Table 5
(continued)
Target
compound
Substrate
System/conditions
Downstream
processing
Production Scale
Market
situation
Algae
References
Lipids
(biodiesel)
Residual
biomass
Mixed municipal
and industrial
wastewater
Laboratory tubes
Drying, lipids
extraction through
Folch method
Laboratory-scale
–
Scenedesmus
sp.
Gentili (2014)
Residual
biomass
(agricultural or
food industry)
Hydrogen
Residual biomass
for dark
fermentation and
wastewater for
algae culture
PBR and anaerobic
digester for dark
fermentation
PBR
(photo-fermentation)
Anaerobic
digestion (dark
fermentation)
Laboratory-scale
–
Chlamydomonas
reinhardtii
Scenedesmus
obliquus
Chlorococcum
littorale
Platymonas
subcordiformis
Chlorella fusca
Kapdan and Kargi
(2006)
Organic acids
Microalgal biomass
used as substrate
Incubator chamber
Alkaline
pre-treatment,
enzymatic
saccharification
and anaerobic
digestion with
Clostridium
Laboratory
–
Chlorella
sp. and
Tetraselmis
suecica
Kassim and Meng
(2017)
High-value
microalgae
products,
fertilizer, and
biogas
Secondary streams
from pulp and
paper industry
Conceptual configuration, liquid effluent
from the mechanical dewatering of
digested residues and
flue gases from
biomass boiler at the mill
Conceptual
biorefinery
CO
2
Wastewater
–
Nannochloropsis
Kouhia et al.
(2015)
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