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Record W2500209307 · doi:10.1002/cben.201600008

Cultivation of Microalgae in Municipal Wastewater and Conversion by Hydrothermal Carbonization: A Review

2016· review· en· W2500209307 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueChemBioEng Reviews · 2016
Typereview
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicAlgal biology and biofuel production
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHydrothermal carbonizationWastewaterBiomass (ecology)BiocharEnvironmental scienceCarbonizationWaste managementSewage treatmentResource recoveryPhosphorusPulp and paper industryEnvironmental engineeringAdsorptionChemistryEcologyBiologyEngineeringPyrolysis

Abstract

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Abstract The idea of growing microalgae in wastewaters emerges from the idea of resource conservation and the recovery of nutrients. In fact, microalgae are able to take up nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon from wastewaters, even adsorb metals, and in many cases, can be co‐cultivated with various bacteria that are prevailing in municipal wastewater treatment plants. The cultivation of microalgae in municipal wastewater has been known for about half a century and investigated accordingly. Despite this long history, there are still many questions to answer before this technology will be ready for implementation in large‐scale projects. In this review, recent developments are presented. One crucial point in developing a viable process out of wastewater grown algae is the downstream processing of the accumulated algal biomass. The authors decided to focus on hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) as a processing strategy. HTC uses wet biomass and relatively mild process conditions to produce an energy‐rich biochar and a liquid fraction that can be further processed to higher‐value substances. The latest findings in the carbonization of microalgae are highlighted in the second part of this article.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.903
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.260 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it