In-field experimental verification of cultivation of microalgae Chlorella sp. using the flue gas from a cogeneration unit as a source of carbon dioxide

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 961-966

  Kaštánek, František ^a   Šabata, Stanislav ^a   Šolcová, Olga ^a   Maléterová, Ywette ^a   Kaštánek, Petr ^b   Brányiková, Irena ^b,c   Kuthan, Karel ^d   Zachleder, Vilém ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^b EcoFuel Laboratories Ltd   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ^*  (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide recovery; flat prism photobioreactor; flue gas; integrated waste treatment; microalgae cultivation

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; CARBON DIOXIDE RECOVERY; CHLORELLA SP; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; EU CRITERIA; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD TEST; FLAT-PRISM PHOTOBIOREACTOR; IN-FIELD; INTEGRATED WASTE TREATMENT; LABORATORY ANALYSIS; MICRO-ALGAE; MICROALGAE CULTIVATION; MICROALGAL BIOMASS; PHOTO-BIOREACTORS; PHOTOBIORE-ACTOR; PILOT SCALE;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; BIOGAS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COGENERATION PLANTS; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; FLUE GASES; FLUES; GASES; GROWTH KINETICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; MICROORGANISMS; PRISMS;

ALGAE;

BIOGAS; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOGAS; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COGENERATION; EUROPEAN UNION; GROWTH RATE; MICROALGA; WASTE TREATMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AIR; ALGAL GROWTH; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CHLORELLA; FLUE GAS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECYCLING; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORELLA; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

CHLORELLA SP.;

EID: 78049263053     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X10375866     Document Type: Article

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