Current Techniques of Growing Algae Using Flue Gas from Exhaust Gas Industry: a Review

The soaring increase of flue gas emission had caused global warming, environmental pollution as well as climate change. Widespread concern on reduction of flue gas released from industrial plants had considered the microalgae as excellent biological materials for recycling the carbon dioxide directly emitted from exhaust industries. Microalgae also have the potential to be the valuable feedback for renewable energy production due to their high growth rate and abilities to sequester inorganic carbon through photosynthetic process. In this review article, we will illustrate important relative mechanisms in the metabolic processes of biofixation by microalgae and their recent experimental researches and advances of sequestration of carbon dioxide by microalgae on actual industrial and stimulate flue gases, novel photobioreactor cultivation systems as well as the perspectives and limitations of microalgal cultivation in further development.Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2013QNA13]; scientific research foundation of key laboratory of Coal-based CO2 capture and geological storage, Jiangsu province (China university of mining and technology) [2015B01]SCI(E)EIPubMedREVIEWclarahuanggh@cumt.edu.cn; kylxjx@163.com61220-123817