Cultivating microalgae on wastewaters is an effective way to produce algal biomass whereas harvesting microalgae is a costly operation. This study we examined the feasibility of co-culturing a high-value microalga with an auto-flocculating strain to enable efficient recovery of biomass. Experiments were conducted to co-cultivate Chlorella zofingiensis with Tribonema sp. on swine wastewater diluted by fishery wastewater under different conditions. The result showed the optimal inoculum ratio of Tribonema sp. to Chlorella zofingiensis was 1:1. The removal efficiencies of pollutants (NH-N, TN, TP, and COD) and lipid content were high when the co-culture ratios of Tribonema sp. were high. Also, some larger chain fatty acids, specifically C20:5 and C22:6 were present when the two strains co-culture. The recovery efficiency increased with the increasing proportion of auto-flocculating Tribonema sp.. Algae co-culture has the potential to address limitations in substrate utilization by individual strains, also improve the recovery of biomass.
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