Development of a draft-tube airlift bioreactor for Botryococcus braunii with an optimized inner structure using computational fluid dynamics

▸ An airlift reactor was designed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). ▸ An airlift reactor for algal culture was scaled up to 40 L using CFD simulation. ▸ CFD provides a powerful means for the design and scale-up of algal culture reactors.