CO2 environmental bioremediation by microalgae

Raeesossadati, M.J., Ahmadzadeh, H., McHenry, M.P. and Moheimani, N.R.ORCID: 0000-0003-2310-4147 (2015) CO2 environmental bioremediation by microalgae. In: Biomass and Biofuels from Microalgae. Springer International Publishing, pp. 117-136.

Abstract

Various microalgae species have shown a differential ability to bioremediate atmospheric CO2 . This chapter reports biomass concentration , biomass productivity , and CO2 fixation rates of several microalgae and cyanobacteria species under different CO2 concentrations and culture conditions. Research indicates that microalgal species of Scenedesmuss obliquss , Duniella tertiolecta , Chlorella vulgaris , Phormidium sp. , Amicroscopica negeli , and Chlorococcum littorale are able to bioremediate CO2 more effectively than other species. Furthermore, coccolithophorid microalgae such as Chrysotila carterae were also found to effectively bioremediate CO2 into organic biomass and generate inorganic CaCO3 as additional means of removing atmospheric CO2 . Important factors to increase the rate of CO2 bioremediation such as initial cell concentration , input CO2 concentration , and aeration rate are reviewed and discussed.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Murdoch Affiliation(s):	School of Engineering and Information Technology School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Copyright:	© 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
Other Information:	Series Title: Biofuel and Biorefinery Technologies; Vol. 2
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/49667

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