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Bioremediation of Contaminated Soil by Microalgae and Its Importance in Biofuel Production

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Microalgae can grow rapidly in all moistening locations and pick up harmful chemical compounds from the soil environment. The soil ecosystem is highly contaminated by human activity comprising urbanization, herbicides, various dyes, and hazardous chemical compounds. So, the dangerous chemicals were favorably impacted by groundwater and the food chain. In many scientific works of literature, the solution to soil pollution and the role of microalgae cultivation have been documented day by day. The best way to extract the toxins from the soil ecosystem is to cultivate microalgae. In a sewage like polluted soil environment containing toxic contaminants, heavy metals, and some of the non-degraded particles that are absorbed by microalgae and release O2 via their oxygenic photosynthetic process, degrade the toxic pollutants and the microalgal biomass thus produced can be used for biodiesel production, microalgae in general and extremophilic microalgae, in particular, grow well. In this chapter, we examine the removal of toxic chemical compounds from the soil environment using the cultivation of microalgae and the production of biofuel from algal oil for the next generation. The biofuel reduces air pollution and can be generated quickly.

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Seenivasan, H.K., Moola, A.K., Thajuddin, N. (2022). Bioremediation of Contaminated Soil by Microalgae and Its Importance in Biofuel Production. In: Malik, J.A. (eds) Microbial and Biotechnological Interventions in Bioremediation and Phytoremediation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08830-8_8

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