Incremental energy supply for microalgae culture in a photobioreactor

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2973-2978

  Das, Probir ^a,b   Obbard, Jeffrey Philip ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Mixing; Nannochloropsis; Photobioreactor

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS CONCENTRATIONS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIVITY; CONSTANT ENERGY; CULTURE TIME; ENERGY INPUTS; ENERGY SUPPLIES; LIGHT ENERGY; MICROALGAE CULTURE; MIXING ENERGIES; NANNOCHLOROPSIS; NANNOCHLOROPSIS SP; PER UNIT; PHOTOBIORE-ACTOR;

ALGAE; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS;

MIXING;

BIOFUEL; BIOREACTOR; MICROALGA; MIXING; VOLUME;

ALGAL CELL CULTURE; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOMASS ENERGY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; MICROALGA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOBIOREACTORS; STRAMENOPILES;

ALGAE; NANNOCHLOROPSIS; NANNOCHLOROPSIS SP.;

EID: 78650825915     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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