Value-Added Products from Microalgae - Biotechnological Applications of Microalgae - page 139

Applications and Market Segments

Human Nutrition

Functional Foods

Carotenoids

Nutraceuticals

Cosmeceuticals

Phycobiliprot
eins

Ash

Animal Feed

ALGAL
BIOMASS

Pigments

Food and Beverage
Industry

Proteins Lipids

Sugars/
carbohydrates

Pharmaceuticals

Aquaculture

Cosmetics

Clinical and diagnostic
research reagents

Bioremediation

FIGURE 10.1 (See color insert.) Applications of algal biomass.

TABLE 10.1
Global Production of Algal Biomass for Commercially Relevant Algal Genera

Production
(tonnes y −1 dry weight) Genus Country Applications and Products

Spirulina 3,000 China, India, U.S.,

Myanmar, Japan, SA

Human and animal nutrition,
phycobiliproteins, cosmetics

Chlorella 2,000 Taiwan, Germany,

Japan

Human nutrition, aquaculture,
cosmetics

Dunaliella 1,200 Australia, Israel,

U.S., China, SA

Human nutrition, cosmetics,
β-carotene

Nostoc 600 China Human nutrition

Aphanizomenon 500 U.S. Human nutrition

Haematococcus 300 U.S., India, Israel Aquaculture, astaxanthin

Source: Adapted from Pulz and Gross (2004), Spolaore et al. (2006); Milledge (2011).