Power Plant Algal Treatment with Focus on the Sonication of Enteromorpha Prolifera Macro Algae

While others considering algae as the “light of hoop” to the energy crisis, and as a carbon neutral technology to combat global warming, uncontrolled growth and its eutrophication can be considered a challenging pollution issue. Nevertheless, in the last a few decades algae pollution has become a global issue. The occurrence of algal bloom in water source has posed a serious water safety and unaccounted control and maintenance at substantial added cost. Overgrowing algae have brought negative impacts on power plant and less frequently led to shutdown of the desalination or power plant. The eutrophication which is rarely is eliminated; it could be controlled by mechanical filtration and chemical biocidal methods. This adds another economic burden by the supply of chemical and their neutralizing agent to cope with tight EPA limits. In this work a review of the treatment of algae is carried out which involves chemical, mechanical, electromechanical and as well as the aid of scavengers directly or indirectly and their combination. As plausible results on the sonication treatment have been emerging, recent work of the author was presented as well to show the effectiveness of the sonication technology in the treatment of the Enteromorpha Prolifera Macro Algae.