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Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor
Air-cushion (AC) packaging has become widely used worldwide. ACs are air-filled, dual plastic packaging solutions commonly found surrounding and protecting items of value within shipping enclosures during transit. Herein, we report on a laboratory assessment employing ACs as a microalgal photobiorea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9992509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36882465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30080-6 |
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author | Merz, Clifford R. Arora, Neha Welch, Michael Lo, Enlin Philippidis, George P. |
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description | Air-cushion (AC) packaging has become widely used worldwide. ACs are air-filled, dual plastic packaging solutions commonly found surrounding and protecting items of value within shipping enclosures during transit. Herein, we report on a laboratory assessment employing ACs as a microalgal photobioreactor (PBR). Such a PBR inherently addresses many of the operational issues typically encountered with open raceway ponds and closed photobioreactors, such as evaporative water loss, external contamination, and predation. Using half-filled ACs, the performance of microalgal species Chlorella vulgaris, Nannochloropsis oculata, and Cyclotella cryptica (diatom) was examined and the ash-free dry cell weight and overall biomass productivity determined to be 2.39 g/L and 298.55 mg/L/day for N. oculata, 0.85 g/L and 141.36 mg/L/day for C. vulgaris, and 0.67 g/L and 96.08 mg/L/day for C. cryptica. Furthermore, maximum lipid productivity of 25.54 mg/L/day AFDCW and carbohydrate productivity of 53.69 mg/L/day AFDCW were achieved by C. cryptica, while maximum protein productivity of 247.42 mg/L/day AFDCW was attained by N. oculata. Data from this work will be useful in determining the applicability and life-cycle profile of repurposed and reused ACs as potential microalgal photobioreactors depending upon the end product of interest, scale utilized, and production costs. |
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spelling | pubmed-99925092023-03-09 Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor Merz, Clifford R. Arora, Neha Welch, Michael Lo, Enlin Philippidis, George P. Sci Rep Article Air-cushion (AC) packaging has become widely used worldwide. ACs are air-filled, dual plastic packaging solutions commonly found surrounding and protecting items of value within shipping enclosures during transit. Herein, we report on a laboratory assessment employing ACs as a microalgal photobioreactor (PBR). Such a PBR inherently addresses many of the operational issues typically encountered with open raceway ponds and closed photobioreactors, such as evaporative water loss, external contamination, and predation. Using half-filled ACs, the performance of microalgal species Chlorella vulgaris, Nannochloropsis oculata, and Cyclotella cryptica (diatom) was examined and the ash-free dry cell weight and overall biomass productivity determined to be 2.39 g/L and 298.55 mg/L/day for N. oculata, 0.85 g/L and 141.36 mg/L/day for C. vulgaris, and 0.67 g/L and 96.08 mg/L/day for C. cryptica. Furthermore, maximum lipid productivity of 25.54 mg/L/day AFDCW and carbohydrate productivity of 53.69 mg/L/day AFDCW were achieved by C. cryptica, while maximum protein productivity of 247.42 mg/L/day AFDCW was attained by N. oculata. Data from this work will be useful in determining the applicability and life-cycle profile of repurposed and reused ACs as potential microalgal photobioreactors depending upon the end product of interest, scale utilized, and production costs. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9992509/ /pubmed/36882465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30080-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Merz, Clifford R. Arora, Neha Welch, Michael Lo, Enlin Philippidis, George P. Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor |
title | Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor |
title_full | Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor |
title_fullStr | Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor |
title_full_unstemmed | Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor |
title_short | Microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor |
title_sort | microalgal cultivation characteristics using commercially available air-cushion packaging material as a photobioreactor |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9992509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36882465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30080-6 |
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