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Co-functional Activity of Microalgae: Biological Wastewater Treatment and Bio-fuel Production

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Water pollution raises serious environmental and health issues around the world because of the high demand for water for several human activities ranging from domestic usage to industrial applications. Water treatment and recycling are imperative to meet industrial and agricultural water needs. Existing water treatment facilities are either cost-intensive or create a negative environmental impact. To save cost and ensure environmental sustainability, sustainable and cost-effective water treatment techniques are highly needed. Biological wastewater treatment using microalgae offers notable advantages in terms of cost and environmental sustainability. Microalgae are a class of microbes that use contaminants in wastewater to generate algae biomass via photosynthetic processes. Algae biomass, in turn, serves as a substrate for the production of economic products such as bio-fuel, chemicals, fish feed, and other value-added products. Generation of bio-fuel from microalgae is an attractive research area because of the enormous benefits that can be derived from algae. This work discusses the biological wastewater treatment using algae, algae cultivation systems, conversion routes for algae biomass, comparison of algae harvesting methods, algae bio-refinery and products, and sustainability of algae-based bio-fuel. Sustainability can be guaranteed via integration of algae bio-refinery strategy which can produce other value-added products alongside bio-fuel.

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Akubude, V.C., Ajala, E.O., Nzediegwu, C. (2022). Co-functional Activity of Microalgae: Biological Wastewater Treatment and Bio-fuel Production. In: Inamuddin, Ahamed, M.I., Prasad, R. (eds) Application of Microbes in Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2225-0_13

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