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Current Techniques of Growing Algae Using Flue Gas from Exhaust Gas Industry: a Review

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology volume 178, pages 1220–1238 (2016)Cite this article

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The soaring increase of flue gas emission had caused global warming, environmental pollution as well as climate change. Widespread concern on reduction of flue gas released from industrial plants had considered the microalgae as excellent biological materials for recycling the carbon dioxide directly emitted from exhaust industries. Microalgae also have the potential to be the valuable feedback for renewable energy production due to their high growth rate and abilities to sequester inorganic carbon through photosynthetic process. In this review article, we will illustrate important relative mechanisms in the metabolic processes of biofixation by microalgae and their recent experimental researches and advances of sequestration of carbon dioxide by microalgae on actual industrial and stimulate flue gases, novel photobioreactor cultivation systems as well as the perspectives and limitations of microalgal cultivation in further development.

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This project was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2013QNA13), and this work was also sponsored by the scientific research foundation of key laboratory of Coal-based CO2 capture and geological storage, Jiangsu province (China university of mining and technology) (No. 2015B01)

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Huang, G., Chen, F., Kuang, Y. et al. Current Techniques of Growing Algae Using Flue Gas from Exhaust Gas Industry: a Review. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 178, 1220–1238 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-015-1940-4

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  • Flue gas
  • Microalgae
  • CO2 sequestration
  • Tolerant mechanism
  • Biomass production