Bioplastic Production from Microalgae: A Review.

Plastic waste production around the world is increasing, which leads to global plastic waste pollution. The need for an innovative solution to reduce this pollution is inevitable. Increased recycling of plastic waste alone is not a comprehensive solution.

Outdoor cultivation of Chlorella sorokiniana in third generation biorefinery: Resource savings through medium recycling.

The reduction of resource requirements for the outdoor cultivation of Chlorella sorokiniana using 180 L flat panel photobioreactors through medium recycling was investigated in this study. Without medium recycling, algae grew in 13.6 d from 0.

Biosorption of neodymium on Chlorella vulgaris in aqueous solution obtained from hard disk drive magnets.

In recent years, biosorption is being considered as an environmental friendly technology for the recovery of rare earth metals (REE). This study investigates the optimal conditions for the biosorption of neodymium (Nd) from an aqueous solution derived from hard drive disk magnets using green microalgae (Chlorella vulgaris). The parameters considered include solution pH, temperature and biosorbent dosage.

Microalgae-bacteria flocs (MaB-Flocs) as a substrate for fermentative biogas production.

Biogas production from the microalgae-bacteria flocs (MaB-Flocs) in batch reactors was conducted in this study. A batch test was performed to determine optimum inoculums that were taken from a running biogas plant (BP), a municipal wastewater treatment plant (MWTP) and a river sediment (RS). The maximum biogas yield (304.