Key parameters for outdoor biomass production of Scenedesmus obliquus in solar tracked photobioreactors

Journal of Applied Phycology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2315-2325

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Strategic Science Consult SSC Ltd   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flue gas; Outdoor microalgal biomass production; Photosynthetic efficiency; Scenedesmus obliquus; Solar tracked flat panel photobioreactors; Temperature control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893685649     PISSN: 09218971     EISSN: 15735176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10811-014-0261-2     Document Type: Article

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