Chew, Kit Wayne and Chia, Shir Reen and Show, Pau Loke and Ling, Tau Chuan and Arya, Shalini S. and Chang, Jo-Shu (2018) Food waste compost as an organic nutrient source for the cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris. Bioresource Technology, 267. pp. 356-362. ISSN 0960-8524, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2018.07.069.
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The present study investigates the prospective of substituting inorganic medium with organic food waste compost medium as a nutrient supplement for the cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris FSP-E. Various percentages of compost mixtures were replaced in the inorganic medium to compare the algal growth and biochemical composition. The use of 25% compost mixture combination was found to yield higher biomass concentration (11.1%) and better lipid (10.1%) and protein (2.0%) content compared with microalgae cultivation in fully inorganic medium. These results exhibited the potential of combining the inorganic medium with organic food waste compost medium as an effective way to reduce the cultivation cost of microalgae and to increase the biochemical content in the cultivated microalgae.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Malaysia [ FRGS/1/2015/SG05/UNIM/03/1 ], Ministry of Science and Technology, Malaysia [ MOSTI02-02-12-SF0256 ], Prototype Research Grant Scheme, Malaysia [ PRGS/2/2015/SG05/UNIM/03/1 ] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Chlorella; Cultivation; Food waste compost; Microalgae; Organic medium |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QH Natural history T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2019 07:38 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2019 07:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/22228 |
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