Photobioreactors: light regime, mass transfer, and scaleup

Progress in Industrial Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue C, 1999, Pages 231-247

  Acien Fernandez F G ^a   Garcia Camacho F ^a   Chisti, Yusuf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Light regimen; Mass transfer; Microalgae; Photobioreactors; Scaleup

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957823671     PISSN: 00796352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6352(99)80118-0     Document Type: Article

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