TY - JOUR
T1 - Biosequestration of atmospheric CO2 and flue gas-containing CO2 by microalgae
AU - Cheah, Wai Yan
AU - Show, Pau Loke
AU - Chang, Jo Shu
AU - Ling, Tau Chuan
AU - Juan, Joon Ching
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported financially by SATU Joint Research Scheme (RU022E-2014) and UMRG grant (RP025A-14AET) from University of Malaya , Malaysia’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FP054-2013B and FRGS/1/2013/SG05/UNIM/02/1), Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation (SF016-2013 and MOSTI-02-02-12-SF0256), Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 103-3113-E-006-006 and MOST 103-2221-E-006-190-MY3) and Taiwan’s Ministry of Education on Top University Grants.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - The unceasing rise of greenhouse gas emission has led to global warming and climate change. Global concern on this phenomenon has put forward the microalgal-based CO2 sequestration aiming to sequester carbon back to the biosphere, ultimately reducing greenhouse effects. Microalgae have recently gained enormous attention worldwide, to be the valuable feedstock for renewable energy production, due to their high growth rates, high lipid productivities and the ability to sequester carbon. The photosynthetic process of microalgae uses atmospheric CO2 and CO2 from flue gases, to synthesize nutrients for their growth. In this review article, we will primarily discuss the efficiency of CO2 biosequestration by microalgae species, factors influencing microalgal biomass productions, microalgal cultivation systems, the potential and limitations of using flue gas for microalgal cultivation as well as the bio-refinery approach of microalgal biomass.
AB - The unceasing rise of greenhouse gas emission has led to global warming and climate change. Global concern on this phenomenon has put forward the microalgal-based CO2 sequestration aiming to sequester carbon back to the biosphere, ultimately reducing greenhouse effects. Microalgae have recently gained enormous attention worldwide, to be the valuable feedstock for renewable energy production, due to their high growth rates, high lipid productivities and the ability to sequester carbon. The photosynthetic process of microalgae uses atmospheric CO2 and CO2 from flue gases, to synthesize nutrients for their growth. In this review article, we will primarily discuss the efficiency of CO2 biosequestration by microalgae species, factors influencing microalgal biomass productions, microalgal cultivation systems, the potential and limitations of using flue gas for microalgal cultivation as well as the bio-refinery approach of microalgal biomass.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.11.026
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.11.026
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25497054
AN - SCOPUS:84928342088
SN - 0960-8524
VL - 184
SP - 190
EP - 201
JO - Bioresource technology
JF - Bioresource technology
ER -