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Simultaneous treatment of food-waste recycling wastewater and cultivation of Tetraselmis suecica for biodiesel production

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There is an increasing interest in the use of cultivated microalgae to simultaneously produce biodiesel and remove nutrients from various wastewaters. For this purpose, Tetraselmis suecica was cultivated in flasks and fermenters using diluted food-waste recycling wastewater (FRW). The effect of FRW dilution on T. suecica growth and nutrient removal was initially tested in flasks. The maximal microalgal concentration after 14 days was in medium with a twofold dilution (28.3 × 106 cells/mL) and a fivefold dilution (25.5 × 106 cells/mL). When fivefold diluted medium was used in fermenters, the final dry cell weight of T. suecica was 2.0 g/L. The removal efficiencies of ammonium and phosphate in the fermenters were 99.0 and 52.3 %, respectively. In comparison with the results of previous studies, the growth data of T. suecica in the FRW medium indicate that microalgal cultivation system incorporating removal of nutrients in FRW is feasible at the field level.

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This work was supported by the Advanced Biomass R&D Center (ABC) of Korea Grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (ABC-2010-0029728).

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  1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, 291 Daehakno, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea

    Sung-Woon Heo, Kibok Nam, Woong Kim & Ji-Won Yang

  2. Environmental and Energy Program, KAIST, 291 Daehakno, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea

    Byung-Gon Ryu

  3. Advanced Biomass R&D Center, KAIST, 291 Daehakno, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea

    Ji-Won Yang

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Heo, SW., Ryu, BG., Nam, K. et al. Simultaneous treatment of food-waste recycling wastewater and cultivation of Tetraselmis suecica for biodiesel production. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 38, 1393–1398 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-015-1380-0

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