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Microalgae Cultivation and Biomass Quantification in a Bench-Scale Photobioreactor with Corrosive Flue Gases
Published on: December 19, 2019
Performance Assessment of a Novel Pyramid Photobioreactor for Cultivation of Microalgae Using External and Internal
Zahra Khoobkar1, Farshid Pajoum Shariati1, Ali Akbar Safekordi1
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Simon Bolivar Ave, Tehran Iran, P.O. Box 1477893855, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
The cultivation of Chlorella sp., the most abundant microalga in the Persian Gulf, took place in a novel pyramid photobioreactor (PBR), a modified version of plate PBR, consisting of four completely separate equal-volume chambers. In this study we used two light sources incident in each chamber: light-emitting diode (LED) at various wavelengths (red, white and blue) of 108 µmol/(m2·s) photosynthetic photon flux density as internal lighting, and the same photon flux density for external white lighting. PBR served to study the effects of light sources on chlorophyll a production, maximum specific growth rate (µ max), biomass productivity rate (r p) and photon performance. The results showed that the highest chlorophyll a production was obtained under red LED illumination. The highest values for r p, µ max and photon performance were obtained under white light.
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