论文类型：期刊论文
发表时间：2018-10-01
发表刊物：APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
收录刊物：PubMed、SCIE
卷号：102
期号：20
页面范围：8979-8987
ISSN号：0175-7598
关键字：Bicarbonate; Spirulina platensis; Floating PBR; Scale up; Wave energy
摘要：A low-cost floating photobioreactor (PBR) without the use of aeration and/or an agitation device, in which carbon was supplied in the form of bicarbonate and only wave energy was utilized for mixing, was developed in our previous study. Scaling up is a common challenge in the practical application of PBRs and has not yet been demonstrated for this new design. To fill this gap, cultivation of Spirulina platensis was conducted in this study. The results demonstrated that S. platensis had the highest productivity at 0.3molL(-1) sodium bicarbonate, but the highest carbon utilization (104 +/- 2.6%) was obtained at 0.1molL(-1). Culture of Spirulina aerated with pure oxygen resulted in only minor inhibition of growth, indicating that its productivity will not be significantly reduced even if dissolved oxygen is accumulated to a high level due to intermittent mixing resulting from the use of wave energy. In cultivation using a floating horizontal photobioreactor at the 1.0m(2) scale, the highest biomass concentration of 2.24 +/- 0.05gL(-1) was obtained with a culture depth of 5.0cm and the highest biomass productivity of 18.9gm(-2)day(-1) was obtained with a depth of 10.0cm. This PBR was scaled up to 10m(2) (1000L) with few challenges; biomass concentration and productivity during ocean testing were little different than those at the 1.0m(2) (100L) scale. However, the larger PBR had an apparent carbon utilization efficiency of 45.0 +/- 2.8%, significantly higher than the 39.4 +/- 0.9% obtained at the 1m(2) scale. These results verified the ease of scaling up floating horizontal photobioreactors and showed their great potential in commercial applications.
