Chairopoulou, Makrina A., Kokkinos, Nikolaos, García-Triñanes, Pablo ORCID: 0000-0002-4993-2250, Mitropoulos, Athanassios and Teipel, Ulrich (2021) Evaluation of particle recovery from microalgae. Advanced Powder Technology, 32 (8). pp. 3023-3033. ISSN 0921-8831 (Print), 1568-5527 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apt.2021.06.013)

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Abstract

Coccoliths are micro-structured biomineral particles found in cell protective covering layers of coccolithophore species. They are mainly composed of CaCO3and their individual crystal entities are arranged in such a way that they construct complex and unique structures. This complexity is found down to the individual particle level and appears to have promising properties to offer. This study focuses on the essential step prior to any kind of implementation, which is the recovery of the material. It summarizes cleaning protocols found in literature, compares them for the first time for the same freshly cultivated material and addresses challenges that still need to be overcome. Further, it highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the best cleaning protocols, suggests optimizations with promising results and uses size distribution measurements to analyse the recovery efficiency. To that end, further characterization techniques, new for coccoliths, are introduced and used to improve our current knowledge of the particles behaviour.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Coccoliths; particle recovery; microalgae; emiliania huxleyi; biomaterials
Subjects:	Q Science > QD Chemistry
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
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Last Modified:	25 Jun 2023 01:38
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/33887

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