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 Prof. El-Sayed Salama Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University (LZU), China |
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| Title: Microalgae-based wastewater treatment for clean biofuel and healthy environment: Applications, challenges, and omics roles | |
| Abstract: Microalgae are a potential source of sustainable feedstock for biofuel generation and can proliferate under versatile environmental conditions. Mass cultivation of microalgae is the most overpriced and technically challenging step in microalgal biofuel generation. Wastewater is an available source of the water and nutrients necessary for microalgae cultivation. Microalgae show higher efficiency in nutrients removal than other microorganisms because the nutrients (ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, urea, and trace elements) present in various wastewaters are essential for microalgal growth. Potential progress in the area of microalgal cultivation coupled with wastewater treatment in open and closed systems has led to an improvement in microalgal biomass production. However, significant efforts are still required for the development and optimization of a coupled system to simultaneously generate biomass and treat wastewater. The systematic description of the technologies required for the successful integration of wastewater treatment and cultivation of microalgae for biomass production toward biofuel generation will be discussed. It deeply covers the microalgae-mediated treatment of different wastewaters (including municipal, piggery/swine, industrial, and anaerobic wastewater), and highlight the wastewater characteristics suitable for microalgae cultivation. Various pretreatment approaches (such as filtration, autoclaving, UV application, and dilution) needed for wastewater prior to its use for microalgae cultivation will be also have deliberated. The selection of potential microalgae species that can grow in wastewater and generate a large amount of biomass will be considered. Discussion on microalgal cultivation systems (including raceways, photobioreactors, turf scrubbers, and hybrid systems) that use wastewater will be reported. We will also discuss the roles of “omics” in understanding genome structure and biocomponents metabolism in various microalgal species to optimize sustainable biofuel production. | |
| Biography: Dr. El-Sayed Salama is an outstanding individual and working as Young Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University (LZU), China under “High-Level Foreign Talents Program”. He earned both his MSc and PhD degrees in the area of Environmental Sciences from Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea. Dr. Salama accomplished 3-years of Post-Doctoral Research and Assistant Professor position under BK21 plus program funded by Korean government in HYU. He is currently leading a research group of 12 PhD and MS graduate students in LZU and being PI of 2 national and international research projects. His research interest is focused on “Energy and Environmental Sciences”. Dr. Salama has potential contributions to the scientific society through 50-SCI papers in international reputed journals with average IF ~6 and 5-registered patents. Dr. Salama published high level articles as first and corresponding author in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (IF=30.711, Q1), Trends in Plant Science (IF=14.416, Q1), and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (IF=12.110, Q1). Dr. Salama has also presented his work in several international conferences including American Chemical Society (ACS). He also has undergraduate and graduate teaching experience in HYU and LZU | |
