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- Title
Bioactivity assessment, micropollutant and nutrient removal ability of Tetradesmus obliquus cultivated outdoors in centrate from urban wastewater.
- Authors
Grivalský, Tomáš; Ranglová, Karolína; Lakatos, Gergely Ernö; Manoel, João Artur Câmara; Černá, Tereza; Barceló-Villalobos, Marta; Estrella, Francisca Suárez; Ördög, Vince; Masojídek, Jiří
- Abstract
Nutrient and micropollutant removal, and bioactivity were studied in cultures of the green microalga Tetradesmus obliquus MACC-677 grown in centrate from municipal wastewater (WW). Two outdoor units, a thin-layer cascade (TLC) and a thin-layer raceway pond (TL-RWP), were tested for microalgal culturing in batch and semi-continuous regimes where their photosynthetic performance was monitored. The results revealed that the T. obliquus cultures grew well, showing a high specific growth rate µ of 0.31 day−1 and 0.25 day−1 when grown in WW in TLC and TL-RWP, respectively. The cultivation trials showed high nutrient removal efficiency for ammonium nitrogen (98.5%) as well as orthophosphate (89%), the most abundant forms of N and P occurring in municipal WW. The removal of selected pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors (e.g., ibuprofen, amitriptyline, bisphenol A, etc.) was also assessed. Ibuprofen was the most abundant micropollutant detected in the centrate, with concentrations up to 5000 ng L−1 and fast removal during the cultivation. The biomass produced in the centrate revealed antimicrobial activity against plant pathogens, including fungi, oomycota, and bacteria. These findings have shown that the culturing of T. obliquus can be considered a suitable way to contribute to a circular economy, to remove nutrients and micropollutants from municipal WW from which biomass extracts can be further used for plant protection in agriculture.
- Publication
Journal of Applied Phycology, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 6, p2955
- ISSN
0921-8971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10811-022-02828-6