Algae as potential feedstock for the production of biofuels and value-added products: Opportunities and challenges

M Kumar, Y Sun, R Rathour, A Pandey… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The current review explores the potential application of algal biomass for the production of
biofuels and bio-based products. The variety of processes and pathways through which bio …

Bioremediation of water containing pesticides by microalgae: Mechanisms, methods, and prospects for future research

J Nie, Y Sun, Y Zhou, M Kumar, M Usman, J Li… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The application of pesticides reduces the loss of crops while simultaneously increasing crop
productivity. However, the frequent use of pesticides can cause serious environmental …

Microalgae proteins: Production, separation, isolation, quantification, and application in food and feed

ML Amorim, J Soares, JSR Coimbra… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Many countries have been experienced an increase in protein consumption due to the
population growth and adoption of protein-rich dietaries. Unfortunately, conventional-based …

A review on the assessment of stress conditions for simultaneous production of microalgal lipids and carotenoids

AK Minhas, P Hodgson, CJ Barrow… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Microalgal species are potential resource of both biofuels and high-value metabolites, and
their production is growth dependent. Growth parameters can be screened for the selection …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities to increase economic feasibility and sustainability of mixotrophic cultivation of green microalgae of the genus Chlorella

G Dragone - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Green microalgae belonging to the genus Chlorella have long been used as health foods
and additives for human consumption, as well as animal feed. These photosynthetic …

Phycobiliprotein: Potential microalgae derived pharmaceutical and biological reagent

E Manirafasha, T Ndikubwimana, X Zeng, Y Lu… - Biochemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Microalgae are considered as a great potential for reliable and sustainable feedstock for the
production of biofuels and biochemically active compounds such as phycobiliproteins …

Microalgae as contributors to produce biopolymers

R Madadi, H Maljaee, LS Serafim, SPM Ventura - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biopolymers are very favorable materials produced by living organisms, with interesting
properties such as biodegradability, renewability, and biocompatibility. Biopolymers have …

Emerging prospects of mixotrophic microalgae: Way forward to sustainable bioprocess for environmental remediation and cost-effective biofuels

AK Patel, YY Choi, SJ Sim - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Algal bioremediation becoming most fascinating to produce biomass as biofuels feedstock
while remediating wastes, also improving carbon-footprint through carbon capturing and …

Mixotrophy, a more promising culture mode: Multi-faceted elaboration of carbon and energy metabolism mechanisms to optimize microalgae culture

S Shan, AY Manyakhin, C Wang, B Ge, J Han… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
Some mixotrophic microalgae appear to exceed the sum of photoautotrophy and
heterotrophy in terms of biomass production. This paper mainly reviews the carbon and …

Microalgal heterotrophic and mixotrophic culturing for bio-refining: from metabolic routes to techno-economics

O Perez-Garcia, Y Bashan - Algal Biorefineries: Volume 2: Products and …, 2015 - Springer
In comparison with conventional photo-autotrophic cultivation, heterotrophic and mixotrophic
cultivations of microalgae offers a feasible strategy to produce biomass and valuable …