Photobioreactors for mass cultivation of algae

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4021-4028

  Ugwu, C U ^a   Aoyagi, H ^a   Uchiyama, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algae; Biomass; Mass transfer; Mixing; Photobioreactors

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; FOOD ADDITIVES; MASS TRANSFER;

MASS CULTIVATION; MASS PRODUCTION; PHOTOBIOREACTORS;

ALGAE;

ALGAE; BIOACTIVITY; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; FOOD ADDITIVES; MASS TRANSFER;

ALGA; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; MASS TRANSFER;

ALGA; ALGAL GROWTH; BIOMASS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDRODYNAMICS; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

ALGAE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; WATER;

ALGAE;

EID: 40849088189     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2007.01.046     Document Type: Review

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