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Knowledge of Regulation of Photosynthesis in Outdoor Microalgae Cultures Is Essential for the Optimization of Biomass Productivity

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Microalgae represent a sustainable source of biomass that can be exploited for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic applications, as well as for food, feed, chemicals, and energy.
Giorgio Perin, Francesca Gambaro, Tomas Morosinotto   +2 more
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Development of an Organic Culture Medium for Autotrophic Production of Chlorella vulgaris Biomass

Applied Sciences, 2020
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 ...
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, Joana Silva   +12 more
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Third generation biofuels: Cultivation methods and technologies for processing of microalgal biofuels

Zaštita Materijala, 2021
Energy production from biomass is gaining a lot of attention. Algal oil (microand macroalgae) can be used for biofuel production. Biofuels from this type of feedstock are called third generation biofuels or advanced biofuels.
Milica Preradović, Saša Papuga
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Comparison of Galdieria growth and photosynthetic activity in different culture systems

AMB Express, 2020
In the last years, the acidothermophilic red microalga Galdieria sulphuraria has been increasingly studied for industrial applications such as wastewater treatment, recovery of rare earth elements, production of phycobilins.
Dora Allegra Carbone, Giuseppe Olivieri, Antonino Pollio, Michael Melkonian   +3 more
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Current Concentrations of Zn, Cu, and As in Piggery Wastewater Compromise Nutrient Removals in Microalgae–Bacteria Photobioreactors Due to Altered Microbial Communities

Biology, 2022
The treatment of pig manure is a major environmental issue, and photobioreactors containing consortia of microalgae and bacteria have proven to be a promising and sustainable treatment alternative.
Javiera Collao, Pedro Antonio García-Encina, Saúl Blanco, Silvia Bolado-Rodríguez, Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez   +4 more
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Production of β‐carotene with Dunaliella salina CCAP19/18 at physically simulated outdoor conditions

Engineering in Life Sciences, 2021
Batch growth and β‐carotene production of Dunaliella salina CCAP19/18 was investigated in flat‐plate gas‐lift photobioreactors with a light path of 2 cm, operated in physically simulated outdoor conditions.
Lara Wolf, Thomas Cummings, Katharina Müller, Manfred Reppke, Marianne Volkmar, Dirk Weuster‐Botz   +5 more
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Isolation, Identification and Biotechnological Applications of a Novel, Robust, Free-living Chlorococcum (Oophila) amblystomatis Strain Isolated from a Local Pond

Applied Sciences, 2020
Bioprospection of novel autochthonous strains is key to the successful industrial-scale production of microalgal biomass. A novel Chlorococcum strain was recently isolated from a pond inside the industrial production facility of Allmicroalgae (Leiria ...
Nádia Correia, Hugo Pereira, Joana T. Silva, Tamára Santos, Maria Soares, Carolina B. Sousa, Lisa M. Schüler, Margarida Costa, João Varela, Leonel Pereira, Joana Silva   +10 more
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In Situ Quantification of Polyhydroxybutyrate in Photobioreactor Cultivations of Synechocystis sp. Using an Ultrasound-Enhanced ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy Probe

Bioengineering, 2021
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a very promising alternative to most petroleum-based plastics with the huge advantage of biodegradability. Biotechnological production processes utilizing cyanobacteria as sustainable source of PHB require fast in situ ...
Philipp Doppler, Christoph Gasser, Ricarda Kriechbaum, Ardita Ferizi, Oliver Spadiut   +4 more
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Modeling and Simulation of Photobioreactors with Computational Fluid Dynamics—A Comprehensive Review

Energies, 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been frequently applied to model the growth conditions in photobioreactors, which are affected in a complex way by multiple, interacting physical processes.
Giovanni Luzi, Christopher McHardy
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Comprehensive assessment of microalgal-based treatment processes for dairy wastewater

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
The dairy industry is becoming one of the biggest sectors within the global food industry, and these industries use almost 34% of the water. The amount of water used is governed by the production process and the technologies employed in the plants ...
Pooja Singh, Satya Sundar Mohanty, Kaustubha Mohanty   +2 more
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