Cultivation of Chlorella protothecoides in anaerobically treated brewery wastewater for cost-effective biodiesel production

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering - Tập 38 - Trang 523-530 - 2014
Cornelius Darpito1, Won-Sub Shin1, Seungjib Jeon1, Hansol Lee1, Kibok Nam1, Jong-Hee Kwon1, Ji-Won Yang1,2
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
2Advanced Biomass R&D Center, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Tóm tắt

The use of wastewater has been investigated to overcome the economic challenge involved with a production of microalgae-based biodiesel. In this study, to achieve economical biodiesel production along with effective wastewater treatment at the same time, anaerobically treated brewery wastewater (ABWW) was utilized as a low-cost nutrient source, in the cultivation of Chlorella protothecoides. About 96 and 90 % of total nitrogen and phosphorus in ABWW were removed, respectively, while C. protothecoides was accumulating 1.88 g L−1 of biomass. The C. protothecoides grown in ABWW showed increases in cell size and cell aggregation, resulting in a near 80 % enhanced harvesting efficiency within 20 min, as compared with only 4 % in BG-11. In addition, the total fatty acid content of the C. protothecoides grown in ABWW increased by 1.84-fold (35.94 ± 1.54 % of its dry cell weight), relative to that of BG-11.

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