A review on flocculation as an efficient method to harvest energy microalgae: mechanisms, performances, influencing factors and perspectives

S Li, T Hu, Y Xu, J Wang, R Chu, Z Yin, F Mo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
The energy demands and costs of harvesting microalgal biomass make it unrealistic and
unsustainable for economically feasible microalgal biofuel production. Therefore, meticulous …

Modern developmental aspects in the field of economical harvesting and biodiesel production from microalgae biomass

G Muhammad, MA Alam, M Mofijur, MI Jahirul… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microalgae have been widely explored because of the diverse number of their worthwhile
applications and potential as a source biomass for the production of biofuels and value …

Cell disruption and lipid extraction for microalgal biorefineries: A review

SY Lee, JM Cho, YK Chang, YK Oh - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
The microalgae-based biorefinement process has attracted much attention from academic
and industrial researchers attracted to its biofuel, food and nutraceutical applications. In this …

Lipid recovery from wet oleaginous microbial biomass for biofuel production: a critical review

T Dong, EP Knoshaug, PT Pienkos, LML Laurens - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Biological lipids derived from oleaginous microorganisms are promising precursors for
renewable biofuel productions. Direct lipid extraction from wet cell-biomass is favored …

Cell-wall disruption and lipid/astaxanthin extraction from microalgae: Chlorella and Haematococcus

DY Kim, D Vijayan, R Praveenkumar, JI Han, K Lee… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
Recently, biofuels and nutraceuticals produced from microalgae have emerged as major
interests, resulting in intensive research of the microalgal biorefinery process. In this paper …

Multi-product microalgae biorefineries: from concept towards reality

MH Vermuë, MHM Eppink, RH Wijffels… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Although microalgae are a promising biobased feedstock, industrial scale production is still
far off. To enhance the economic viability of large-scale microalgae processes, all biomass …

Biodiesels from microbial oils: opportunity and challenges

Y Ma, Z Gao, Q Wang, Y Liu - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Although biodiesel has been extensively explored as an important renewable energy
source, the raw materials-associated cost poses a serious challenge on its large-scale …

A review of the concepts, recent advances and niche applications of the (photo) Fenton process, beyond water/wastewater treatment: surface functionalization …

S Giannakis - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019 - Elsevier
The Fenton reaction was discovered over 120 years ago, yet our understanding of the
complete reaction mechanism of the seemingly simple iron and hydrogen peroxide reaction …

Microalgae: An emerging source of energy based bio-products and a solution for environmental issues

R Katiyar, BR Gurjar, S Biswas, V Pruthi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
The microalgae biomass is emerging as a potential source of energy and bioproducts with
several advantages over conventional crops in terms of its ability to produce~ 300-times …

Microalgae harvest influences the energy recovery: a case study on chemical flocculation of Scenedesmus obliquus for biodiesel and crude bio-oil production

S Wang, M Yerkebulan, AEF Abomohra… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present study, centrifugation was used as a standard harvest method, while chemical
flocculation was comparatively used as a cost-effective harvest method for microalgae. Lipid …