Lanthanides are biologically non-essential elements with wide applications in technology and industry. Their concentration as environmental contaminants is, therefore, increasing. Although non-essential, lanthanides have been proposed (and even used) to produce beneficial effects in plants, even though their mechanisms of action are unclear. Recently, it was suggested that they may replace esse...

1 Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø, Norway, 2 Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 3 Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, USA, 4 Key Laboratory of East China Sea and Oceanic Fishery Resources Exploitation, East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Shanghai, China

The present study evaluates the removal capacity of microalgae photobioreactors environmental pollutants in wastewater from dry riverbed El Albujón, as a way to minimize eutrophication process Mar Menor. Particularly, four autochthonous consortia collected different locations salty lagoon remove emerging contaminants (simazine, atrazine, terbuthylazine, adenosine and ibuprofen), nitrates, phosp...

Taxonomy and classification of freshwater algae is highly dependent on morpho-taxonomic characterization molecular genetic techniques. However, these methods are considered time- consuming tedious. This study was conducted to integrate the latest technological innovations digital image processing machine learning in developing an automated detection, recognition, identification selected algal s...

Microalgae oil accumulation in their natural growing states hardly reaches the quantities needed to replace fossil-derived diesel. Therefore, for algae be used as biofuel feedstock, growths are manipulated with aim of achieving high cell density and lipid accumulation. Two major factors affecting microalgal biomass productivity light intensity photoperiod. In present study, Desmodesmus subspica...

Microalgal biomass can be used for biodiesel, feed, and food production. Collection and identification of local microalgal strains in the Northern Territory, Australia was conducted to identify strains with high protein and lipid contents as potential feedstock for animal feed and biodiesel production, respectively. A total of 36 strains were isolated from 13 samples collected from a variety of...

The present work deals with the production of hydrocarbons in C5–C12 range obtained from fast micropyrolysis a laboratory-grown Desmodesmus sp. microalgae. It compares properties this specific fraction using or not transition alumina catalysts during pyrolysis experiments both pure dried microalgae and its n-hexane extract. were characterised thermogravimetry (TG) CHN analysis; extract was anal...