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Seaweed for climate mitigation, wastewater treatment, bioenergy, bioplastic, biochar, food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics: a review

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Farghali, Mohamed, Mohamed, Israa M. A., Osman, Ahmed I., Rooney, David W.·2023·Environmental Chemistry Letters
DOI 10.1007/s10311-022-01520-yPMC PMC9547092
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The development and recycling of biomass production can partly solve issues of energy, climate change, population growth, food and feed shortages, and environmental pollution. For instance, the use of seaweeds as feedstocks can reduce our reliance on fossil fuel resources, ensure the synthesis of cost-effective and eco-friendly products and biofuels, and develop sustainable biorefinery processes. Nonetheless, seaweeds use in several biorefineries is still in the infancy stage compared to terrestrial plants-based lignocellulosic biomass. Therefore, here we review seaweed biorefineries with focus on seaweed production, economical benefits, and seaweed use as feedstock for anaerobic digestion, biochar, bioplastics, crop health, food, livestock feed, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Globally, seaweeds could sequester between 61 and 268 megatonnes of carbon per year, with an average of 173 megatonnes. Nearly 90% of carbon is sequestered by exporting biomass to deep water, while the remaining 10% is buried in coastal sediments. 500 gigatonnes of seaweeds could replace nearly 40% of the current soy protein production. Seaweeds contain valuable bioactive molecules that could be applied as antimicrobial, antioxidant, antiviral, antifungal, anticancer, contraceptive, anti-inflammatory, anti-coagulants, and in other cosmetics and skincare products.

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  • Farghali et al. (2022) estimated that using the anaerobic digestion of affordable wastes for biogas generation has the potential to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 4.36 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 13% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, evaded emissions management, crop burning, landfill gas, and fertilizer synthesis emissions.

    “Farghali et al. (2022) estimated that using the anaerobic digestion of affordable wastes for biogas generation has the potential to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 4.36 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 13% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, evaded emissions management, crop burning, landfill gas, and fertilizer synthesis emissions.”

    From Recycling municipal, agricultural and industrial waste into energy, fertilizers, food and construction materials, and economic feasibility: a review (2023) · cites this paper as Farghali et al. 2022

    The section ‘Seaweed as a feedstock for the anaerobic digestion process’ (page unavailable) describes producing biogas from inexpensive seaweed biomass and discusses greenhouse-gas reduction as a motivation for bioenergy. It does not give the claimed estimate of 4.36 gigatons of CO₂ equivalent or 13% of global emissions, nor does it link that estimate to digestion of affordable wastes or the listed emissions sources (searched: ‘4.36’ and the emissions-source terms). (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Farghali, M., Mohamed, I. M. A., Osman, A. I., & Rooney, D. W.
Affiliations
  • Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (JP)
  • Queen's University Belfast (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Osman, Ahmed I.
  • Rooney, David W.
ORCID
Venue
Environmental Chemistry Letters
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-10-08
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
97-152
ISSN
  • 1610-3653 (ISSN-L)
  • 1610-3661
DOI
10.1007/s10311-022-01520-y
PMC
PMC9547092
OpenAlex
W4303644474
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225
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18
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journal article
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en
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  • Environmental Chemistry Letters (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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Funders
SEUPB (Bryden Centre project (Project ID VA5048))
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Aquatic Science › Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Algal biology and biofuel production
Keywords
seaweed, seaweed biorefinery, seaweed biomass, carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation, anaerobic digestion, biochar, bioplastics, bioenergy, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, bioactive compounds, seaweed production

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