Fungal pretreatment of raw digested piggery wastewater enhancing the survival of algae as biofuel feedstock

Liu, Junying; Qiu, Wen; Wang, Yunpu

doi:10.1186/s40643-016-0136-2

Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Table 4 Comparison of nutrient removal and biomass and lipid production in microalgae grown in various wastewater conditions

From: Fungal pretreatment of raw digested piggery wastewater enhancing the survival of algae as biofuel feedstock

Microalgal species	Wastewater type	Nutrient removal	Biomass production	Lipid content (%)	References
Chlorella vulgaris	Tertiary municipal wastewater	100%	0.29 g L⁻¹	30	Ji et al. (2013b)
Chlorella vulgaris	Piggery wastewater effluent	68% N, 42% P,	1.1 g L⁻¹	–	Ji et al. (2012)
Chlorella vulgaris	Treated domestic sewage	73.77% N, 100% P	–	7.6	Sydney et al. (2011)
Chlorella sorokiniana	Palm oil mill effluent	–	8.0 mg L⁻¹ day⁻¹	28.27	Putri et al. (2011)
Scenedesmus obliquus	Piggery wastewater effluent	26 mg L⁻¹N, 1.9 mg L⁻¹ P	0.18 g L⁻¹	27	Ji et al. (2013a)
Scenedesmus obliquus	Tertiary municipal wastewater	100%	0.31 g L⁻¹	27	Ji et al. (2013b)
Scenedesmus obliquus	Municipal wastewater	97% N, 98% P	0.41 wt L⁻¹	22	Abou-Shanab et al. (2013)
Scenedesmus sp.	Electric factory wastewater	46% N, 100% P	4.5 g L⁻¹	–	Su et al. (2011)
Scenedesmus rubescens	Synthetic wastewater	95.55% P	–	14.91	Aravantinou et al. (2013)
Nannochloropsis salina	Anaerobic digestion effluent	89% N, 82.8% P	155.3 mg L⁻¹ day⁻¹	24.9	Cai et al. (2013)
Nannochloropsis Salina	Diluted digester effluent	97% TN	204.12 mg L⁻¹ day⁻¹	32	Sheets (2013)
Nannochloropsis sp.	50% municipal wastewater	–	2.23 g L⁻¹	59.9	Jiang et al. (2011)
Micratinium reisseri	Mine wastewater	97%	0.8 g L⁻¹	17	Ji et al. (2014)
Micractinium reisseri	Municipal wastewater	–	0.26 wt. L⁻¹	19	Abou-Shanab et al. (2013)
Botryococcus braunii	Treated domestic sewage	60.02% N, 51.15% P	1.88 g L⁻¹	36.14	Sydney et al. (2011)
Ourococcus multisporus	Tertiary municipal wastewater	100%	0.31 g L⁻¹	31	Ji et al. (2013b)
Neochloris vigensis	Synthetic wastewater	94.92% P	–	19.29	Aravantinou et al. (2013)
Chlorococcum spec.	Synthetic wastewater	94.34% P	–	6.93	Aravantinou et al. (2013)

A good review on the research before 2011 about the algal biofuel production using wastewater resources has been made by Pittman et al. (2011)

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