A multidisciplinary review of Tetradesmus obliquus : a microalga suitable for large‐scale biomass production and emerging environmental applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Yure B. Oliveira ◽  
Cicero Diogo L. Oliveira ◽  
Ravindra Prasad ◽  
Hwai C. Ong ◽  
Evando S. Araujo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Applications ◽  
Tetradesmus Obliquus

scholarly journals Outdoor Large-Scale Cultivation of the Acidophilic Microalga Coccomyxa onubensis in a Vertical Close Photobioreactor for Lutein Production

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan-Luis Fuentes ◽  
Zaida Montero ◽  
María Cuaresma ◽  
Mari-Carmen Ruiz-Domínguez ◽  
Benito Mogedas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Ph Values ◽  
Lutein Content ◽  
Acidic Waters ◽  
Large Scale Cultivation ◽  
Rate Limiting ◽  
Lutein Production

The large-scale biomass production is an essential step in the biotechnological applications of microalgae. Coccomyxa onubensis is an acidophilic microalga isolated from the highly acidic waters of Río Tinto (province of Huelva, Spain) and has been shown to accumulate a high concentration of lutein (9.7 mg g−1dw), a valuable antioxidant, when grown at laboratory-scale. A productivity of 0.14 g L−1 d−1 was obtained by growing the microalga under outdoor conditions in an 800 L tubular photobioreactor. The results show a stable biomass production for at least one month and with a lutein content of 10 mg g−1dw, at pH values in the range 2.5–3.0 and temperature in the range 10–25 °C. Culture density, temperature, and CO2 availability in highly acidic medium are rate-limiting conditions for the microalgal growth. These aspects are discussed in this paper in order to improve the outdoor culture conditions for competitive applications of C. onubensis.

scholarly journals Large scale environmental applications of high power ultrasound

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1049-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.F. Collings ◽  
P.B. Gwan ◽  
A.P. Sosa-Pintos
Keyword(s):  
High Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Applications ◽  
Power Ultrasound ◽  
High Power Ultrasound

Acoustic sensing of macroalgae (kelp) for large-scale marine biomass production

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 1797-1797
Author(s):  
Erin M. Fischell ◽  
Andone C. Lavery ◽  
Amy Kukulya ◽  
Timothy K. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Acoustic Sensing ◽  
Marine Biomass

scholarly journals Impacts of Enhanced Weathering on biomass production for negative emission technologies and soil hydrology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wagner de Oliveira Garcia ◽  
Thorben Amann ◽  
Jens Hartmann ◽  
Kristine Karstens ◽  
Alexander Popp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Pedotransfer Functions ◽  
Soil Hydrology ◽  
Rock Powder ◽  
Available Water ◽  
Negative Emission ◽  
Plant Available Water ◽  
Negative Emission Technologies ◽  
P Supply

Abstract. Limiting global mean temperature changes to well below 2 °C likely requires a rapid and large-scale deployment of Negative Emission Technologies (NETs). Assessments so far showed a high potential for biomass based terrestrial NETs, but only few included effects of the commonly found nutrient deficient soils on biomass production. Here, we investigate the deployment of Enhanced Weathering (EW) to supply nutrients to phosphorus (P) deficient areas of Afforestation/Reforestation and naturally growing forests (AR) and bio-energy grasses (BG), besides the impacts on soil hydrology. Using stoichiometric ratios and biomass estimates from two established vegetation models, we calculated the nutrient demand of AR and BG. By comparing the inferred AR P demand to different geogenic P supply scenarios, we estimated that 3–98 Gt C of the predicted biomass accumulation cannot be realized due to insufficient soil P supply for an AR scenario considering natural N supply. An amount of 2–362 Gt basalt powder applied by EW would be needed to cover P gaps and completely sequester projected amounts of 190 Gt C during years 2006–2099. The potential carbon sequestration by EW is 0.6–97.8 Gt CO2 for the same scenario. For BG, 8 kg basalt m−2 a−1 might, on average, replenish the exported K and P by harvest. Using pedotransfer functions, we show that the impacts of basalt powder application on soil hydraulic conductivity and plant available water, for closing predicted P gaps, would depend on basalt and soil texture, but in general the impacts are marginal. We show that EW could potentially close the projected P gaps of an AR scenario, and exported nutrients by BG harvest, which would decrease or replace the use of industrial fertilizers. Besides that, EW ameliorates soil capacity to retain nutrients, soil pH, and renew soil nutrient pools. Last, EW applications could improve plant available water capacity depending on deployed amounts of rock powder – adding a new dimension to the coupling of land-based biomass NETs with EW.

scholarly journals Beneficial land-use change in Europe: deployment scenarios for multifunctional riparian buffers and windbreaks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Englund ◽  
Pål Börjesson ◽  
Blas Mola-Yudego ◽  
Göran Berndes ◽  
Ioannis Dimitriou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Riparian Buffers ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Land Use Impacts ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The land sector needs to increase biomass production to meet multiple demands while reducing negative land use impacts and transitioning from being a source to being a sink of carbon. The new Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP) steers towards a more needs-based, targeted approach to addressing multiple environmental and climatic objectives, in coherence with other EU policies. In relation to this, new schemes are developed to offer farmers direct payments to adapt practices beneficial for climate, water, soil, air and biodiversity. Multifunctional biomass production systems have potential to reduce environmental impacts from agriculture while maintaining or increasing biomass production for the bioeconomy across Europe. Here, we present the first attempt to model the deployment of two such systems, riparian buffers and windbreaks, across >81.000 landscapes in Europe (EU27 + UK), aiming to quantify the resulting ecosystem services and environmental benefits, considering three deployment scenarios with different incentives for implementation. We found that these multifunctional biomass production systems can reduce N emissions to water and soil loss by wind erosion, respectively, down to a “low” impact level all over Europe, while simultaneously providing substantial environmental co-benefits, using less than 1% of the area under annual crops in the EU. The GHG emissions savings of utilizing the biomass produced in these systems for replacing fossil alternatives, combined with the increases in soil organic carbon, correspond to 1-1,4% of total GHG emissions in EU28. The introduction of “eco-schemes” in the new CAP may resolve some of the main barriers to implementation of large-scale multifunctional biomass production systems. Increasing the knowledge of these opportunities among all EU member states, before designing and introducing country-specific Eco-scheme options in the new CAP, is critical.

scholarly journals Is dairy wastewater safe for production of edible microbial biomass: A case study of Saras dairy plant at Jaipur, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Gaur ◽  
Nupur Mathur ◽  
Anuradha Singh ◽  
Pradeep Bhatnagar
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Biomass ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mutagenic Activity ◽  
Dairy Wastewater ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Sos Chromotest ◽  
Microbial Remediation ◽  
Dairy Plant ◽  
Influent Wastewater

Mismanagement of wastewater at large scale may lead to catastrophic environmental and health consequences. Microbial remediation of wastewater is one of the most effective low-cost solutions. There are also initiatives to use wastewater for production edible biomass as an alternative for protein diets. While much researches were oriented towards maximum recovery of biomass and applications, less were focused on mutagenicity of dairy wastewater. In this study, we examined wastewater of one of the largest dairy industries in Rajasthan for its suitability for microbial biomass production and mutagenicity. Influent wastewater was collected from Saras dairy plant, Jaipur, for over a week. Physiochemical properties of wastewater were examined, such as; temperature, pH, salinity, TSS, TDS, turbidity, conductivity, BOD, COD, total carbon, and total nitrogen. SOS chromotest and Salmonella fluctuation test (TA 98, TA 100 and TA 102) were carried out at variable concentration of wastewater to assess mutagenic activity. Results indicated ideal pH, temperature and salinity, for microbial remediation. High TOC and TKN were also observed in the investigated wastewater, which is few of the prerequisites for single cell production. The ratio of BOD and COD was between 0.3-0.4, making the wastewater ideal for microbial growth. No mutagenic activity was observed by SOS chromotest, all three concentrations (C 0.01, C 0.1, and C 0.2) investigated in this study were <1.5 IF. Likewise, mutagenic ratio for all three types of Salmonella revertants were below 1.2 threshold, for investigated concentrations (C 0.5, C 1, and C 10) of wastewater. Conclusively, examined influent wastewater is less likely to induce mutagenic activity at the investigated concentration. Through physiochemical analysis, the investigated wastewater assumed to be candidate substrate for microbial biomass production.

scholarly journals Evaluation of autotrophic and mixotrophic regimen Chlorella pyrenoidosa cells in various wastes water for its biochemical composition and biomass production

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha Phour Dhull ◽  
Raman Soni ◽  
Deepak Kumar Rahi ◽  
Sanjeev Kumar Soni
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Growth Parameters ◽  
Carbon Sources ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Chlorella Pyrenoidosa ◽  
Defined Medium ◽  
Dairy Wastewater ◽  
Treated Wastewater

The present study investigates the possibility of integrating an existing industrial large scale biomass production with the treatment of waste water in which a mixture of organic and inorganic rich pollutants was used as a medium. This study suggests that the replacement of a defined medium with a complete mixotrophic medium gives a significant statistical difference in terms of growth parameters i.e. biomass production and specific growth rate. The green microalga C. pyrenoidosa was cultivated under different mixotrophic conditions for evaluation of biomass production. Inorganic defined fog’s medium supplemented, with raw dairy wastewater led to 1.37g/L biomass production in comparison to 1.2g/L obtained with pure glucose revealing 14.16% increase. The study also involves the supplementation of raw dairy wastewater as an organic carbon source in an inorganic medium comprising municipal treated water and reverse osmosis (RO) treated wastewater and attained 2.4g/L and 1.6g/L of biomass respectively, as compared to 0.3g/L and 0.16g/L obtained in the wastewaters alone revealing 700% and 900% increase respectively. Mixotrophic regimen cells as analyzed by a 2D Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for its biochemical content revealed that fog’s blended raw dairy waste (RDW) regimen cells had maximum Carbohydrate/Amide ratio. The study suggests that the mixotrophic regimen C. pyrenoidosa cells can show appropriate growth in a mixture of waste waters and the same comes out to be a cost effective and feasible alternative commercial medium for biomass production without requiring any expensive organic carbon sources in the culture medium.

scholarly journals Evaluation of autotrophic and mixotrophic regimen Chlorella pyrenoidosa cells in various wastes water for its biochemical composition and biomass production

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha Phour Dhull ◽  
Raman Soni ◽  
Deepak Kumar Rahi ◽  
Sanjeev Kumar Soni
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Growth Parameters ◽  
Carbon Sources ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Chlorella Pyrenoidosa ◽  
Defined Medium ◽  
Dairy Wastewater ◽  
Treated Wastewater

The present study investigates the possibility of integrating an existing industrial large scale biomass production with the treatment of waste water in which a mixture of organic and inorganic rich pollutants was used as a medium. This study suggests that the replacement of a defined medium with a complete mixotrophic medium gives a significant statistical difference in terms of growth parameters i.e. biomass production and specific growth rate. The green microalga C. pyrenoidosa was cultivated under different mixotrophic conditions for evaluation of biomass production. Inorganic defined fog’s medium supplemented, with raw dairy wastewater led to 1.37g/L biomass production in comparison to 1.2g/L obtained with pure glucose revealing 14.16% increase. The study also involves the supplementation of raw dairy wastewater as an organic carbon source in an inorganic medium comprising municipal treated water and reverse osmosis (RO) treated wastewater and attained 2.4g/L and 1.6g/L of biomass respectively, as compared to 0.3g/L and 0.16g/L obtained in the wastewaters alone revealing 700% and 900% increase respectively. Mixotrophic regimen cells as analyzed by a 2D Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for its biochemical content revealed that fog’s blended raw dairy waste (RDW) regimen cells had maximum Carbohydrate/Amide ratio. The study suggests that the mixotrophic regimen C. pyrenoidosa cells can show appropriate growth in a mixture of waste waters and the same comes out to be a cost effective and feasible alternative commercial medium for biomass production without requiring any expensive organic carbon sources in the culture medium.

scholarly journals Plant Pellets: A Compatible Vegan Feedstock for Preparation of Plant-Based Culture Media and Production of Value-Added Biomass of Rhizobia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8389
Author(s):  
Hassan-Sibroe A. Daanaa ◽  
Mennatullah Abdou ◽  
Hanan A. Goda ◽  
Mohamed T. Abbas ◽  
Mervat A. Hamza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomass Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Rhizobium Leguminosarum ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
In Vitro Cultivation ◽  
Generation Times ◽  
Yeast Extract Mannitol

Although plant-based culture media enhances in vitro cultivation of rhizobacteria, studies assessing their biomass potential for large-scale applications are lacking. Here, we advance plant pellets (PPs) as a novel technology to unlock the potential of such vegan culture media for biomass production of Rhizobium leguminosarum. PP formulations were based on mixtures of Egyptian clover powder and the agro-byproducts glycerol and molasses. These mixtures were either contained or not contained in teabags during culture media preparation. Metrics of biomass included colony forming units, optical density (OD600nm), and cell dry weight (DW). Biomass comparisons between culture media based on PPs and standard yeast extract mannitol (YEM) revealed that the following PPs composition, contained in teabags, cultivated rhizobia at levels comparable to YEM: 16 g clover powder, 5% molasses, and 0.8% glycerol. This PPs composition enabled shorter generation times of rhizobia (PP: 3.83 h, YEM: 4.28 h). Strikingly, PPs mixtures supplemented with 10% molasses and not contained in teabags promoted rhizobia without apparent lag phases and produced 25% greater DW than YEM. PPs potentiate the use of dehydrated vegan feedstocks for both plant microbiota cultivation and biomass production and appear as cost- and labor-effective tools, easy to handle and store for plant-based culture media preparation.

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