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Table 5 Microbial flocculant production as an incidental product of other biological processes

From: Recent advances and perspectives in efforts to reduce the production and application cost of microbial flocculants

Strains

Bioprocesses

Yields or flocculating activity

Ref

Enterobacter aerogenes

Biohydrogen production

Bioflocculant yield 3.6 g/L and biohydrogen 35 mL H2/g dry weight algal biomass

Xu et al. (2018b)

Klebsiella oxytoca

Nitriles degradation

Bioflocculant yield was 4.92–5.21 g/L

Yu et al. (2020a)

Bacillus sp.

Production of hydrogen

Hydrogen yield was 1.79 mol H2/mol glucose and flocculating activity was 98.6%

Liu et al. (2015b)

Pantoea agglomerans

Production of hydrogen

Hydrogen yield was 1.55 mol H2/mol glucose and flocculating activity was 83.7%

Liu et al. (2016a)

Methanosarcina spelaei

Methane production

Methane yield was 17.4 mmol methane/mol acetate and flocculating activity was 95.6%

Zhao et al. (2020)

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