, Alexei Solovchenko, Olga Chivkunova, Christina Antipova, Alexey Morozov and Elena Lobakova
Green microalgae, including those from the genus Lobosphaera, are exploited in various fields of biotechnology to obtain valuable fatty acids (e.g., arachidonic acid (C20:4, ARA)) for the production of infant formulae, food and feed additives. In nature,...
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Ricardo Luís, Ricardo José, João Castro and Carlos Andrade
Sea urchins play an important role in coastal marine ecosystems and are an economically valuable resource for their gonads (roe or uni). Increased demand by Asian and European countries caused overfishing of wild stocks resulting in a sharp decline of se...
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