Opportunities to improve the areal oil productivity of microalgae

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 186, Issue , 2015, Pages 294-302

  Breuer, Guido ^a   Lamers, Packo P ^a   Janssen, Marcel ^a   Wijffels, René H ^a,b   Martens, Dirk E ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Mechanistic model; Oil; Productivity; Scenedesmus obliquus; Triacylglycerol (TAG)

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; MICROORGANISMS; OIL SHALE; PRODUCTIVITY;

CARBON PARTITIONING; MECHANISTIC MODELING; NITROGEN STARVATION; OIL; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROLS;

OILS AND FATS;

NITROGEN; OIL; CARBON; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MICROALGA; MUTATION; OIL PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STARCH; VEGETABLE OIL; WILD POPULATION;

ACUTODESMUS OBLIQUUS; ARTICLE; CARBON PARTITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT INTENSITY; MICROALGA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCTIVITY; REACTOR DESIGN; STARVATION; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCENEDESMUS;

SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON; MICROALGAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SCENEDESMUS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84925762210     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.03.085     Document Type: Article

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