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Cultivation of Scenedesmus dimorphus for C/N/P removal and lipid production | Xu | Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
doi:10.1016/j.ejbt.2014.12.003
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, Vol 18, No 1 (2015)

Cultivation of Scenedesmus dimorphus for C/N/P removal and lipid production

Xinmiao Xu, Ying Shen, Jiacheng Chen



Abstract

Background: CO2 emission, water pollution and petroleum shortage are the issues coming with the development of industry. A cost effective system was constructed to fix the CO2 in flue gas (15% CO2), remove nitrogen and phosphorus from manure wastewater and produce biofuels at the same time. The significant cultivation conditions were selected by Plackett-Burman design, and then optimized with central composite design.

Results: Optimum culture condition was predicted at light intensity of 238 μmoL·m-2·s-1, TN of 152 mg·L-1, inoculum density of 0.3 g·L-1, under which the measured CO2 fixation rate, total nitrogen and phosphorus removing rate, and lipid content were 638.13 mg·L-1·d-1, 88.16%, 73.98% and 11.9%, respectively. The lipid content was then enhanced to 24.2% by a nitrogen starvation strategy.

Conclusion: A cultivation strategy was suggested to achieve effective C/N/P removal from flue gas and manure wastewater, and meanwhile obtained high lipid content from microalgal biomass.



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