{"id":5993,"date":"2016-11-22T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T11:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5993"},"modified":"2016-11-22T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T11:10:03","slug":"increased-carbon-capture-capacity-of-alkaline-microalgae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/increased-carbon-capture-capacity-of-alkaline-microalgae.html","title":{"rendered":"Increased Carbon Capture Capacity of Alkaline Microalgae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highly alkaline solutions (pH \u2265 10) absorb CO<sub>2<\/sub> rapidly from atmosphere. Hence, alkaliphilic microalgal strains, which thrive and grow in alkaline media, constitute an efficient means of atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5691 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Algae-CO2-capture-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Algae CO2 capture\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Algae-CO2-capture-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Algae-CO2-capture-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>capture.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, scientists from Toledo performed an experiment where effect of increasing the media alkalinity on algal growth and the resulting improvement in CO<sub>2<\/sub> sequestration was evaluated by cultivating alkaliphilic microalgae\u00a0<em>Chlorella Spp.<\/em> in open ponds under pH uncontrolled conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Results indicated that maintaining higher alkalinity for growth medium during open-pond cultivation of alkaliphilic algae is a valuable strategy that leads improved biomass productivity as well as superior atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> capture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sim.confex.com\/sim\/38th\/webprogram\/Paper32080.html\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly alkaline solutions (pH \u2265 10) absorb CO2 rapidly from atmosphere. Hence, alkaliphilic microalgal strains, which thrive and grow in alkaline media, constitute an efficient means of atmospheric CO2 capture. In this study, scientists from Toledo performed an experiment where effect of increasing the media alkalinity on algal growth and the resulting improvement in CO2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,10,4],"tags":[279,99],"class_list":["post-5993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-carbon-capture","category-algae-co2-capture","category-algae-cultivation","tag-algae-cultivation-2","tag-co2-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5994,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions\/5994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}