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Design Considerations of Microalgal Culture Ponds and Photobioreactors for Wastewater Treatment and Biomass Cogeneration

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Microalgae Biotechnology for Development of Biofuel and Wastewater Treatment

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Despite highly potential feedstock for biofuel production, high microalgal biomass production cost has been a major obstacle for commercialization of microalgal bioenergy. Coupling cultivation of microalgal in wastewater for simultaneous nutrients/pollutants removal and biomass cogeneration has been considered as a feasible solution for reducing microalgal production cost. Microalgae are photosynthetic microorganisms which require large amount of nitrogen and phosphorus for their growth and releases oxygen during photosynthesis process. Nevertheless, it is hard to maintain pure cultures of these algae in wastewater treatment processes. Therefore, the utilization of natural and artificial microalga consortia including either microalgae solo or microalgae and bacteria has been studied by several groups. Whatever the mode of culture of microalgae such as single or poly-culture of algae, algae-bacteria, algae-yeast, algae-fungi in wastewater, its production is based on the sample principles such as light availability, appropriate mass and heat transfer, and adequate control of operational parameters. This chapter is aimed at taking consideration of these principles in designing microalgal culture ponds and photobioreactors for wastewater treatment and biomass production. Different emerging designs and important factors and the parameters influencing their performance are reviewed. Mechanism of microorganism interactions and reactor designs used for polyculture cultivation in wastewaters to achieving win-win benefit are also discussed.

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Le, T.G., Tran, DT., Van Do, T.C., Nguyen, V.T. (2019). Design Considerations of Microalgal Culture Ponds and Photobioreactors for Wastewater Treatment and Biomass Cogeneration. In: Alam, M., Wang, Z. (eds) Microalgae Biotechnology for Development of Biofuel and Wastewater Treatment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2264-8_21

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