Self-Flocculation as an Efficient Method to Harvest Microalgae: A Mini-Review

The development of clean and renewable biofuels has been wide concern on the topic energy environmental issues. As a kind biomass with great application prospects, microalgae have many advantages are used in fields protection as well food or feed production for humans animals. However, high cost harvesting is main bottleneck industrial large scale. Self-flocculation cost-efficient promising method microalgal biomass. This article briefly describes current commonly technology harvesting, focusing research progress self-flocculation. explores relative mechanisms influencing factors self-flocculation discusses proposal integration algae cultivation co-cultivation bacteria an effort to provide reference efficiency low cost.