Tertiary treatment of dairy wastewater applying a microalga-fungus consortium.

This paper aimed to apply filamentous fungi ( and ), the microalga and their co-culture in advanced treatment (tertiary treatment) of cheese whey. The bioremediation process was carried out in agitated flasks and bubble column bioreactors with different concentrations of chemical oxygen demand (COD) (223-1663 mg L), total nitrogen (TN) (13-61 mg L), and total phosphorus (TP) (3-26 mg L). The results obtained in shaken flasks showed a superiority of the consortium compared to the systems with separated species.