Continuous cultivation of microalgae in photobioreactors as a source of renewable energy: Current status and future challenges

AP Peter, AK Koyande, KW Chew, SH Ho… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microalgae are promising sustainable energy sources for biodiesel production due to their
rapid photosynthesis growth rate and capacity to be cultivated in wastewater, seawater, or …

A comprehensive review on cultivation and harvesting of microalgae for biodiesel production: Environmental pollution control and future directions

Z Yin, L Zhu, S Li, T Hu, R Chu, F Mo, D Hu, C Liu… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is one of the best promising candidates in response to the energy crisis, since it
has the capability to minimize most of the environmental problems. Microalgae, as the …

Is exploitation of microalgae economically and energetically sustainable?

L Barsanti, P Gualtieri - Algal research, 2018 - Elsevier
Microalgae are a diverse group of single-cell photosynthetic organisms, both prokaryotes
and eukaryotes, which can rapidly grow in a wide range of habitats under photoautotrophic …

Scaling up microalgal cultures to commercial scale

MA Borowitzka, A Vonshak - European Journal of Phycology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Scaling up algal cultures to the very large volumes required for commercial production is a
complex task and requires skilled and experienced personnel. First it is necessary to …

Ultrahigh‐cell‐density heterotrophic cultivation of the unicellular green microalga Scenedesmus acuminatus and application of the cells to photoautotrophic culture …

H Jin, H Zhang, Z Zhou, K Li, G Hou… - Biotechnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although production of biodiesels from microalgae is proved to be technically feasible, a
commercially viable system has yet to emerge. High‐cell‐density fermentation of microalgae …

Porous substrate bioreactors: a paradigm shift in microalgal biotechnology?

B Podola, T Li, M Melkonian - Trends in Biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
Many of the demands in the production of microalgae at a technical scale cannot presently
be met by state-of-the-art cultivation technologies based on suspensions. Immobilized …

Production of Fatty Acids and Protein by Nannochloropsis in Flat-Plate Photobioreactors

CJ Hulatt, RH Wijffels, S Bolla, V Kiron - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Nannochloropsis is an industrially-promising microalga that may be cultivated for alternative
sources of nutrition due to its high productivity, protein content and lipid composition. We …

A critical review on the status and progress of microalgae cultivation in outdoor photobioreactors conducted over 35 years (1986–2021)

NK Sarker, P Kaparaju - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microalgae, a renewable bio-resource, are considered a potential value-added commodity
and a tool to combat climate change. Microalgal research has received worldwide attention …

[HTML][HTML] Energy balance of algal biomass production in a 1-ha “Green Wall Panel” plant: How to produce algal biomass in a closed reactor achieving a high Net …

MR Tredici, N Bassi, M Prussi, N Biondi, L Rodolfi… - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The annual productivity of Tetraselmis suecica in a 1-ha Green Wall Panel-II (GWP-II) plant
in Tuscany (Italy) is 36 t (dry weight) ha− 1 year− 1, which corresponds to an energy output …

Factors in mass cultivation of microalgae for biodiesel

ZHU Junying, R Junfeng, Z Baoning - Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2013 - Elsevier
Biofuel from microalgae is a long term strategy to solve the energy crisis. It is a new area of
biological engineering and process engineering that consists of the isolation and …