TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated marine microalgae biorefineries for improved bioactive compounds
T2 - A review
AU - Cheng, Pengfei
AU - Li, Yantao
AU - Wang, Chun
AU - Guo, Jiameng
AU - Zhou, Chengxu
AU - Zhang, Renchuan
AU - Ma, Yiwei
AU - Ma, Xiaochen
AU - Wang, Lu
AU - Cheng, Yanling
AU - Yan, Xiaojun
AU - Ruan, Roger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/4/15
Y1 - 2022/4/15
N2 - Marine microalgae offer a promising feedstock for biofuels and other valuable compounds for biorefining and carry immense potential to contribute to a clean energy and environment future. However, it is currently not economically feasible to use marine algae to produce biofuels, and the potential bioactive chemicals account for only a small market share. The production of algal biomass with multiple valuable chemicals is closely related to the algal species, cultivation conditions, culture systems, and production modes. Thus, higher requirements for screening of dominant algal strains, developing integrated technologies with the optimum culture conditions, efficient cultivation systems, and production modes to exploit algal biomass for biorefinery applications, are all needed. This review summarizes the screening of dominant microalgae, discusses the environmental conditions that may affect the growth, as well as the culture systems and production modes, and further emphasizes the valorization options of the algal biomass, which should help to offer a sustainable approach to run a profitable marine algae production system.
AB - Marine microalgae offer a promising feedstock for biofuels and other valuable compounds for biorefining and carry immense potential to contribute to a clean energy and environment future. However, it is currently not economically feasible to use marine algae to produce biofuels, and the potential bioactive chemicals account for only a small market share. The production of algal biomass with multiple valuable chemicals is closely related to the algal species, cultivation conditions, culture systems, and production modes. Thus, higher requirements for screening of dominant algal strains, developing integrated technologies with the optimum culture conditions, efficient cultivation systems, and production modes to exploit algal biomass for biorefinery applications, are all needed. This review summarizes the screening of dominant microalgae, discusses the environmental conditions that may affect the growth, as well as the culture systems and production modes, and further emphasizes the valorization options of the algal biomass, which should help to offer a sustainable approach to run a profitable marine algae production system.
KW - Bioactive compounds
KW - Biofuels
KW - Biorefinery
KW - Marine microalgae
KW - Sustainable application
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152895
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152895
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34998757
AN - SCOPUS:85122781432
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 817
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
M1 - 152895
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