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Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects
To disclose the net effect of light on microalgal growth in photobioreactors, self-shading and mixing-induced light–dark cycles must be minimized and discerned from the transient phenomena of acclimation. In this work, we performed experiments of continuous microalgal cultivation in small-scale phot...
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author | Saccardo, Alberto Bezzo, Fabrizio Sforza, Eleonora |
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description | To disclose the net effect of light on microalgal growth in photobioreactors, self-shading and mixing-induced light–dark cycles must be minimized and discerned from the transient phenomena of acclimation. In this work, we performed experiments of continuous microalgal cultivation in small-scale photobioreactors with different thicknesses (from 2 to 35 mm): working at a steady state allowed us to describe the effect of light after acclimation, while the geometry of the reactor was adjusted to find the threshold light path that can discriminate different phenomena. Experiments showed an increased inhibition under smaller culture light paths, suggesting a strong shading effect at thicknesses higher than 8 mm where mixing-induced light–dark cycles may occur. A Haldane-like model was applied and kinetic parameters retrieved, showing possible issues in the scalability of experimental results at different light paths if mixing-induced light–dark cycles are not considered. To further highlight the influence of mixing cycles, we proposed an analogy between small-scale operations with continuous light and PBR operations with pulsed light, with the computation of characteristic parameters from pulsed-light microalgae growth mathematical modeling. |
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spelling | pubmed-94029692022-08-26 Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects Saccardo, Alberto Bezzo, Fabrizio Sforza, Eleonora Front Bioeng Biotechnol Bioengineering and Biotechnology To disclose the net effect of light on microalgal growth in photobioreactors, self-shading and mixing-induced light–dark cycles must be minimized and discerned from the transient phenomena of acclimation. In this work, we performed experiments of continuous microalgal cultivation in small-scale photobioreactors with different thicknesses (from 2 to 35 mm): working at a steady state allowed us to describe the effect of light after acclimation, while the geometry of the reactor was adjusted to find the threshold light path that can discriminate different phenomena. Experiments showed an increased inhibition under smaller culture light paths, suggesting a strong shading effect at thicknesses higher than 8 mm where mixing-induced light–dark cycles may occur. A Haldane-like model was applied and kinetic parameters retrieved, showing possible issues in the scalability of experimental results at different light paths if mixing-induced light–dark cycles are not considered. To further highlight the influence of mixing cycles, we proposed an analogy between small-scale operations with continuous light and PBR operations with pulsed light, with the computation of characteristic parameters from pulsed-light microalgae growth mathematical modeling. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9402969/ /pubmed/36032730 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2022.977429 Text en Copyright © 2022 Saccardo, Bezzo and Sforza. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Bioengineering and Biotechnology Saccardo, Alberto Bezzo, Fabrizio Sforza, Eleonora Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects |
title | Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects |
title_full | Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects |
title_fullStr | Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects |
title_full_unstemmed | Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects |
title_short | Microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects |
title_sort | microalgae growth in ultra-thin steady-state continuous photobioreactors: assessing self-shading effects |
topic | Bioengineering and Biotechnology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9402969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36032730 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2022.977429 |
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