Photosynthetic efficiency of Chlorella sorokiniana in a turbulently mixed short light-path photobioreactor

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-696

  Kliphuis, Anna M J ^a   de Winter, Lenneke ^a   Vejrazka, Carsten ^a   Martens, Dirk E ^a   Janssen, Marcel ^a   Wijffels, René H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chlorella sorokiniana; Microalgae; Mixing; Photosynthetic efficiency; Productivity; Short light path photobioreactor

Indexed keywords

ALGAL CULTURE; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOMASS CONCENTRATIONS; BIOMASS DENSITY; CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA; DARK ZONE; GAIN INSIGHT; GAS EXCHANGE; INNER TUBES; LIGHT ENERGY; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT PATH; MICRO-ALGAE; MIXING RATES; OXYGEN EVOLUTION; PHOTOBIORE-ACTOR; PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY; TAYLOR VORTEX FLOW;

ALGAE; BIOMASS; LIGHT; MICROORGANISMS; OXYGEN; PHOTONS; PRODUCTIVITY; VORTEX FLOW;

MIXING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CHLORELLA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHLORELLA; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA SOROKINIANA;

EID: 77954720391     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: 15206033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.379     Document Type: Article

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