{"id":407,"date":"2007-02-22T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2007-02-22T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T19:19:00","slug":"performance-of-flat-plate-air-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/performance-of-flat-plate-air-lift.html","title":{"rendered":"Performance of flat plate, air-lift reactor for the growth of high biomass algal cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Performance of a flat plate, air-lift reactor for the growth of high biomass algal cultures <\/strong><\/p>\n

Journal – Journal of Applied Phycology<\/a>
Publisher – Springer Netherlands<\/p>\n

Issue – Volume 4, Number 1 \/ March, 1992<\/a>
DOI – 10.1007\/BF00003954<\/p>\n

Performance of a flat plate, air-lift reactor for the growth of high biomass algal cultures<\/p>\n

Iain A. J. Ratchford1 and Howard J. Fallowfield1
<\/a>(1)
Department of Biochemical Sciences, The Scottish Agricultural College, Auchincruive, Ayr, KA6 5HW, UK<\/p>\n

Received: 14 August 1991 Revised: 11 October 1991 Accepted: 20 October 1991<\/p>\n

SpringerLink Date – Friday, July 28, 2006<\/p>\n

<\/a>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

A flat plate, multi-pass air lift reactor (FPALR) for the culture of photosynthetic organisms was constructed from twin wall acrylic sheet and its performance characterised. When operated at an air input of 2.01 min\u22121 the multi-pass system had a Reynolds number of 5200 indicating fully turbulent flow. Chlorella vulgaris 211\/11c was found to have a stationary phase biomass of 1.48 g 1\u22121 when grown in the flat plate air lift reactor (FPALR) at 100 \u00b5mol m\u22122s\u22121 compared to 1.11 g 1\u22121 when cultured in the continually stirred tank reactor (CSTR) at the same PFD (photon flux density). The same organism cultured at 200 \u00b5mol m\u22122s\u22121 achieved a stationary phase biomass of 1.71 g 1\u22121 in the FPALR. In contrast, Scenedesmus sp. produced a stationary phase biomass of 2.27 g1\u22121 and 1.27 g1\u22121, when cultured at 100 \u00b5mol m\u22122s\u22121 in the FPALR and the CSTR respectively. The growth rates of both organisms were also higher in the PFALR.<\/p>\n

Key words photobioreactor – flat plate air-lift reactor – Chlorella – Synechococcus – hydraulic characteristics – photosynthesis<\/p>\n

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