The effect of discontinuous airlift mixing in outdoor flat panel photobioreactors on growth of Scenedesmus obliquus

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1653-1663

  Leupold, Marco ^a,b   Hindersin, Stefan ^a,b   Kerner, Martin ^b   Hanelt, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Strategic Science Consult SSC Ltd   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy saving; Flat panel airlift photobioreactors; Microalgae; Mixing; Outdoor cultivation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PRODUCTIVITY; FLAT PANEL; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT LIMITATIONS; MICRO-ALGAE; OUTDOOR CULTIVATION; OUTDOOR EXPERIMENT; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS;

CHARGE DENSITY WAVES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; LIGHT; PHOTOBIOREACTORS;

MIXING;

ACUTODESMUS OBLIQUUS; ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; FLOW RATE; GAS; GAS FLOW; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SCENEDESMUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84892374020     PISSN: 16157591     EISSN: 16157605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00449-013-0939-x     Document Type: Article

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