Photic volume in photobioreactors supporting ultrahigh population densities of the photoautotroph Spirulina platensis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1570-1573

  Gitelson, Anatoly ^a   Hu, Qiuang ^a   Richmond, Amos ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOMETRY;

ALGAE; SPIRULINA PLATENSIS;

EID: 15844395828     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.5.1570-1573.1996     Document Type: Article

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