The Effectiveness of Hollow Fibre Membranes in Transferring Flue Gas into Microalgal Culture for Sequestration Purposes

ix LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS USED x ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1 Carbon Sequestration 3 1.2 Flue Gas Substrate Sequestration 5 1.3 Objectives 7 1.4 Organization 7 Chapter 2: Literature Review 9 2.1 Hollow-fibre Membranes 9 2.2 Mass Transfer 12 2.3 Mass Transfer Modeling 14 2.4 Membrane Fouling 16 2.5 CO2 Solubility 17 2.6 Flue Gas Retention via Algae 17 2.7 Hollow-fibre Membranes in Flue Gas Biological Sequestration Applications ... 22 2.8 Algae Culturing 23 2.9 Algae Selection Criteria for Flue Gas Sequestration 25 2.10 Summary 26 Chapter 3: Method and Implementation 27 3.1 Method 27

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