Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group, Biological and Biotechnological Applications Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group, Biological and Biotechnological Applications Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, School of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Sci Total Environ. 2019 Feb 15;651(Pt 2):3187-3201. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.355. Epub 2018 Oct 1.
The scientific community has turned its interest to microalgae lately, because of their countless applications such as wastewater treatment and pharmaceutical industry. Nevertheless, so far applied cultivation methods are still prohibitive. Ordinary cultivation techniques in which microalgae are suspended in liquid medium suffer from many bottlenecks, such as low biomass productivities, difficulty in biomass harvesting and recovery, high installation and operating cost, high water requirements etc. Although, microalgal biofilms are known to be a nuisance because of surfaces fouling, they have emerged as an innovative technology with which microalgae are developed attached to a solid surface. This technique seems to be advantageous as compared to conventional cultivation systems. Microalgal biofilm systems could resolve the problematic aspects of ordinary cultivation techniques such as low biomass productivities, water management and biomass recovery. A detailed description of this technique with respect to the parameters affecting them is reviewed in this work.
最近，科学界对微藻产生了浓厚的兴趣，因为它们有无数的应用，如废水处理和制药工业。然而，到目前为止，应用的培养方法仍然是有问题的。普通的培养技术是将微藻悬浮在液体培养基中，这种方法存在许多瓶颈，如生物量生产率低、生物量收获和回收困难、安装和运行成本高、高水需求等。虽然微藻生物膜由于表面结垢而被认为是一种麻烦，但它们已经作为一种创新技术出现，微藻附着在固体表面上生长。与传统的培养系统相比，这种技术似乎具有优势。微藻生物膜系统可以解决普通培养技术中生物量生产率低、水管理和生物量回收等方面的问题。本文详细介绍了这项技术，并对影响该技术的参数进行了综述。
