Light attenuation in suspension of the purple bacterium rhodobacter capsulatus and the green alga chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 428-435

  Katsuda, Tomohisa ^a   Fujii, Nobuaki ^a   Takata, Natsushi ^a   Ooshima, Hiroshi ^b   Katoh, Shigeo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Green Alga; Light Attenuation; Light Intensity Distribution; Photobioreactor; Purple Bacterium

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ATTENUATION; BACTERIA; CELLS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGA; BACTERIUM; LIGHT;

EID: 0036563905     PISSN: 00219592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1252/jcej.35.428     Document Type: Article

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