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Potential of Porous Substrate Bioreactors for Removal of Pollutants from Wastewater Using Microalgae
Dora Allegra Carbone1, Michael Melkonian2
1Laboratory of Biological Oceanography, Stazione Zoologica "A. Dohrn", Villa Comunale, 80121 Naples, Italy.
Abstract:
Porous substrate bioreactors (PSBRs) are a new technology to grow microalgae immobilized in a dense culture and solve some problems linked to suspended cultivation. During recent years, this technology has been used in laboratory and pilot setups in different fields of environmental biotechnology, such as wastewater treatment. The aim of this short review is to introduce the PSBR technology, summarize the results obtained in removing some pollutants from wastewater, provide an assessment of the potential of PSBRs for wastewater treatment, and the subsequent use of the algal biomass for other purposes.
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