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Published on: December 19, 2019
Automatic on-line growth estimation method for outdoor algal biomass production
H Guterman1, S Ben-Yaakov, A Vonshak
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, 84105, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Abstract:
An on-line measuring procedure for estimating productivity in outdoor algal cultures was developed and tested experimentally. The procedure is based on a previously described method for on-line measuring net O(2) production rate (OPR). The data obtained by this method was found to correlate well with the conventional procedures for estimation productivity by measuring the changes in biomass concentration in the culture. The new procedure seems to be superior to the latter since it can be carried out in an almost continuous way and can give immediate indication on the productivity. OPR could be used to monitor on-line the photosynthetic and/or respiration activity in small research fermentors or in large-scale open systems outdoors.
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