Control of incident irradiance on a batch operated flat-plate photobioreactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-108

  Kandilian, Razmig ^a   Tsao, Tsu Chin ^a   Pilon, Laurent ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Feed forward control; Light transfer; Nannochloropsis; PBR optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOFUELS; MICROORGANISMS; PHOTOBIOREACTORS; PRODUCTIVITY;

BATCH CULTIVATION; GROWTH CONDITIONS; LIGHT TRANSFER; LIPID PRODUCTIVITIES; MASS CONCENTRATION; MICROALGAE CULTIVATION; NANNOCHLOROPSIS; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCULATA;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84906510450     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.07.056     Document Type: Article

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