A Review on the Use of Microalgae for Sustainable Aquaculture
Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Environment and Resource Utilization and School of Resources, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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Appl. Sci. 2019, 9(11), 2377; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9112377
Received: 24 April 2019
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Revised: 5 June 2019
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Accepted: 5 June 2019
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Published: 11 June 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies for Supporting Global Sustainability)
Traditional aquaculture provides food for humans, but produces a large amount of wastewater, threatening global sustainability. The antibiotics abuse and the water replacement or treatment causes safety problems and increases the aquaculture cost. To overcome environmental and economic problems in the aquaculture industry, a lot of efforts have been devoted into the application of microalgae for wastewater remediation, biomass production, and water quality control. In this review, the systematic description of the technologies required for microalgae-assisted aquaculture and the recent progress were discussed. It deeply reviews the problems caused by the discharge of aquaculture wastewater and introduces the principles of microalgae-assisted aquaculture. Some interesting aspects, including nutrients assimilation mechanisms, algae cultivation systems (raceway pond and revolving algal biofilm), wastewater pretreatment, algal-bacterial cooperation, harvesting technologies (fungi-assisted harvesting and flotation), selection of algal species, and exploitation of value-added microalgae as aquaculture feed, were reviewed in this work. In view of the limitations of recent studies, to further reduce the negative effects of aquaculture wastewater on global sustainability, the future directions of microalgae-assisted aquaculture for industrial applications were suggested.
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Keywords:
aquaculture; microalgae; wastes treatment; resource utilization; sustainability
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Han, P.; Lu, Q.; Fan, L.; Zhou, W. A Review on the Use of Microalgae for Sustainable Aquaculture. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 2377. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9112377
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Han P, Lu Q, Fan L, Zhou W. A Review on the Use of Microalgae for Sustainable Aquaculture. Applied Sciences. 2019; 9(11):2377. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9112377
Chicago/Turabian StyleHan, Pei, Qian Lu, Liangliang Fan, and Wenguang Zhou. 2019. "A Review on the Use of Microalgae for Sustainable Aquaculture" Applied Sciences 9, no. 11: 2377. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9112377
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