{"id":3572,"date":"2011-08-05T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2011-08-05T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:42:42","slug":"contamination-in-open-ponds-for-algae-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/contamination-in-open-ponds-for-algae-cultivation.html","title":{"rendered":"Contamination in Open ponds for Algae Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adapted from &#8211; Algae Fuels Community @ CleanTick &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/franc\/pages\/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation\">http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/franc\/pages\/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the issues that is being encountered in open pond-algal  cultivation is the contamination. Contamination of ponds can be a result  of:\u00a0 a)\u00a0 Infiltration from local algae and other organisms\u00a0 b) Dust particles, leaves and other airborne materials<\/p>\n<p>For instance, although the algal species grown commercially in outdoor  ponds generally grow under highly selective conditions (Chlorella Spp.,  Nannochlorpsis and P. tricornutum are grown at high nutrient  concentrations, Spirulina is grown at high bicarbonate concentrations  and a high pH, and D. salina is grown at very high salinities)  contamination by other unwanted algal species is common. Thus, while the capital costs for setting up an open pond algae farm are  low, the threat of contamination of the desirable algal oil producing  species, by invasive species remains high. The contaminants not only  belong to non-biological sources but also from the various biological  and other algae species that might become invasive.<\/p>\n<p>More &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/franc\/pages\/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation\"> http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/franc\/pages\/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adapted from &#8211; Algae Fuels Community @ CleanTick &#8211; http:\/\/www.cleantick.com\/users\/franc\/pages\/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation One of the issues that is being encountered in open pond-algal cultivation is the contamination. Contamination of ponds can be a result of:\u00a0 a)\u00a0 Infiltration from local algae and other organisms\u00a0 b) Dust particles, leaves and other airborne materials For instance, although the algal species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-cultivation","category-algae-cultivation-open-pond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}