A miniaturized, small-scale photobioreactor (PBR) known as EOSS2-PBR (Efficient Overproducing Screening System photobioreactor) has been developed to characterize microalgal growth under controlled conditions. As with similar systems, allows the screening of either culture conditions or species performance, but it is also specially designed provide high levels light absorption control in volume...

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Chlorella vulgaris had the ability to accumulate heavy metals in their bodies, so they could be used as biosorbent handling metal pollution waters. The effectiveness of C. remediation cadmium (Cd) would tested this present study. were cultured for 14 days photobioreactor which was an enclosed chamber that fully aerated and illuminated with LED lamps. Cadmium concentrations 0 (control), 0.05, 0....

Microalgae consume carbon dioxide for their growth and to produce secondary metabolites. One of the control system challenges is to maximize this carbon dioxide consumption by controlling microalgae growth, and by maintaining its growth rate at an optimal value. However, there is no such thing as a microalgae growth rate sensor. This paper proposes a software sensor for the specific growth rate...

A nonlinear lightand nitrate-limited phytoplankton growth model in a photobioreactor is presented. Its qualitative steady input-output behaviour is studied and compared to biological observations of the evolution of ratios between nitrogen, carbon, chlorophyll with respect to the two considered inputs (light and dilution rate). A qualitative validation of the model is provided. The steady input...

Because algal cells are so efficient at absorbing incoming light energy, providing more light energy to photobioreactors would simply decrease energy conversion efficiency. Furthermore, the algal biomass productivity in photobioreactor is always proportional to the total photosynthetic rate. In order to optimize the productivity of algal photobioreactors (PBRs), the oxygen production rate shoul...