{"id":1547,"date":"2010-04-08T05:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2010-04-08T05:51:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:51:18","slug":"photo-bioreactor-for-co2-sequestration-from-combustion-gas-coupled-with-wastewater-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/photo-bioreactor-for-co2-sequestration-from-combustion-gas-coupled-with-wastewater-treatment.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo-bioreactor for CO2 Sequestration from Combustion Gas Coupled with Wastewater Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting research article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/123270766\/abstract\">A hollow fiber membrane photo-bioreactor for CO<sub>2<\/sub> sequestration from combustion gas coupled with wastewater treatment: a  process engineering approach<\/a>&#8221; by researchers from Department of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of  Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.<\/p>\n<p><em><a name=\"abstract\">Abstract &#8211; <\/a><\/em> In the  presence of light, micro-algae convert  CO<sub>2<\/sub> and nutrients to  biomass that can be used as a biofuel.  In closed photo-bioreactors,  however, light and CO<sub>2<\/sub> availability often limit algae  production and can be difficult to  control using traditional diffuser  systems. In this research, a hollow  fiber membrane photo-bioreactor  (HFMPB) was investigated to: (1)  increase the interfacial contact area  available for gas transfer, (2)  treat high nutrient strength (412 mg NO<sub>3<\/sub><sup>&#8211;<\/sup>-N  L<sup>-1<\/sup>)  wastewater, and (3) produce algal biomass that can be  used as a  biofuel.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the above link to know about the result of the experiment.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 38px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"819\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting research article entitled &#8220;A hollow fiber membrane photo-bioreactor for CO2 sequestration from combustion gas coupled with wastewater treatment: a process engineering approach&#8221; by researchers from Department of Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Abstract &#8211; In the presence of light, micro-algae convert CO2 and nutrients to biomass that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}