RE: Microalgae for wastewater treatment
Greetings @ emiliomoron
Thank you very much for sharing very relevant information about the environment and wastewater pollution.
I highlight these lines where you state "Microalgae are microscopic plants that feed on carbon (from CO 2 ), nitrogen (from nitrates), phosphorus (from phosphates); for this reason we may have read or seen that they multiply uncontrollably in polluted water bodies, and that is why the water in these reservoirs looks green. In other words, they not only remove these pollutants from wastewater but also produce a large amount of biomass rich in these elements, which can then be used as green fertilizers." I particularly had a misconception of those algae , but now I know that they fulfill a fundamental function to improve water quality that can also be used as fertilizer for crops.
Thank you very much for sharing
Greetings my friend @dgalan. The truth is that many of us think this way, we mistakenly believe that the problem is algae, when the problem is water pollution, whose concentration of the compounds on which they feed makes their population increase uncontrollably. Although this can be used to purify the water and obtain biomass.