The textile waste effluent (WE) was collected from a property
located near Alexandria, Egypt and stored under cooling to
4 C. Physio-chemical analyses of the water sample were carried
out following the methods described by APHA (2000).
The microalgal flora in the effluent was identified following
the Utermo¨ hl’s (1958) method. The samples were immediately
fixed with 4% formaldehyde for laboratory analysis and microalgae
were counted and identified using 2 ml settling chambers
with a Nikon TS 100 inverted microscope at 400x
magnification. The dominant algal strain, Chlorella vulgaris
was used throughout the study work.