Hydrothermal gasification of Acutodesmus obliquus for renewable energy production and nutrient recycling of microalgal mass cultures

Journal of Applied Phycology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2239-2250

  Patzelt, Dominik J ^a,b   Hindersin, Stefan ^b   Elsayed, Sherif ^c   Boukis, Nikolaos ^c   Kerner, Martin ^b   Hanelt, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Strategic Science Consult SSC Ltd   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrothermal gasification; Microalgae mass culture; Nutrient recycling; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945459004     PISSN: 09218971     EISSN: 15735176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10811-014-0496-y     Document Type: Article

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