Table 3.

Comparative table with previous studies reported in the literature.

Operation	Substrate	Microalgae species	Biomass productivity (g.L−1.d−1)	Growth rate (d−1)	Removal efficiency			Reference
					COD (%)	TN (%)	TP (%)
Batch	Institutional wastewater	Chlorella sp.	–	0.29	84.86	98.2	70.5	[16]
Batch	Institutional wastewater	Scenedesmus sp.	–	0.33	95	99.7	80.5	[16]
Batch	Anaerobic digested dairy manure	Chlorella sp.	–	0.41	38.4	75.7	62.5	[17]
Batch	Textile waster	Mixed microalgae species	–	0.42	78.78	93.3	100	[3]
Semi-continuous	Livestock wastewater	Botyococcus braunii	0.2	–	–	96	85	[18]
Sequencing batch reactor	Livestock wastewater	Botyococcus braunii	0.315	0.2	–	83.2	94.1	[7]
Fed batch reactor	Textile wastewater	Mixed microalgae species	0.49	1.24	70.7	99.62	100	This study