Production of Chlorella vulgaris as a source of essential fatty acids in a tubular photobioreactor continuously fed with air enriched with CO2 at different concentrations

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 916-922

  Ortiz Montoya, Erika Y ^a   Casazza, Alessandro A ^a   Aliakbarian, Bahar ^a   Perego, Patrizia ^a   Converti, Attilio ^a   De Carvalho, João C Monteiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Chlorella vulgaris; Fatty acids; Lipids; Microalgae

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; FATTY ACIDS; LIPIDS; PHOTOBIOREACTORS; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

BIOMASS CONCENTRATIONS; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CONSUMPTION RATES; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS; LIPID PRODUCTIVITIES; MICRO-ALGAE; SOLE CARBON SOURCE; TUBULAR PHOTOBIOREACTOR;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CHLORELLA VULGARIS;

BIOFUEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID;

AIR; BIOMASS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; PHOTOBIOREACTOR;

AIR; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; MICROALGAE; PHOTOBIOREACTORS;

EID: 84904757649     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: 15206033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.1885     Document Type: Article

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