A review of carbon dioxide capture and utilization by membrane integrated microalgal cultivation processes

Rahaman, Muhammad Syukri Abd; Cheng, Li Ting; Xu, Xinhua; Zhang, Lin; Chen, Huan Lin

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.031

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“…Application of wastewater as a medium that provides nutrients for algal growth is economically feasible and significantly reduces the costs of cultivation [Rawat et al 2011;Boelee et al 2011;Prajapati et al 2013] that along with required area, harvesting methods and CO 2 supplementation is the crucial factor which determines profitability of this process [Rahaman et al 2011;Prajapati et al 2013;Dębowski et al 2013].…”

Section: Algae Proliferation On Substrates Immersed In Biologicallymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is caused by capabilities of using their biomass as a feedstock in food production, renewable fuels and their usefulness to treat wastewater in wastewater treatment [Krzemieniewski et al 2009; Rawat et al 2010; Rahaman et al 2011]. The ability of algae to remove contaminants as well as and sequestrate CO 2 from atmospheric air, constitute wide perspectives for the use of biomass of these microorganisms in energy recovery [Prajapati et al 2013].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is, undoubtedly, very important issue especially that algae possess a lot of favorable features in comparison with terrestrial energy crops, which are very popular in biofuel production. Among this features are high productivity, tolerance in relation to impurities, high lipid content in cells and limited competition with food crops (in algae cultivation arable lands are not required), hence it does not have a negative influence on global food supply [Rahaman et al 2011;Rawat et al 2011;Dębowski et al 2013;Prajapati et al 2013].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Algae Proliferation on Substrates Immersed in Biologically Treated Sewage

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Pulikowski³

et al. 2017

J. Ecol. Eng.

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Due fast biomass production, high affinity for N and P and possibilities to CO 2 sequestration microalgae are currently in the spotlight, especially in renewable energy technologies sector. The majority of studies focus their attention on microalgae cultivation with respect to biomass production. Fuel produced from algal biomass can contribute to reducing consumption of conventional fossil fuels and be a remedy for a rising energy crisis and global warming induced by air pollution. Some authors opt for possibilities of using sewage as a nutrient medium in algae cultivation. Other scientists go one step further and present concepts to introduce microalgal systems as an integral part of wastewater treatment plants. High costs of different microalgal harvesting methods caused introduction of the idea of algae immobilization in a form of periphyton on artificial substrates. In the present study the attention has focused on possibilities of using waste materials as substrates to proliferation of periphyton in biologically treated sewage that contained certain amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus.

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Section: Algae Proliferation On Substrates Immersed In Biologicallymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Algae Proliferation on Substrates Immersed in Biologically Treated Sewage

Garbowski¹,

Bawiec²,

Pulikowski³

et al. 2017

J. Ecol. Eng.

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“…The options for carbon capture vary from solvent-based technologies such as Absorption/desorption using Monoethanolamine (MEA) [46,47], to underdeveloped methods such as oxyfuel combustion [48], membrane separation [49,50], nanomaterial sorbents [51] and chemical looping [52,53]. In parallel, intensive research is devoted to CO 2 utilization for producing fuel and products [54], and among them microalgae cultivation has gained significant research interest [55,56].…”

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Integrated biorefineries: CO2 utilization for maximum biomass conversion

Sharifzadeh

Wang

Shah

2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Biomass-derived fuels can contribute to energy sustainability through diversifying energy supply and mitigating carbon emissions. However, the biomass chemistry p`oses an important challenge, i.e., the effective hydrogen to carbon ratio is significantly lower for biomass compared to petroleum, and biomass conversion technologies produce a large amount of carbon dioxide by-product. Therefore, CO2 capture and utilization will be an indispensable element of future biorefineries. The present research explores the economic feasibility and environmental performance of utilizing CO2 from biomass pyrolysis for biodiesel production via microalgae. The results suggest that it is possible to increase biomass to fuel conversion from 55% to 73%. In addition, if subsidies and fuel taxes are included in the economic analysis, the extra produced fuel can compensate the cost of CO2 utilization, and is competitive with petroleum-derived fuels. Finally, the proposed integrated refinery shows promise as CO2 in the flue gas is reduced from 45% of total input carbon to 6% with another 19% in biomass residue waste streams.

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“…Although many techniques and mechanism researches of the application of microalgae in the biological sequestration of industrial flue gas, including microalgae species selection (Ho et al 2011;Seth and Wangikar 2015), gas capture (Rahaman et al 2011), cultivation and influencing factors (Cheah et al 2015;Pires et al 2012), bioreactor technology (Kumar et al 2010;Niu and Leung 2010), biomass applications (e.g., lipid production) and residual biomass utilization (e.g., anaerobic digestion) (Farrelly et al 2013;Pires et al 2012;Seth and Wangikar 2015;Sialve et al 2009), and synergistic combination of other biological techniques (e.g., wastewater treatment) (Acien Fernandez et al 2012;Wang et al 2008), have been extensively studied and reviewed during the past few years, most of the studies have only focused on CO 2 fixation and utilization by algal biomass. In addition, studies on biological DeNOx (bio-DeNOx) of NOx by using microalgae were limited, although capture of NOx from the flue gases for microalgal cultivation has received increasing interest.…”

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An informatics-based analysis of developments to date and prospects for the application of microalgae in the biological sequestration of industrial flue gas

Zhu

Rong

Chen

et al. 2016

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

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The excessive emission of flue gas contributes to air pollution, abnormal climate change, global warming, and sea level rises associated with glacial melting. With the ability to utilize NOx as a nitrogen source and to convert solar energy into chemical energy via CO 2 fixation, microalgae can potentially reduce air pollution and relax global warming, while also enhancing biomass and biofuel production as well as the production of high-value-added products. This informatics-based review analyzes the trends in the related literature and in patent activity to draw conclusions and to offer a prospective view on the developments of microalgae for industrial flue gas biosequestration. It is revealed that in recent years, microalgal research for industrial flue gas biosequestration has started to attract increasing attention and has now developed into a hot research topic, although it is still at a relatively early stage, and needs more financial and policy support in order to better understand microalgae and to develop an economically viable process. In comparison with onsite microalgal CO 2 capture, microalgae-based biological DeNOx appears to be a more realistic and attractive alternative that could be applied to NOx treatment.

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A review of carbon dioxide capture and utilization by membrane integrated microalgal cultivation processes

Cited by 90 publications

References 111 publications

Algae Proliferation on Substrates Immersed in Biologically Treated Sewage

Algae Proliferation on Substrates Immersed in Biologically Treated Sewage

Integrated biorefineries: CO2 utilization for maximum biomass conversion

An informatics-based analysis of developments to date and prospects for the application of microalgae in the biological sequestration of industrial flue gas

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