<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:HI" lang="EN-GB">Excessive nutrients and heavy metals removal from diverse wastewaters using marine microalga <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Chlorella marina</i> (Butcher)</span>

Abstract

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:="" "times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-us;="" mso-bidi-language:hi"="" lang="EN-GB">Present study consists the nutrients and heavy metals removal efficacy of mobilized marine microalga <i>Chlorella marina </i>cells using different wastewaters <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">viz., </i>domestic sewage, industrial and aquaculture. Study indicated that as a result of seven days incubation in wastewater, <i>C. marina </i>cell concentration increased from 3×10⁶ to 1.5×10⁷ cells/ml and reduced 88% of nitrite, 75% of nitrate, 64% of ammonia and 51% of phosphorus in overall three different waste waters. Likewise, heavy metals such as chromium and lead were eliminated largely in the percentages of 89 and 87 respectively from aquaculture wastewater in particular. </span>