Year: 2018
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Environmental pollution occurs as a result of the disposal of advance manufactured goods in waste forms (solid, liquid, gas). Environmental technologies are the methods and materials used to minimize the environmental impacts of the pollution and converting them to non-pollutants. It is essential that these technologies should not cause another contamination. It is a sustainable and clean technology, and an innovative approach to use microalgae in environmental technologies. Microalgae are the tiniest photosynthetic microorganisms having simple sell structure and their intended purposes have been being researched for the last 75 years. Alongside of the environmental biotechnology applications such as bioremediation of wastewaters, carbon dioxide capture, conversion of the algal biomass into biofuel, bio-jet fuel, biofertilizer, animal feed production; microalgal biomass has fields of use in medicine, food, pharmaceuticals, textile and cosmetics industries. Feeding them with wastewaters provides economical treatment bringing equal or better treating than the conventional treatment methods. The algal wastewater treatment ponds, which can genarate economical benefits by producing microalgae cultures concurrently, have become a substantial option. The green buildings reusing wastewaters treated with microalgae and illuminated or heated with the microalgal energy will be built in the future. To prevent pollution and maintain the sustainability while preserving the balance of the environment, it is a necessity to go beyond the ordinary technologies in every field and transform to green technologies.
Source: Kocaeli Üniversitesi - AVESİS
Author: Oktor, Kadriye
Language: Turkish
Field: Energy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3005223124