Microalgae cultivation in PBRs: experimental measurement of maintenance energy requirement as a function of light energy

Most relevant factors influencing microalgal growth are light availability and utilization. The concept of maintenance energy is essential to understand the energy requirements for cell growth and is also a key parameter of most mathematical growth models,including those used for large scale design.In this work continuous experiments were carried out in laboratory-scale flat-plate photobioreactors (PBRs, in order to investigate the effect of light intensity and irradiation regime on S.obliquus

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