Reducing microalgae harvesting costs using electrocoagulation

0522992 - ÚCHP 2020 HU eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Lucáková, Simona - Brányiková, Irena - Růžička, Marek
Reducing microalgae harvesting costs using electrocoagulation.
Book of Abstracts. -: -, 2019.
[Symposium on Microalgae and Seaweed Products in Plant/Soil-Systems /9./. Mosonmagyaróvár (HU), 25.06.2019-26.06.2019]
R&D Projects: GA TA ČR(CZ) TJ01000297
Institutional support: RVO:67985858
Keywords : chlorella * biomass separation * microalgae * electrocoagulation
OECD category: Industrial biotechnology

This study is focused on harvesting of Chlorella vulgaris, well known phototrophic single-celled microalga with wide range of use in nutrition, health care, cosmetics and potential in biofuels production. Due to low harvesting densities of phototrophic microalgae (in case of Chlorella vulgaris they are usually in range 0.5-5 g/L) is harvesting one of the most expensive parts of the Chlorella biomass production. It was estimated that harvesting costs make up approximately 40 % of the biomass production costs. The aim of this study is to evaluate a new pre-harvesting method for reducing the cost of Chlorella harvesting in large scale.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0307399