The production of biofuel and bioelectricity associated with wastewater treatment by green algae

Jyoti Prakash Maity, Chia-Peng Hou, Dip Majumder, Jochen Bundschuh, Thomas R. Kulp, Chien-Yen Chen, Lu-Te Chuang, Ching-Nen Nathan Chen, Jiin-Shuh Jean, Tsui-Chu Yang and Chien-Cheng Chen

Energy, 2014, vol. 78, issue C, 94-103

Abstract: This study describes algal biofuel production, bioelectricity generation and wastewater treatment using Leptolyngbya sp. JPMTW1 (KF977831). The experiments were conducted in an AMFC (Algal Microbial Fuel Cell) photobioreactor (single-chamber). The pH, EC (electrical conductivity), COD (chemical oxygen demand) and TDS (total dissolved solids) decreased from 8.01 to 7.0, 982 to 854 (mS/cm), 255 to 112 (mg/L) and 490–427 (mg/L), respectively, over course of 7 days. Biomass production, rate of biomass production, chlorophyll a, b and “total chlorophyll” content increased with increasing time and were observed to be 3300 mg/L, 471.42 mg/L/day, 0.981 mg/L, 0.173 mg/L and 1.156 mg/L after 7 days. Lipid production and rate of lipid production were 1068.383 mg/g dry wt. biomass and 152.62 mg/g dry biomass/day. FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) spectra revealed the presence of protein, lipid, FAs (fatty acids), triglycerides and ester functional groups. FAME (fatty acid methyl esters) profile revealed the presence of C16:0, C18:2n-6, C18:1 and C16:1. The generation of electric potential by Leptolyngbya sp. JPMTW1 increased significantly (p ≤ 0.05) from 0.0211 to 0.264 mV within 7 days. The maximum power density (0.008 mW/cm2) was obtained at cell potential at 12 mV. This study shows that simultaneous production of biofuel, bioelectricity and wastewater treatment is possible by Leptolyngbya sp. JPMTW1.

Keywords: Microalgae; FAME; Biofuel; Power generation; Wastewater treatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.06.023

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