Development of suitable photobioreactors for CO2 sequestration addressing global warming using green algae and cyanobacteria

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4945-4953

  Kumar, Kanhaiya ^a   Dasgupta, Chitralekha Nag ^a   Nayak, Bikram ^a   Lindblad, Peter ^b   Das, Debabrata ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide fixation; Cyanobacteria; Global warming; Green algae; Photobioreactor

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FIXATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CYANOBACTERIA; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; GREEN ALGA; GREEN ALGAE; HYBRID TYPE; MICROBIAL STRAIN; PHOTO-BIOREACTORS; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; RENEWABLE ENERGY CARRIER; SEQUESTRATION PROCESS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ETHANOL; FLUE GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ALGAE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN;

BIOFUEL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GLOBAL WARMING; GREEN ALGA; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUE GAS; GREEN ALGA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BIOREACTORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE;

CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 79952534540     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.01.054     Document Type: Review

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