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Mass cultivation and harvesting of microalgal biomass: Current trends and future perspectives
- Source :
- Bioresource technology. 344
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Microalgae are unicellular photosynthetic organisms capable of producing high-value metabolites like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, pigments, and other high-value metabolites. Microalgal biomass gained more interest for the production of nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, food supplements, feed, biofuel, bio-fertilizers, etc. due to its high lipid and other high-value metabolite content. Microalgal biomass has the potential to convert trapped solar energy to organic materials and potential metabolites of nutraceutical and industrial interest. They have higher efficiency to fix carbon dioxide (CO2) and subsequently convert it into biomass and compounds of potential interest. However, to make microalgae a potential industrial candidate, cost-effective cultivation systems and harvesting methods for increasing biomass yield and reducing the cost of downstream processing have become extremely urgent and important. In this review, the current development in different microalgal cultivation systems and harvesting methods has been discussed.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
Downstream processing
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Metabolite
Biomass
Bioengineering
General Medicine
Carbon Dioxide
Pulp and paper industry
Photosynthesis
Lipids
chemistry.chemical_compound
Nutraceutical
chemistry
Biofuel
Biomass yield
Biofuels
Carbon dioxide
Microalgae
Environmental science
Waste Management and Disposal
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18732976
- Volume :
- 344
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bioresource technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....34d061d4d678b07240a3b70841b9f485