Abstract
Wastewater utilization for high value microalgal biomass production is potentially the most economical route for its fuel and feed applications. In this study, the suitability of various stages brewery wastewaters for economic microalgae cultured was studied to realize bioactive product synthesis and wastewater purification dual goals. First, through economic algae strains screening, the robust strain FACHB-1068 for brewery wastewater was obtained, in which the biomass concentration was high as 0.76 g/L after 7-day culture. The following nutrient removal results of FACHB-1068 show that over 93% of NH4-N (from 24.1 to 1.54 mg/L) and 74% of TP (from 7.39 to 1.91 mg/L) were removed in RW after only 3-day culture. Meanwhile, 1.9 mg/L lutein was harvested in RW. Next, processing time was extended and it was found that the lutein production was high as 3.3 mg/L in 10-day ICW culture with efficient ammonium (94.2%, from 23.6 to 1.37 mg/L) and phosphate (91%, from 7.35 to 1.1 mg/L) removal. And in the low nutrient discharged wastewater, there were also 2.58 mg/L lutein production after 10-day culture. Finally, the investigation of the environmental factors’ effects shows that moderate luminosity (150-200 μ photons/m2 s1) and proper addition of phosphate and ferric can lead to the highest biomass (1.09 g/L) and lutein productivity (4.2 mg/L) in ICW culture.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 11-18 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | International Agricultural Engineering Journal |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - Mar 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Benemann, J., & Oswald, W. (1996). Final report to the US Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-FG22-93PC93204. Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, 1996.
Funding Information:
This works was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (31600208), Premium Funding Project for Academic Human Resources Development in Beijing Union University, the science and technology foundation of Beijing municipal education committee (2016) and the talent strengthening foundation of Beijing Union University (Grant Nos. BPHR2017DZ06) to W.W.
Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords
- Brewery wastewaters
- Lutein
- Microalgae
- Nutrients removal