Effect of light-path length in outdoor fiat plate reactors on output rate of cell mass and of EPA in Nannochloropsis sp.

Progress in Industrial Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue C, 1999, Pages 351-356

  Zou, Ning ^a   Richmond, Amos ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

EPA; Light path; Nannochloropsis sp.; Outdoor cultures; Photobioreactor; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957088177     PISSN: 00796352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6352(99)80127-1     Document Type: Article

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