Photosynthetic microorganisms are important bioresources for producing desirable and
environmentally benign products, and photobioreactors (PBRs) play important roles in these …

The ability to model algal productivity under transient conditions of light intensity and
temperature is critical for assessing the profitability and sustainability of full-scale algae …

Microalgae are a diverse group of prokaryotic and eukaryotic photosynthetic
microorganisms that grow rapidly due to their simple structure. They can potentially be …

Despite attracting many attentions in the past decades, microalgal cultivation still faces many
challenges for industrialisation. Growth, as one of the most crucial characteristics of a …

This review outlines the current status and recent developments in the technology of
microalgal culturing in enclosed photobioreactors. Light distribution and mixing are the …

Over the past ten years a great deal of literature has focused on the biotechnological
potential of microalgal commercial applications, mainly in the field of biofuel production …

This article is a critical review of the state-of-the-art of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
used to investigate bioreactors that produce biomethane and biohydrogen by means of …

Air-lift reactors (ALRs) have great potential for industrial bioprocesses, because of the low
level and homogeneous distribution of hydrodynamic shear. One growing field of application …

The growth response of Chlorella sorokiniana to certain irradiance, DO, and temperature
demonstrated the possible causes of low productivity with this strain in outdoor cultures. The …

The concentric-tube internal loop airlift reactor is a typical reactor configuration which has
been adopted for a myriad of chemical and biological processes. The reactor …