Integrated Wastewater Management and Valorization using Algal Cultures

1st Edition - March 24, 2022
Editors: Goksel N. Demirer, Sibel Uludag-Demirer
Language: English
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Integrated Wastewater Management and Valorization using Algal Cultures provides a holistic view on coupled wastewater treatment and biomass production for energy and value-added products using algal cultures. Algal cultures provide low-cost nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) treatment and recovery from wastewaters, carbon-dioxide sequestration from waste gases, value-added generation in the form of bio-energy and bio-based chemicals, biosorption of heavy metals and biogas upgrading. The book addresses all these aspects in terms of role of algal cultures in environmental sustainability and circular economy. The production of high value products is addressed through pretreatment and anaerobic co-digestion of wastewater-derived microalgal biomass and microalgal biorefineries. The simultaneous dissolution and uptake of nutrients in microalgal treatment of anaerobic digestate is discussed, as is coupled electrocoagulation and algal cultivation for the treatment of anaerobic digestate and algal biomass production. Finally, optimization of algal biomass production is discussed using metagenomics and machine learning tools, and scale-up potential and the limitations of integrated wastewater-derived microalgal biorefineries is discussed.

Integrated Wastewater Management and Valorization using Algal Cultures offers an integrated resource on wastewater treatment, biomass production, bioenergy and value-added product generation for researchers in bioenergy and renewable energy, environmental science and wastewater treatment, as well as environmental and chemical engineering.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1. Role of microalgae in circular economy
1. Background: circular economy and waste valorization
2. Conceptual framework: potential role of microalgae in the circular economy
3. Techno-economic feasibility: scale-up potential and limitations of integrated wastewater-derived microalgal biorefineries
4. Conclusions
Chapter 2. Recent advancements in algae–bacteria consortia for the treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Algae in biological treatment of wastewater
3. Mechanism of symbiosis between algae and bacteria
4. Examples of wastewater treatment by algae–bacteria consortia
5. Circular economy, process design, and modeling aspects of algae–bacteria based wastewater treatment
6. Conclusions
Chapter 3. Integrated algal-based sewage treatment and resource recovery system
1. Introduction
2. Details of the STaRR system
3. Performance of the STaRR system
4. Outlook
Chapter 4. Microalgae-based technologies for circular wastewater treatment
1. Introduction to circular wastewater treatment
2. Microalgae use for circularity
3. Microalgae-based technologies for wastewater treatment
4. Conclusions and perspectives
Chapter 5. Treatment of anaerobic digestion effluents by microalgal cultures
1. Introduction
2. Treatment of digestates by microalgal cultures
3. Microalgal growth in digestates
4. Challenges and potential remedies for digestate treatment by microalgae
5. Pilot scale plants
6. Outcomes of techno-economic and life cycle assessment analysis
7. Conclusions
Chapter 6. Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of algal cultivation on liquid anaerobic digestion effluent for algal biomass production and wastewater treatment
1. Introduction
2. Material and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 7. Biomethane production from algae biomass cultivated in wastewater
1. Introduction
2. Material and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 8. Anaerobic digester biogas upgrading using microalgae
1. Introduction
2. Raw biogas characteristics
3. Required gas quality for heat and power equipment
4. Current commercial biogas conditioning technologies
5. Novel microalgae biogas conditioning technology
6. Benefits of algae biogas upgrading
7. Limitations of algae biogas upgrading systems
8. Potential carbon and nutrient sources for algae
9. Algal bioreactor configurations and operations
10. Biogas constituents removed
11. Algal reactor products utilization and management
12. Conclusions and recommendations for future research
Chapter 9. Large-scale demonstration of microalgae-based wastewater biorefineries
1. Introduction
2. Wastewater versus seawater as culture medium
3. Large-scale raceway ponds construction
4. Microalgae consortium
5. Harvesting process
6. Potential WWT using microalgae at large scale
7. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Cultivation of microalgae on agricultural wastewater for recycling energy, water, and fertilizer nutrients
1. Introduction
2. Microalgae for agricultural wastewater treatment
3. Microalgae for feeds, fuels, and fertilizers
4. Microalgae cultivation systems
5. Challenges of resource recovery using microalgae cultivation in wastewater
6. Enhancement of microalgae cultivation in wastewater
7. Conclusions
Index

Goksel N. Demirer

Dr. Goksel N. Demirer is a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Technology at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA. He has been a visiting professor at Tuzla University (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Washington State University (Pullman, WA), RMIT University (Australia), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Villanova University (Villanova, PA), and Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI). He has been working on anaerobic and algal environmental biotechnology, waste valorization, resource efficiency, sustainability, pollution prevention, and industrial ecology for over 20 years.

Affiliations and expertise

Faculty Member, School of Engineering and Technology at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA

Sibel Uludag-Demirer

Dr. Sibel Uludag-Demirer is research specialist in the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department and manager of the Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC) at Michigan State University, Michigan, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University (Tennessee, USA), Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Uludag-Demirer has been a visiting professor in RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and Washington State University (Pullman, WA). She worked in Villanova University (Villanova, PA) as a Marie-Curie Fellow and Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) as a lecturer. Her research interests are wastewater treatment, and recovery of valuables from waste using biological and chemical techniques. She has worked on algal biotechnology related research since 2014 with a focus of N and P removal from different waste streams and CO2 capture from flue gas using algae cultures.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Specialist, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department and Manager of the Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC) at Michigan State University, Michigan, USA.