Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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766823 | Energy Conversion and Management | 2006 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
For efficient mass production of microalgae, we invented a novel photobioreactor that uses aeration for mixing. To select better chamber shapes for a photobioreactor, two aspects of its performance were numerically simulated, mixing and light reception. Two shapes survived the computational filters and were tested by cultivating Chlorococum littorale. One of them attained 20.5 g/m2/day in dry weight in the winter days in Japan. Recently, this figure was overwritten by the performance of 37.3 g/m2/day for Chaetoceros calcitrans with the maximum cell density of 2.5 g/L.
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Authors
Toru Sato, Shinsuke Usui, Yoshihiro Tsuchiya, Yutaka Kondo,