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  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,121 Views
39 Pages

An Integrated Algal Biorefinery Approach for Wastewater Treatment and Biomass Valorisation

  • Faiz Ahmad Ansari,
  • Humeira Hassan,
  • Abdulwahab Said Salim Al-Ouweini,
  • Mayuri Chabukdhara and ,
  • Amita Shakya,
  • Abdul Gaffar Sheik,
  • Samar Alghamdi,
  • Insaf Naser,
  • Sharjeel Waqas and
  • Irshad Ahmad
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 February 2026

Biological wastewater treatment methods are considered suitable due to several advantages, such as fast processing, low operating cost, less secondary pollution, and overall, environmentally friendly. Microalgae-based wastewater treatment has promisi...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioeconomy of Sustainability)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,788 Views
11 Pages

Pelagic Sargassum Inundation in the Central Atlantic Cabo Verde Archipelago

  • Thierry Tonon,
  • Artemisa Gonçalves,
  • Joelma Silva Gomes,
  • Diana Semedo and ,
  • Lindsay C. Stringer,
  • Leonardo D. Gomez and
  • Edita Magileviciute
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Since 2011, Caribbean and West African countries have experienced the deposit of millions of tonnes of the pelagic brown seaweed sargassum. While these algal blooms are well documented in the Caribbean, less information is available on the occurrence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,347 Views
13 Pages

3 January 2023

The anaerobic digestion, AD, process presents a solution for sustainable waste management, greenhouse gas mitigation and energy production for growing population needs and requirements. Adopting a biorefinery approach that utilises different feedstoc...

(This article belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,294 Views
17 Pages

Large-Scale Waste Bio-Remediation Using Microalgae Cultivation as a Platform

  • Alla Silkina,
  • Naomi E. Ginnever,
  • Fleuriane Fernandes and
  • Claudio Fuentes-Grünewald

19 July 2019

Municipal and agricultural waste treatment is one of the key elements of reducing environmental impact with direct effects on the economy and society. Algal technology has been tested to enable effective recycling and valorisation of wastewater nutri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected papers from the British Council Researcher Links UK-Russia Workshop "Scientific and Technical Grounds of Future Low-Carbon Propulsion")
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,241 Views
21 Pages

Role of Enzyme Technologies and Applied Enzymology in Valorising Seaweed Bioproducts

  • Blessing Mabate,
  • Lithalethu Mkabayi,
  • Deandra Rochelle Goddard,
  • Coleen Elizabeth Grobler and
  • Brett Ivan Pletschke

29 July 2025

Seaweeds, classified as non-vascular plants, have definite advantages over terrestrial plants as they grow rapidly, can be cultivated in coastal environments, and are dependable and non-endangered sources of biomass. Algal bioproducts, which include...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,516 Views
16 Pages

Fishing for Targets of Alien Metabolites: A Novel Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR) Agonist from a Marine Pest

  • Rosa Maria Vitale,
  • Enrico D'Aniello,
  • Stefania Gorbi,
  • Andrea Martella and ,
  • Cristoforo Silvestri,
  • Maria Elisa Giuliani,
  • Tariq Fellous,
  • Alessandra Gentile,
  • Marianna Carbone and
  • Ernesto Mollo
  • + 17 authors+ 12 authors

3 November 2018

Although the chemical warfare between invasive and native species has become a central problem in invasion biology, the molecular mechanisms by which bioactive metabolites from invasive pests influence local communities remain poorly characterized. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Bioactive Compounds to New Drugs: Commemorative Issue Dedicated to Professor Ernesto Fattorusso (1937-2012))
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,487 Views
29 Pages

30 August 2025

Rugulopteryx okamurae is an invasive brown alga that has colonised Mediterranean and northeastern Atlantic coastlines, posing significant ecological and economic challenges. Its biomass is rich in structurally diverse metabolites—including poly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutritional Content, Biologically Active Compounds, and Correlated Health Impacts of Seaweed as a Resource for Nutraceutical, Cosmetic, and Pharmaceutical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,380 Views
24 Pages

Adsorption is a method widely used to remove low-molecular-weight organics from wastewaters, and phenolic compounds from olive mill wastewater are a persistent class of bioactive pollutants of environmental concern. We screened eleven microalgal cand...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microalgae Biotechnology and Microbiology: Prospects and Applications)