Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 184, Issue -, Pages 230-235Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.10.064
Keywords
Microalgae; Wastewater treatment; Biohydrogen; Dark fermentation
Funding
- project WW-SIP - From Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant to Self-Sustainable Integrated Platform for Wastewater Refinement'' [LIFE10 ENV/IT/000308]
- Post-Doc Grant from FCT - Portugal [SFRH/BPD/84812/2012]
- Capes Foundation, Ministry of Education - Brazil [99999.012781/2013-04]
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The aim of the present work was the simultaneous treatment of urban wastewater using microalgae and the energetic valorization of the obtained biomass. Chlorella vulgaris (Cv), Scenedesmus obliquus (Sc) and a naturally occurring algal Consortium C (ConsC) were grown in an urban wastewater. The nutrient removals were quite high and the treated water fits the legislation (PT Dec-Lei 236/98) in what concerns the parameters analysed (N, P, COD). After nutrient depletion the microalgae remained two more weeks in the photobioreactor (PBR) under nutritional stress conditions, to induce sugar accumulation (22-43%). The stressed biomass was converted into biohydrogen (bioH(2)), a clean energy carrier, through dark fermentation by a strain of the bacteria Enterobacter aerogenes. The fermentation kinetics were monitored and fitted to a modified Gompertz model. The highest bioH(2) production yield was obtained for S. obliquus (56.8 mL H-2/g(VS)) which was very similar when using the same algae grown in synthetic media. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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