Table 4.

Reports on drying methods and temperature used for microalgal drying.

Microalga	Drying method and temperature	Drying time	Reference
Chlorella protothecoides	Oven drying at 125°C	24 h	Miao and Wu, 2004
Chlorella vulgaris	Oven drying at 60°C	12 h	Widjaja et al., 2009
Fresh water algae	Hot air stream	2 h	Vijayaraghavan and Hemanathan, 2009
Chlorella sp.	Oven drying at 105°C	Till to reach constant weight	Haque et al., 2012
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC-124 wild-type mt(+)	Air drying followed by oven drying at 80°C	48 h	Cakmak et al., 2012
Chlorella sp.	Oven dried at 50°C	Till to reach constant weight	Agwa et al., 2012
Freshwater algae	Oven drying at 125°C	12 h	Jernigan et al., 2013
Nannochloris eucaryotum	Oven drying at 105°C	24 h	Concas et al., 2013
Scenedesmus sp.	Oven dried at 80°C, 5–7.5 mm initial thickness, 10% end moisture content	8 h	Bagchi et al., 2015