Progress towards a targeted biorefinery of : a review.

Unlabelled: Biorefinery approaches offer the potential to improve the economics of the microalgae industry by producing multiple products from a single source of biomass. shows great promise for biorefinery due to high biomass productivity and a diverse range of products including secondary carotenoids, predominantly astaxanthin; lipids such as TAGs; carbohydrates including starch; and proteins and essential amino acids. Whilst this species has been demonstrated to accumulate multiple products, the development of an integrated downstream process to obtain these is lacking.

What Is in Store for EPS Microalgae in the Next Decade?

Microalgae and their metabolites have been an El Dorado since the turn of the 21st century. Many scientific works and industrial exploitations have thus been set up. These developments have often highlighted the need to intensify the processes for biomass production in photo-autotrophy and exploit all the microalgae value including ExoPolySaccharides (EPS).

Filterability of exopolysaccharides solutions from the red microalga by tangential filtration on a polymeric membrane.

The red microalga is exploited industrially for its exopolysaccharides (EPS) and pigments production. EPS produced by are partially released and dissolved into the surrounding environment, they can be recovered from the culture medium after removing the cells. This paper presents a parametric study of the ultrafiltration of EPS solutions on organic membrane.

Optimization of bead milling parameters for the cell disruption of microalgae: process modeling and application to Porphyridium cruentum and Nannochloropsis oculata.

A study of cell disruption by bead milling for two microalgae, Nannochloropsis oculata and Porphyridium cruentum, was performed. Strains robustness was quantified by high-pressure disruption assays. The hydrodynamics in the bead mill grinding chamber was studied by Residence Time Distribution modeling.

Unravelling the matrix effect of fresh sampled cells for in vivo unbiased FTIR determination of the absolute concentration of total lipid content of microalgae.

Over the past years, the substitution of the classical biochemical quantification techniques by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been widely studied on microalgae because of its tremendous application potential for bioprocess monitoring. In the present work, mandatory aspects that have never been approached by FTIR end-users working onto fresh biomass were assessed. We demonstrated first that fresh cells' FTIR spectra main characteristics could be severely and unspecifically altered when the properties of the sampled biomass were not monitored.