Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 22, Pages 2977-2985Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2018.1459874
Keywords
Microalgae; wastewater; removal; ammonium; phosphorus
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- Universidad San Francisco de Quito's Collaboration Grant 2015 program
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito's POLI Grant 2016 program
- Queen's Vice-President Research Opportunity Fund
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canada Research Chair program
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The aim of this project was to study the feasibility of utilizing native microalgae for the removal of nitrogen and phosphorus, as a potential secondary wastewater treatment process in Ecuador. Agitation and aeration batch experiments were conducted using synthetic secondary wastewater effluent, to determine nitrogen and phosphorus removal efficiencies by a native Ecuadorian microalgal strain. Experimental results indicated that microalgal cultures could successfully remove nitrogen and phosphorus. and removal efficiencies of 52.6 and 55.6%, and 67.0 and 20.4%, as well as production efficiencies of 87.0 and 93.1% were reported in agitation and aeration photobioreactors, respectively. Aeration was not found to increase the nutrient removal efficiency of . Moreover, in the case of , a negative impact was observed, where removal efficiencies decreased by a factor of 3.3 at higher aeration rates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the removal of nutrients by native Ecuadorian Chlorella sp., hence the results of this study would indicate that this native microalgal strain could be successfully incorporated in a potential treatment process for nutrient removal in Ecuador. [GRAPHICS] .
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