A Review on Microalgae to Achieve Maximal Carbon Dioxide (CO 2 ) Mitigation from Industrial Flue Gases (original) (raw)
Global climate change and atmospheric CO 2 levels are increasing in the last decades mainly due to the rise in anthropogenic emissions. Point source emissions of CO 2 from power plants during industrialized process accounts much for this increase. An attractive approach for offsetting emissions is direct biofixation of CO 2 from flue gas through microalgae. Flue gas is fully utilized as resource to cultivate microalgae in order to moderate anthropogenic effect on our climate and for steer microalgal resource management towards innovative applications of microalgal biomass compounds. Treated and untreated flue gas into current discharge standard contains CO 2 , NO x , SO x , particulate matter, halogen acids and heavy metals. All these compounds are considered to better steer and engineered flue gas-fed microalgal cultures. This review gives an overview of effect on photochemical, physiochemical and hydrodynamic process on the performance of microalgal-CO 2 fixation and biomass production. It is important to select suitable microalgae strains having a high growth rate, high CO 2 fixation ability and being easily cultivated on large scale to gain high biomass yield and valuable by-products to offset the costs of carbon mitigation.
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