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T1 Current advances in microalgae-based treatment of high-strength wastewaters: challenges and opportunities to enhance wastewater treatment performance
A1 Torres Franco, Andrés Felipe
A1 Passos, Fabiana
A1 Figueredo, Cleber
A1 Mota, César
A1 Muñoz Torre, Raúl
K1 Microalgas
K1 Aguas residuales
K1 Microalgae-based technologies
K1 23 Química
K1 24 Ciencias de la Vida
AB Microalgae-based technologies, usually configured as high rate algal ponds (HRAP), are efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective alternatives for wastewater treatment due to their high removal efficiencies at low energy demand, ability to recover nutrients and ease of operation. HRAPs and other photobioreactors have been intensively studied in recent years for the treatment of high-strength wastewaters, which are mainly characterised by high and unbalanced (in terms of microalgae requirements) concentrations of organic carbon and nutrients. This review critically evaluated research papers that used microalgae-based systems for the removal of carbon and nitrogen from high-strength wastewaters. These systems can provide removal efficiencies up to 100% for organic matter and ammonium nitrogen. Relatively large area requirements, high evaporative losses, ammonia inhibition, poor light penetration and scattering, carbon dioxide limitation, and unbalanced nutrient ratios rank among the main current limitations of these technologies. Optimisation strategies, including modifications in bioreactor design and operation, can broaden their full-scale application for the treatment of high strength wastewaters.
PB Springer Nature
SN 1569-1705
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/46524
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/46524
LA eng
NO Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, 2020, vol. 20, n. 1, p. 209-235
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-abr-2024