Utilization of centrate from wastewater treatment for the outdoor production of Nannochloropsis gaditana biomass at pilot-scale
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Ledda, Claudio; Romero Villegas, Gabriel Ivan; Adani, Fabrizio; Acién Fernández, Francisco Gabriel; Molina Grima, EmilioFecha
2015Resumen
In this work, the outdoor pilot-scale production of marine microalga Nannochloropsis gaditana using centrate from the anaerobic digestion of municipal wastewater was evaluated. For this, outdoor continuous cultures were performed in both tubular and raceways reactors mixing seawater with different centrate percentages (15%, 20% and 30%) as culture medium. It was demonstrated that N. gaditana can be produced using centrate as the only nutrients source but at percentages below 30%. At this level inhibition was caused by an excess of ammonium in both photobioreactors, as confirmed by chlorophyll fluorescence and average irradiance data, thus reducing productivity. At 15% and 20% centrate percentages, biomass productivity was equal to that measured when using Algal culture medium, of 0.48 and 0.10 g·l-1·day-1 for tubular and raceway reactors respectively. During the experiments nitrogen depuration decreased from 85% to 63% in tubular reactors with the increase of centrate percentage in cul...
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Nannochloropsis gaditana; centrate from anaerobic digestion; nitrogen removal; phosphorus limitation; tubular and raceway photobioreactors