F.G. Acién Fernández

TL;DR: Economics of monoseptic production of microalgae in photobioreactors and the downstream recovery of metabolites are discussed using eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) recovery as a representative case study.

TL;DR: Design and scaleup of tubular photobioreactors are discussed for outdoor culture of microalgae and potential scaleup approaches are outlined including promising novel concepts based on fundamentals of the unavoidable light-dark cycling of the culture.

TL;DR: A model is developed for prediction of axial concentration profiles of dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide in tubular photobioreactors used for culturing microalgae and could potentially be applied to rational design and scale-up of photobiOREactors.

TL;DR: It is suggested that, in the current state of the art, microalgae could compete with marigold even without counting on any of the improvements in microalgal technology that can be expected in the near future.

TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology is presented for designing photobioreactors with tubular loop solar receivers in which the fluid is circulated by an air-lifting device, which effectively combines the relevant aspects of external irradiance-dependent cell growth, oxygen accumulation in the solar loop, oxygen removal in the air-lifting device, and hydrodynamics of the airlift system that determine the flow velocity through the solar receiver.