Abstract
This paper investigated the effects of temperature and cultivation methods (batch or semi-continuous culture) on the filamentous microalgae Tribonema sp. biomass production and nutrients removal in starch wastewater under low intensity magnetic field (MF) intervention. The MF significantly promoted algal growth in the late logarithmic-phase of batch cultivation, and the effect was even more obvious at lower temperatures. The MF treated group at 30 °C accumulated the highest biomass of 4.44 g/L of batch culture, an increase of 15.0% compared with the control group. The oil content of Tribonema sp. was enhanced with the MF intervention, especially for the batch culture. In the semi-continuous culture under MF intervention, Tribonema sp. reached the high biomass of 18.45 g/L after 25 days. When gradually reducing hydraulic retention time (HRT) to 1 day, the average removal rates for COD, TN, NH3-N and TP were all more than 90% in the semi-continuous cultivation.
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