TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategies and advances in the pretreatment of microalgal biomass
AU - Sirohi, Ranjna
AU - Ummalyma, Sabeela Beevi
AU - Sagar, Narashans Alok
AU - Sharma, Pooja
AU - Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar
AU - Badgujar, Prarabdh C.
AU - Madhavan, Aravind
AU - Rajasekharan, Reshmy
AU - Sindhu, Raveendran
AU - Sim, Sang Jun
AU - Pandey, Ashok
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was also supported by “ Carbon to X Project ” ( #2020M3H7A1098295 ), the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea and a grant from the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) ( #20172010202050 ).
Funding Information:
N. Alok Sagar would like to thank the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for providing financial support in the form of Senior Fellow in Food Safety and Nutrition (SFFaN), Biological Group, under the national project NetSCoFAN.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/11/20
Y1 - 2021/11/20
N2 - Modification of structural components, especially the cell wall, through adequate pretreatment strategies is critical to the bioconversion efficiency of algal biomass to biorefinery products. Over the years, several physical, physicochemical, chemical and green pretreatment methods have been developed to achieve maximum productivity of desirable by-products to sustain a circular bioeconomy. The effectiveness of the pretreatment methods is however, species specific due to diversity in the innate nature of the microalgal cell wall. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the most notable and promising pretreatment strategies for several microalgae species. Methods including the application of stress, ultrasound, electromagnetic fields, pressure, heat as well as chemical solvents (ionic liquids, supercritical fluids, deep eutectic solvents etc.) have been detailed and analyzed. Enzyme and hydrolytic microorganism based green pretreatment methods have also been reviewed. Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for product specificity and lower inhibitors can be a future breakthrough in microalgal pretreatment.
AB - Modification of structural components, especially the cell wall, through adequate pretreatment strategies is critical to the bioconversion efficiency of algal biomass to biorefinery products. Over the years, several physical, physicochemical, chemical and green pretreatment methods have been developed to achieve maximum productivity of desirable by-products to sustain a circular bioeconomy. The effectiveness of the pretreatment methods is however, species specific due to diversity in the innate nature of the microalgal cell wall. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the most notable and promising pretreatment strategies for several microalgae species. Methods including the application of stress, ultrasound, electromagnetic fields, pressure, heat as well as chemical solvents (ionic liquids, supercritical fluids, deep eutectic solvents etc.) have been detailed and analyzed. Enzyme and hydrolytic microorganism based green pretreatment methods have also been reviewed. Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for product specificity and lower inhibitors can be a future breakthrough in microalgal pretreatment.
KW - Deep eutectic solvents
KW - Electromagnetic treatment
KW - Green pretreatment
KW - Ionic liquids
KW - Ultrasound
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2021.09.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2021.09.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 34537253
AN - SCOPUS:85115629268
VL - 341
SP - 63
EP - 75
JO - Journal of Biotechnology
JF - Journal of Biotechnology
SN - 0168-1656
ER -