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Título del libro: Microalgae Cultivation For Biofuels Production
Título del capítulo: Environmental resilience by microalgae

Autores UNAM:
ARMANDO GONZALEZ SANCHEZ;
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Año de publicación:
2019
Palabras clave:

Biofuels; Biomass; Dyes; Emerging contaminants; Metals; Microalgae; Organic matter; Toxic compounds


Resumen:

The potential of microalgae for treating high-strength, metal-containing, and highly polluted wastewaters is presented in this chapter. During the past decade, there has been a growing interest in exploiting microalgae resilience to toxic compounds for nutrient removal from agro-industrial and industrial wastewaters. The genera Chlorella and Scenedesmus have proven to be efficient in removing nutrients from different wastewaters despite their low biodegradability and strong color. Algal biomass has been proposed as a biofuels feedstock; however, large-scale commercialization of algae-based biofuels is still limited by the high production costs of biomass. In this sense, recent demonstrative facilities of microalgae-based wastewater treatment processes have shown that this technology only makes sense if it uses the produced biomass for biomethane production or as biofertilizer. © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


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