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from wastewaters using microalgae. Front Sustain Food Syst 2:1–13
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Environ Res 79:2477–2486
65. González C, Marciniak J, Villaverde S et al (2008) Efficient nutrient removal from swine
manure in a tubular biofilm photo-bioreactor using algae-bacteria consortia. Water Sci
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energy saving in a microalgal-bacterial consortium treating real municipal wastewater. Water
Sci Technol 78:174–182
50. García D, de Godos I, Domínguez C et al (2019) A systematic comparison of the potential of
microalgae-bacteria and purple phototrophic bacteria consortia for the treatment of piggery
wastewater. Bioresour Technol 276:18–27
51. López-Serna R, García D, Bolado S et al (2019) Photobioreactors based on
microalgae-bacteria and purple phototrophic bacteria consortia: a promising technology to
reduce the load of veterinary drugs from piggery wastewater. Sci Total Environ 692:259–
266
52. De las Heras I, Molina R, Segura Y et al (2020) Contamination of N-poor wastewater with
emerging pollutants does not affect the performance of purple phototrophic bacteria and the
subsequent resource recovery potential. J Hazard Mater 385:121617
53. Talaiekhozani A, Rezania S (2017) Application of photosynthetic bacteria for removal of
heavy metals, macro-pollutants and dye from wastewater: a review. J Water Process Eng
19:312–321
54. Cao K, Zhi R, Zhang G (2020) Photosynthetic bacteria wastewater treatment with the
production of value-added products: a review. Bioresour Technol 299:122648
55. Fradinho JC, Oehmen A, Reis MAM (2019) Improving polyhydroxyalkanoates production
in phototrophic mixed cultures by optimizing accumulator reactor operating conditions. Int J
Biol Macromol 126:1085–1092
56. Hülsen T, Hsieh K, Lu Y et al (2018) Simultaneous treatment and single cell protein
production from agri-industrial wastewaters using purple phototrophic bacteria or microalgae—a comparison. Bioresour Technol 254:214–223
57. Puyol D, Monsalvo VM, Marin E et al (2020) Purple phototrophic bacteria as a platform to
create the next generation of wastewater treatment plants: energy and resource recovery. In:
Olivares JA, Puyol D, Melero JA, Dufour J (eds) Wastewater treatment residues as resources
for biorefinery products and biofuels. Elsevier, pp 255–280.
58. Solovchenko A, Verschoor AM, Jablonowski ND, Nedbal L (2016) Phosphorus from
wastewater to crops: an alternative path involving microalgae. Biotechnol Adv 34:550–564
59. van Dijk KC, Lesschen JP, Oenema O (2016) Phosphorus flows and balances of the
European Union Member States. Sci Total Environ 542:1078–1093
60. Crini G, Lichtfouse E (2019) Advantages and disadvantages of techniques used for
wastewater treatment. Environ Chem Lett 17:145–155
61. Acién Fernández FG, Gómez-Serrano C, Fernández-Sevilla JM (2018) Recovery of nutrients
from wastewaters using microalgae. Front Sustain Food Syst 2:1–13
62. Bhatnagar A, Sillanpää M (2011) A review of emerging adsorbents for nitrate removal from
water. Chem Eng J 168:493–504
63. Yuan Z, Pratt S, Batstone DJ (2012) Phosphorus recovery from wastewater through
microbial processes. Curr Opin Biotechnol 23:878–883
64. Oehmen A, Zeng RJ, Keller J, Yuan Z (2007) Modeling the aerobic metabolism of
polyphosphate-accumulating organisms enriched with propionate as a carbon source. Water
Environ Res 79:2477–2486
65. González C, Marciniak J, Villaverde S et al (2008) Efficient nutrient removal from swine
manure in a tubular biofilm photo-bioreactor using algae-bacteria consortia. Water Sci
Technol 58:95–102
66. Su Y, Mennerich A, Urban B (2011) Municipal wastewater treatment and biomass
accumulation with a wastewater-born and settleable algal-bacterial culture. Water Res
45:3351–3358
67. Mukherjee C, Chowdhury R, Ray K (2015) Phosphorus recycling from an unexplored
source by polyphosphate accumulating microalgae and cyanobacteria-a step to phosphorus
security in agriculture. Front Microbiol 6:1–7
436
J. C. Fradinho et al.