Production of sustainable biofuels from microalgae with CO2 bio-sequestration and life cycle assessment

S Li, H Chang, S Zhang, SH Ho - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to anthropogenic emissions, there is an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide
(CO 2) in the atmosphere. Microalgae are versatile, universal, and photosynthetic …

New insights of crude oil biodegradation construction by microbial consortium B10: responded substrates, genomics, biodegradation mechanism and pathways

F Tang, H Zhang, H Cheng, Y Wang, Q Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Crude oil pollution caused by production and living demands has existed for decades, which
adverse to ecological security and human health. Microbial degradation of crude oil is a …

Prediction of the radiation characteristics and the light absorption rate of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cultivated under a progressive nitrogen starvation and …

FRF Ballestas, M Titica, J Legrand, L Pilon… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper aims to develop a new method to predict the radiation characteristics of the green
microalgae C. reinhardtii during progressive nitrogen starvation that accounts for the …

Light management by algal aggregates in living photosynthetic hydrogels

ST Chua, A Smith, S Murthy… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Rapid progress in algal biotechnology has triggered a growing interest in hydrogel-
encapsulated microalgal cultivation, especially for the engineering of functional …

Light absorption by Volvocaceae colonies consisting of equidistant optically soft photosynthetic cells in a transparent spherical extracellular matrix

J Hoeniges, A Bhowmik, RA Yalçin, VJ Partusch… - Algal Research, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to develop a methodology to predict the absorption cross-section of colonial
microalgae such as those of the Volvocaceae family including Eudorina, Pleodorina, and …

Removal of weed algal contamination in cultures of Botryococcus braunii with enlarged colonies using rotifers

K Furuhashi, R Takata, F Hasegawa, S Okada, Y Kaizu… - Algal Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We proposed a biological contamination control technology that preyed on and removed
only invading weed algae by introducing rotifers into the culture ponds of Botryococcus …

Laboratory-scale reproduction of lighting conditions for an outdoor vertical column photobioreactor: Theoretical fundamentals and operation of a programmable LED …

RJ Leonardi, MV Ibañez, EN Osella, JM Heinrich - Algal Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of tools aimed to predict the productivity of photobioreactors (PBRs)
implies immense efforts in the Algae Biotechnology field. Mainly, bubble column systems are …

The Assessment of the Real-Time Radiative Properties and Productivity of Limnospira platensis in Tubular Photobioreactors

MV Ibañez, RJ Leonardi, F Krujatz, JM Heinrich - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of tools to predict the photobioreactors'(PBRs) productivity is a significant
concern in biotechnology. To this end, it is required to know the light availability inside the …

Quasi-invariance of scattering properties of multicellular cyanobacterial aggregates

C Ma, Q Lu, YW Tong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01485, 2023 - arxiv.org
The radiative/scattering properties of cyanobacterial aggregates are crucial for
understanding microalgal cultivation. This study analyzed scattering matrix elements and …

Linking the Monte Carlo radiative transfer algorithm to the radiative transfer equation

PJ Valades-Pelayo, MA Ramirez-Cabrera… - Monte Carlo Methods …, 2023 - degruyter.com
This manuscript presents a short route to justify the widely used Monte Carlo Radiative
Transfer (MCRT) algorithm straight from the Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE). In this …