藻类在应对全球可持续性挑战方面的多功能性
Bishnu Dev Das1, Ajaya Bhattarai2
1Department of Botany, Mahendra Morang Adarsh Multiple Campus, Biratnagar (Tribhuvan University), Biratnagar, Nepal.
Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology
|October 17, 2025
概括
藻类为气候变化和资源枯竭等全球挑战提供可持续的解决方案. 生物技术创新在废水整治,生物能源和气候智能农业方面显示出前景,尽管成本和可扩展性障碍仍然存在.
科学领域:
- 生物技术和藻类科学 生物技术和藻类科学
- 环境科学与可持续发展
- 循环生物经济是一个循环的生物经济.
背景情况:
- 藻类是解决全球问题的一种多功能资源:资源枯竭,环境退化,粮食安全,气候变化和能源.
- 关键的藻类物种如Chlorella,Nannochloropsis,Botryococcus和Spirulina在生物质生产,碳封存,营养物质回收和生物能源产生方面表现出色.
研究的目的:
- 审查废水整治,生物柴油生产和循环生物经济战略的藻类应用方面的进展.
- 评估工业废物流 (屠宰场废水,原油糖醇) 在藻类培养中的整合.
- 突出藻类在气候智能农业中的作用,特别是减少甲排放.
主要方法:
- 评估关于藻类生物技术及其应用的最新科学文献.
- 分析使用工业废物流培养藻类的案例研究.
- 评估大藻对畜牧业甲排放的影响.
主要成果:
- 克洛雷拉索罗基尼亚纳 (Chlorella sorokiniana) 显示出使用屠宰场废水消化剂 (AWD) 进行植物修复和生物柴油生产的巨大潜力.
- 通过微生物和昆虫系统对原始甘油的价值化支持低碳生物经济.
- 大藻类 (Asparagopsis taxiformis) 显著减少了牲畜的肠道甲排放.
结论:
- 藻类技术为可持续发展,更清洁的能源,更健康的生态系统和弹性食品系统提供了巨大的潜力.
- 需要解决可扩展性,经济可行性,生产成本,加工能源,污染和法规方面的挑战.
- 有针对性的研究,流程优化和支持性的政策框架对于充分实现藻类的潜力至关重要.
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