Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 265-275Publisher
KOREAN SOC ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.4491/eer.2016.005
Keywords
Anaerobic digestion; Biofuels; Microalgae; Neochloris oleoabundans
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Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) through Sustainable Energy Pathways (SEP) program [1230961]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1230961] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1631953] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this study, the microalga Neochloris oleoabundans was cultivated in a sustainable manner using diluted anaerobic digestate to produce biomass as a potential biofuel feedstock. Prior to microalgae cultivation, the anaerobic digestate was characterized and several pretreatment methods including hydrogen peroxide treatment, filtration, and supernatant extraction were investigated and their impact on the removal of suspended solids as well as other organic and inorganic matter was evaluated. It was found that the supernatant extraction was the most convenient pretreatment method and was used afterwards to prepare the nutrient media for microalgae cultivation. A bench-scale experiment was conducted using multiple dilutions of the supernatant and filtered anaerobic digestate in 16 mm round glass vials. The results indicated that the highest growth of the microalga N. oleoabundans was achieved with a total nitrogen concentration of 100 mg N/L in the 2.29% diluted supernatant in comparison to the filtered digestate and other dilutions.
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