With the growing rate of human pollution the anthropogenic fall outs of industrial development has become more evident and has started to affect our lives. Pollution from heavy metals and dyes bleed into the environment. While ravaging the ecosystem along the way, it also finds its way into our lives and corrupts it. If the lasting damage to the environment due to their persisting nature was not concerning enough, their effects on human physiology is also alarming with effects ranging from multi-organ disorders and even carcinogenic effects. Biosorption is one of the methods that showed...

The concept of microalgae cultivation as an integrated system in wastewater treatment has optimized the potential of the microalgae - based biofuel production. Microalgal biomass contains lipids, polysaccharides, proteins, pigments and other cell compounds, and it can provide different kinds of biofuels such as biodiesel, biomethane and ethanol; these microorganisms can also be used to produce bioplastic materials and the residual biomass can be applied as fertilizer.