TY - JOUR
T1 - Mass cultivation and harvesting of microalgal biomass
T2 - Current trends and future perspectives
AU - Udayan, Aswathy
AU - Sirohi, Ranjna
AU - Sreekumar, Nidhin
AU - Sang, Byoung In
AU - Sim, Sang Jun
N1 - Funding Information:
The corresponding author acknowledges the financial support by “Carbon to X Project” (#2020M3H7A1098295), the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea, a grant (#NRF-2019R1A2C3009821/2020R1A5A1018052) from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).
Funding Information:
The corresponding author acknowledges the financial support by “ Carbon to X Project ” ( #2020M3H7A1098295 ), the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT , Republic of Korea, a grant ( #NRF-2019R1A2C3009821/2020R1A5A1018052 ) from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Microalgae are unicellular photosynthetic organisms capable of producing high-value metabolites like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, pigments, and other high-value metabolites. Microalgal biomass gained more interest for the production of nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, food supplements, feed, biofuel, bio-fertilizers, etc. due to its high lipid and other high-value metabolite content. Microalgal biomass has the potential to convert trapped solar energy to organic materials and potential metabolites of nutraceutical and industrial interest. They have higher efficiency to fix carbon dioxide (CO2) and subsequently convert it into biomass and compounds of potential interest. However, to make microalgae a potential industrial candidate, cost-effective cultivation systems and harvesting methods for increasing biomass yield and reducing the cost of downstream processing have become extremely urgent and important. In this review, the current development in different microalgal cultivation systems and harvesting methods has been discussed.
AB - Microalgae are unicellular photosynthetic organisms capable of producing high-value metabolites like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, pigments, and other high-value metabolites. Microalgal biomass gained more interest for the production of nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, food supplements, feed, biofuel, bio-fertilizers, etc. due to its high lipid and other high-value metabolite content. Microalgal biomass has the potential to convert trapped solar energy to organic materials and potential metabolites of nutraceutical and industrial interest. They have higher efficiency to fix carbon dioxide (CO2) and subsequently convert it into biomass and compounds of potential interest. However, to make microalgae a potential industrial candidate, cost-effective cultivation systems and harvesting methods for increasing biomass yield and reducing the cost of downstream processing have become extremely urgent and important. In this review, the current development in different microalgal cultivation systems and harvesting methods has been discussed.
KW - Cultivation
KW - Downstream processing
KW - Harvesting
KW - High-value metabolites
KW - Microalgae
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120845825&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126406
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126406
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34826565
AN - SCOPUS:85120845825
SN - 0960-8524
VL - 344
JO - Bioresource Technology
JF - Bioresource Technology
M1 - 126406
ER -
