Research Article

Feasibility of Marine Microalgae Immobilization in Alginate Bead for Marine Water Treatment: Bead Stability, Cell Growth, and Ammonia Removal

Table 1

Summary of the results and -test of free and immobilized cell incubated in f/2 medium enriched with 900 µM -N. .

ParameterFree cellImmobilized cell-test
MeanSDMeanSD value

Maximum cell attained6.1 × 1063.8 × 1048.2 × 1054.3 × 104
SGR
Maximum -N consumed
SUR

Significant value of value ≤ 0.05 is indicated in bold.