“…According to recent studies, the generated amount of lipid-extracted microalgae biomass is estimated to be thrice the amount of biodiesel produced and it is assumed that microalgal biomass extraction yields 25% oil [59]. Even after lipid extraction for biodiesel production, LEMB contains a considerable amount of nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, nitrate, phosphates, glucose, arabinose, xylose and other micronutrients [58,59]. In order to achieve the zero-waste approach in a microalgae refinery, Mishra and Mohanty [57] have shown that the comprehensive characterization of LEMB derived from wastewater-treated microalgae (wastewater as a growth medium) was found to contain carbon 47.04%, hydrogen 7.29%, nitrogen 6.6%, sulfur 0.16%, and oxygen 38.91%, while the elemental composition of the BG11-derived LEMB contained carbon 50.18%, hydrogen 7.51%, nitrogen 6.3%, sulfur 0.11%, and oxygen 35.9%, respectively.…”