Assessing sustainability of microalgae-based wastewater treatment: Environmental considerations and impacts on human health

A Bhatt, N Sahu, AC Dada, SK Prajapati… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
An integrated life cycle assessment (LCA) and quantitative microbial risk assessment
(QMRA) were conducted to assess microalgae-mediated wastewater disinfection (M-WWD) …

Coupling bioremediation and biorefinery prospects of microalgae for circular economy

MVL Chhandama, PK Rai - Bioresource Technology Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The compounding concentration of pollutants in the environment and the drastic decline in
fossil fuels reserves perturbed the environmental sustainability. Consequently, the past few …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in wastewater microalgae-based biofuels production: A state-of-the-art review

SS Ali, SG Mastropetros, M Schagerl, M Sakarika… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapidly expanding industrialization and the depletion of non-renewable fossil fuels have
necessitated the discovery of feasible renewable alternatives to meet the rising energy …

Microalgae production as a biofuel feedstock: risks and challenges

L Zhu, T Ketola - … Journal of Sustainable Development & World …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
From a sustainability perspective, the potential risks associated with microalgae production
for biofuel extraction will be investigated in this paper, including the environmental …

Life cycle environmental impacts of wastewater-based algal biofuels

D Mu, M Min, B Krohn, KA Mullins… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Recent research has proposed integrating wastewater treatment with algae cultivation as a
way of producing algal biofuels at a commercial scale more sustainably. This study …

Life cycle assessment and technoeconomic analysis of biofuels produced from polyculture microalgae cultivated in greywater

A Mohit, VK Mishel, N Remya - Journal of Environmental Management, 2024 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the environmental and economic impacts of substituting synthetic
media with greywater for cultivating microalgae in the biofuel production process. Life cycle …

Integrating life cycle assessment with quantitative microbial risk assessment for a holistic evaluation of sewage treatment plant

A Bhatt, AC Dada, SK Prajapati, P Arora - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
An integrated approach was employed in the present study to combine life cycle assessment
(LCA) with quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) to assess an existing sewage …

Effects of co-products on the life-cycle impacts of microalgal biodiesel

K Soratana, WJ Barr, AE Landis - Bioresource Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Microalgal biodiesel production has been investigated for decades, yet it is not commercially
available. Part of the problem is that the production process is energy and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of biodiesel from estuarine microalgae

G Saranya, TV Ramachandra - Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2020 - Elsevier
Life cycle assessment (LCA) entails the analysis of potential environmental loads and
natural resources utilised while manufacturing a product, which helps in sustainable …

[PDF][PDF] Sustainability metrics on microalgae-based wastewater treatment system

AM dos Santos, MC Deprá, AM dos Santos… - Desalin. Water …, 2020 - researchgate.net
abstract This paper presents a life cycle assessment of a simulated large-scale process of
agroindustrial wastewater treatment through microalgal heterotrophic bioreactors. The study …