parametric microalgal harvesting using electrocoagulation in a mixed culture

Microalgae-based industries are developing everywhere, since their application in biofuel and other down processing products however, the industry bottleneck is still the dewatering phase electrocoagulation (ec) is a quick and conventional strategy for harvesting however, its mechanism is yet to be unfolded thus, in this study, parametric ec runs were executed to help understand and later optimize the electrocoagulation operation the biomass concentration, current, time, salinity and inter-electrode gap were the investigated ec parameters in addition, in this study, for the first time, a mixed local culture of microalgae was used for harvesting through ec the results reach complete recovery of biomass from the medium