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- Title
Using residual water from a marine shrimp farming BFT system. part I: nutrient removal and marine microalgae biomass production.
- Authors
Magnotti, Caio; Lopes, Rafael; Derner, Roberto; Vinatea, Luis
- Abstract
Microalgae have great biotechnological potential but the high cost of traditional formulae culture media is one of the limiting factors to their commercial cultivation. As an alternative, the use of residual water from other activities has been proposed as a culture medium. The goal of this study was to produce Chaetoceros muelleri, Nannochloropsis oculata and Tetraselmis chuii biomass using residual water from an intensive Litopenaeus vannamei biofloc cultivation system and to verify the ammoniacal nitrogen, nitrite, nitrate and orthophosphate consumption. The microalgae cultures were developed until the second day of their stationary phase in the following treatments: 100% f/2 culture media; 100% residual water; residual water diluted 50% with marine water. T. chuii and N. oculata presented the best relative biomass average (576 mg L−1; 474 mg L−1)( P > 0.05). All the species completely assimilated the orthophosphate in 2 days. In 10 days, T. chuii and N. oculata assimilated 87% and 85% of nitrate respectively. It can be concluded that residual water from an L. vannamei biofloc cultivation system can be used as an alternative culture medium for T. chuii and N. oculata biomass production. Moreover, the microalgae biomass proved to be very effective in recycling the dissolved nutritive salts.
- Subjects
MICROALGAE; BIOTECHNOLOGY research; WHITELEG shrimp; BIOMASS production; SEAWATER
- Publication
Aquaculture Research, 2016, Vol 47, Issue 8, p2435
- ISSN
1355-557X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/are.12691