Potential of Porous Substrate Bioreactors for Removal of Pollutants from Wastewater Using Microalgae-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Potential of Porous Substrate Bioreactors for Removal of Pollutants from Wastewater Using Microalgae

Published:2023-10-09 Issue:10 Volume:10 Page:1173
ISSN:2306-5354
Container-title:Bioengineering
language:en
Short-container-title:Bioengineering

Author:

Carbone Dora Allegra¹,Melkonian Michael²

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Biological Oceanography, Stazione Zoologica “A. Dohrn”, Villa Comunale, 80121 Naples, Italy

2. Integrative Bioinformatics, Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany

Abstract

Porous substrate bioreactors (PSBRs) are a new technology to grow microalgae immobilized in a dense culture and solve some problems linked to suspended cultivation. During recent years, this technology has been used in laboratory and pilot setups in different fields of environmental biotechnology, such as wastewater treatment. The aim of this short review is to introduce the PSBR technology, summarize the results obtained in removing some pollutants from wastewater, provide an assessment of the potential of PSBRs for wastewater treatment, and the subsequent use of the algal biomass for other purposes.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Bioengineering

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/10/10/1173/pdf

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