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Table 3 Lipid content of various microalgae grown in various wastewaters (Adapted from Pancha et al. [185])

From: Microalgae cultivation and value-based products from wastewater: insights and applications

Microalgae

Type of wastewater

Lipid content

References

Selenastrum minutum

Mix wastewater

37%

Gentili [66]

Consortia of microalgae

Municipal wastewater

28.5%

Mahapatra et al. [141]

Scenedesmus sp.

Domestic wastewater

23.1%

Nayak et al. [166]

Mix microalgae

Domestic wastewater

26.2%

Soydemir et al. [235]

Coelastrella sp. QY01

Swine wastewater

24.8%

Luo et al. [135]

Consortia of microalgae

Dairy farm wastewaters

16.89%

Hena et al. [84]

Scenedesmus bijuga

Food wastewater effluent

35.06%

Shin et al. [230]

Chlorella sp. GD

Piggery wastewater

29.3%

Kuo et al. [119]

Chlorella vulgaris

Domestic wastewater

32.7%

Lam et al. [121]

Chlorella vulgaris

Brewery wastewater

18%

Farooq et al. [58]

Chlorella zofingiensis

Piggery wastewater

45.81%

Zhu et al. [267]

Rhodosporidium toruloides + Chlorella pyrenoidosa

Distillery and local municipal wastewater

63. 45%

Ling et al. [130]

Micractinium reisseri

Municipal wastewater

40%

Abou-Shanab et al. [5]

Chlamydomonas mexicana

Piggery wastewater

33%

Abou-Shanab et al. [4]

Chlamydomonas polypyrenoideum

Dairy wastewaters

42%

Kothari et al. [114]

Ourococcus multisporus

Municipal wastewater

31%

Ji et al. [101]

Euglena sp.

Municipal wastewater

25.6%

Mahapatra et al. [140]

Monoraphidium sp.

Municipal wastewater

26%

Holbrook et al. [85]

Chlorella sp. ZTY4

Domestic wastewater

79.2%

Zhang et al. [264]

Scenedesmus sp. Z-4

Molasses wastewater

28.9%

Ma et al. [136]