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Algae-based industrial effluents: generation, characteristics, impacts, and applications for bio-based product recovery in a biorefinery

Biorefinery of Industrial Effluents for a Sustainable Circular Economy, Page: 81-94
2025
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Book Chapter Description

Agroindustrial wastewater is considered one of the most promising effluents for microalgal production, not only for its high content of N, P, and micronutrients already available for algal growth but also for its inherent convenience for the reduction of water consumption and its recirculation for internal processes. Algal biomass is currently the most innovative source of renewable metabolites ranging from low to high-end products, including biofertilizers, biopesticides, feed, and food that can be sustainably exploited by the agroindustrial sector into existing and new processes However, several challenges from upstream (strains of algae to be used, production systems) to downstream (harvesting, drying, and extraction of produced biomass) must be overcome to harness their true potential as a key player in the coupling of photosynthetic biorefineries. The following chapter summarizes state-of-the-art and the challenges in the usage of microalgal and cyanobacterial strains in the recovery of nutrients and the synthesis of bio-based products from agroindustrial wastewater.

Bibliographic Details

Antonio Zuorro; Jefferson E. Contreras-Ropero; Nestor A. Urbina-Suarez; Janet B. Garcia-Martínez; Andrés F. Barajas-Solano; Fiderman Machuca-Martínez

Elsevier BV

Engineering; Environmental Science

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