Comparison of the effects of nitrogen concentration on nutrient removal, growth and physiological characteristics of immobilized and free Chlorella vulgaris: II. Chorophyll content, flourescence spectra and nitrate reductase activity

Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 75-84

  Yan, Guoan A ^a   Yu, Jianyi Y ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

chlorophyll content; fluorescence spectra; free algae; immobilized algae; nitrate reductase activity; Nitrogen concentration

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CELL IMMOBILIZATION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHLOROPHYLL; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENZYMES; GROWTH KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; WASTEWATER;

CHLORELLA VULGARIS; FREE ALGAE; IMMOBILIZED ALGAE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NUTRIENT REMOVAL;

NITROGEN;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS;

EID: 0031053830     PISSN: 02772248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02772249709358399     Document Type: Article

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