Continuous design and economic analysis of a Sargassum muticum biorefinery process

Sustainable enhancement of biogas and methane yield of macroalgae biomass using different pretreatment techniques: A mini-review

“…But using the digestate from the process as organic fertilizer was more economical during the alternative study. 7 The subsequent anaerobic digestion might be improved with noticeably higher biogas and methane yield if the biological pretreatment was chosen appropriately for a given feedstock and its application was optimized. Because of the maturing or cost-effective processes, full-scale biological pretreatment of macroalgae is not yet commonly used, but due to its intrinsic benefits, biological pretreatments continue to be a promising technique to increase the biogas and methane yield of macroalgae.…”

“…The third generational feedstock for biorefineries, which can be transform into various biobased products like biofuels, includes the plant-like organism known as algae. 7 Biogas, biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen, bio-oil, and biobutanol are some of the biorefinery products of algae. 8 Algal can be classified into two major types using their cellularity: microalgae and macroalgae.…”

Valorisation of Sargassum muticum through the extraction of phenolic compounds using eutectic solvents and intensification techniques

“…Although Reichardt's dye 30 is the probe typically used, in the case of acidic solvents, such as the case of some of the present ESs, Reichardt's dye 33 should be used instead. The E T (33) values were converted into E T (30) according to the following eqn (5).…”

“…3 Seaweeds are naturally abundant and do not present competition for food, while producing several biologically active secondary metabolites of great interest. 4,5 Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt is a brown macroalga native to Japan which has spread all over the world. It was reported for the rst time in Europe in 1973 and currently, it is considered invasive on the European coast.…”

“…6 S. muticum has high colonizing potential and its high dispersion is due to the high growth rates, high fecundity, and self-fertilization. 5 This brown seaweed is considered invasive since it may negatively affect some marine environments. Even though several efforts were made to control the invasion of this species, none were successfully and thus, its removal through harvesting is ordered.…”