Optimal intensity and biomass density for biofuel production in a thin-light-path photobioreactor

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6327-6334

  Jain, Aadhar ^a   Voulis, Nina ^b   Jung, Erica E ^a   Doud, Devin F R ^b   Miller, William B ^c   Angenent, Largus T ^b   Erickson, David ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c Department of Horticulture Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; PHOTOBIOREACTORS; WAVEGUIDES;

ETHYLENE PRODUCTION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HIGH-DENSITY CULTURES; MICROALGAL BIOFUELS; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; VOLUMETRIC PRODUCTION; VOLUMETRIC PRODUCTIVITY;

BIOFUELS;

ETHYLENE; BIOFUEL; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

BIOFUEL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; ETHYLENE; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; LIGHT EFFECT; MICROALGA; OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRODUCTIVITY; SYNECHOCYSTIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROALGA;

ALGAE;

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; ETHYLENES; MICROALGAE; PHOTOBIOREACTORS;

EID: 84929600650     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5052777     Document Type: Article

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