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.