AndPark et al. (2013)used municipal wastewater as supplement to a part Zarrouk medium (ZM) to cultivate
Arthrospira(Spirulina) platensisin a photobioreactor and obtained
3.29 g kg
1
, 2.79 g kg
1
biomass in 40% wastewater and ZM, respectively. However for the same species of algae,Markou et al. (2012)
obtained less exciting results with olive-oil mill wastewater
(OMWW), as OMWW diluted with deionized water without the
addition of nutrients could not support algae growth.