ArticleMicrobial cell factories2025
Optimising Chlorella vulgaris bioflocculation by Aspergillus Niger pellets and their application in wastewater treatment and lipid production.
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- Current Characterization Techniques Applied to Microalgae-Fungal Pellets: Unraveling the Mechanisms of Adhesion and Stability Focused on Nutrient Recovery/Recycling and Bioprocess Diversification.Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2026Review
- Multidimensional interaction mechanisms and engineering applications of microalgae-fungal microorganism symbiotic systems.AIMS microbiology · 2026Review
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Abstract
backgroundCo-culturing filamentous fungi with microalgae is thought to be a viable method for effective microalgae bioflocculation. Using filamentous fungus makes it possible to produce big, flocculated pellets without adding extra chemicals, which facilitates a variety of uses for the collected biomass. This strategy is popular since it is economical and ecologically beneficial. Most studies examine the two main bio-flocculation strategies to collect microalgae, which are assisted by fungi's spores or pellets, and their importance in wastewater treatment.
resultsFungal pellet formation for algal harvesting and wastewater treatment is critically influenced by temperature, glucose concentration, pH, spore suspension concentration, and their interaction, resulting in large pellets (5-28 mm diameter) and achieving 100% algal flocculation efficiency within 18 h under optimized conditions at 26 °C,110 rpm. Depending on the fungal pellets' biovolume cm
conclusionsFungal preformed pellets may have a better chance of forming into an efficient bio-flocculation method to harvest microalgae than the fungal spore-assisted approach, which takes a long time, produces a small number of pellets or loose pellets that lack shape or structure, and sometimes growth appears as deposits, also turning algal growth into a yellow color. The pellet-assisted technique shows excellent ability to remove phosphate and ammonium from wastewater. A suitable biovolume must be considered to achieve ideal treatment in wastewater remediation, and adding glucose can improve overall effectiveness.
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