Commercial production of microalgae: ponds, tanks, and fermenters

Progress in Industrial Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue C, 1999, Pages 313-321

  Borowitzka, Michael A ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlorella; Dunaliella; Photobioreactors; Spirulina

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444303416     PISSN: 00796352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6352(99)80123-4     Document Type: Article

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