Assessing Oil Content of Microalgae Grown in Industrial Energetic-Laden Wastewater

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Assessing Oil Content of Microalgae Grown in Industrial Energetic-Laden Wastewater
المؤلفون: Washington Braida, Yanxia Lin, Tobi Abimbola, Adeniyi Lawal, Agamemnon Koutsospyros, Christos Christodoulatos, Abhishek RoyChowdhury, Juliana Abraham
المصدر: Environmental Processes. 6:969-983
بيانات النشر: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: Environmental Engineering, business.industry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 0207 environmental engineering, Biomass, chemistry.chemical_element, 02 engineering and technology, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulp and paper industry, 01 natural sciences, Pollution, Nitrogen, Renewable energy, Light intensity, Nutrient, chemistry, Wastewater, Dry weight, Environmental science, Raceway, 020701 environmental engineering, business, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Water Science and Technology
الوصف: Industrial ammunition facilities generate wastewater containing different energetic compounds and nitrogen species. Our previous studies showed that some of these untreated wastewater streams can be mixed at a specific ratio to grow microalgae. In this study, four different untreated wastewater samples from an industrial ammunition facility were mixed and used as a culture media for microalgae, Scenedesmus obliquus ATCC®11477, in 100 L raceway reactors. The main objective of the study was to test the effect of growth parameters (light penetration, nutrient availability and retention times) on the oil content of microalgae in a semi-continuous setting. The raceway reactors were operated under 68–95 μmol/m2/s of light intensity for a 14:10 h light:dark photoperiod, and 60 rpm mixing paddle speed. Continuous monitoring of pH and temperature of the growth medium, periodic analysis of cell density and dry weight of microalgae, and analysis of the medium’s nutrient contents were performed. Biomass harvesting from the raceway reactors was conducted weekly, and the harvested algal biomass was tested for its oil content using an ethanol extraction method. Results showed that nitrogen starvation increased the oil production from 13% to 29% of oil based on the dry weight of biomass, whereas no increment in oil or biomass production was evidenced with the increase of light penetration for the two different retention times tested. This study provided significant information towards microalgae growth in energetic-laden wastewater streams. This study also showed that wastewaters from industrial ammunition facilities can be reused for culturing microalgae, which can be utilized for renewable energy production.
تدمد: 2198-7505
2198-7491
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::73a1c150bda37f96770ba2744dfebb76
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-019-00396-5
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........73a1c150bda37f96770ba2744dfebb76
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE