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Spectral conversion of light for enhanced microalgae growth rates and photosynthetic pigment production
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The proposed illumination strategy offers improved microalgae growth without resorting to artificial light sources, reducing energy use and costs of cultivation.About:
This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 133 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Photosynthetic pigment & Chlorella vulgaris.read more
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A review of high value-added molecules production by microalgae in light of the classification.
TL;DR: This work reviews applications of high added value molecules produced from microalgae and proposes to linkmicroalgae phyla and related potential applications through highlighting of which bioactive compounds can be found in which phyla.
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Photon management for augmented photosynthesis
TL;DR: This work explores and reports emerging and promising material science and engineering innovations for augmenting microalgal photosynthesis and the potential to increase the productivity of algae cultivation systems used for industrial-scale biofuel synthesis.
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Impact of culture conditions on the chlorophyll content of microalgae for biotechnological applications.
TL;DR: An overview of the current knowledge on the effects of key environmental factors on microalgal chlorophyll accumulation, focusing on small-scale laboratory experiments is provided.
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Solar spectral conversion for improving the photosynthetic activity in algae reactors
Lothar Wondraczek,Miroslaw Batentschuk,Markus A. Schmidt,Rudolf Borchardt,Simon Scheiner,Benjamin Seemann,Peter Schweizer,Christoph J. Brabec +7 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that spectral conversion can be employed to significantly improve biomass growth and oxygen production rate in closed-cycle algae reactors and significantly increased photosynthetic activity and algae reproduction rate.
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Photon Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis: A Critical Review – Focus Review
TL;DR: In this article, the opportunities and challenges for these approaches (or combinations thereof) to achieve efficient solar upconversion are discussed and the opportunity for enhancing the performance of technologies such as luminescent solar concentrators by combining up-conversion together with micro-optics is also reviewed.
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Biodiesel from microalgae.
TL;DR: As demonstrated here, microalgae appear to be the only source of renewable biodiesel that is capable of meeting the global demand for transport fuels.
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New spectrophotometric equations for determining chlorophylls a, b, c1 and c2 in higher plants, algae and natural phytoplankton
S.W. Jeffrey,G.F. Humphrey +1 more
TL;DR: New equations are presented for spectrophotometric determination of chlorophylls, based on revised extinction coefficients of chloropylls a, b, c1 and c2, which may be used for determining chlorophyLLs a and b in higher plants and green algae.
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Cultivation, photobioreactor design and harvesting of microalgae for biodiesel production: A critical review
TL;DR: This review presents recent advances in microAlgal cultivation, photobioreactor design, and harvesting technologies with a focus on microalgal oil (mainly triglycerides) production and aims to provide useful information to help future development of efficient and commercially viable technology for microalgae-based biodiesel production.
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Biodiesel Production by Microalgal Biotechnology
TL;DR: An overview of the technologies in the production of biodiesel from microalgae, including the various modes of cultivation for theproduction of oil-rich microalgal biomass, as well as the subsequent downstream processing for biodiesel production is provided.
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Enhanced growth and lipid production of microalgae under mixotrophic culture condition: effect of light intensity, glucose concentration and fed-batch cultivation.
Benjamas Cheirsilp,Salwa Torpee +1 more
TL;DR: To produce a high amount of biomass with high lipid content, a fed-batch cultivation with stepwise increasing light intensity was performed and the lipid production was approximately twice that of conventional batch cultivation.