Effects of water culture medium, cultivation systems and growth modes for microalgae cultivation: A review

Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

Volumn 91, Issue , 2018, Pages 332-344

  Chew, Kit Wayne ^a   Chia, Shir Reen ^b   Show, Pau Loke ^a   Yap, Yee Jiun ^a   Ling, Tau Chuan ^c   Chang, Jo Shu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Culture medium; Large scale; Lipid; Microalgae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; CULTIVATION; FUEL SYSTEMS; LIPIDS;

CULTURE MEDIUM; HIGH PRODUCTION RATE; LARGE SCALE; LARGE SCALE CULTIVATIONS; MICRO-ALGAE; MICROALGAE CULTIVATION; MICROALGAE CULTURE; RENEWABLE SOURCES;

MICROORGANISMS;

EID: 85048381407     PISSN: 18761070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2018.05.039     Document Type: Review

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