PMID- 34120064
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210728
LR  - 20210728
IS  - 1873-2976 (Electronic)
IS  - 0960-8524 (Linking)
VI  - 337
DP  - 2021 Oct
TI  - Boosting photo-biochemical conversion and carbon dioxide bio-fixation of 
      Chlorella vulgaris in an optimized photobioreactor with airfoil-shaped 
      deflectors.
PG  - 125355
LID - S0960-8524(21)00695-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125355 [doi]
AB  - Aiming at ameliorating the poor hydrodynamic regimes and uneven light 
      distribution in the conventional airlift flat-plate photobioreactor (AFP-PBR), a 
      novel PBR with static airfoil-shaped deflectors (ASD-PBR) is proposed in this 
      study to boost the microalgal biomass manipulation and hence the 
      photo-biochemical conversion. The ASD module accelerated the circulation of 
      microalgal suspension from the center to two sides with the help of bubbling so 
      that the microalgal cells got more opportunities to access the light source. 
      Compared with the control PBR, the solution velocity along the incident light 
      direction increased by 114.8% in the newly-proposed ASD-PBR. Furthermore, the ASD 
      module also served as a static mixer, which resulted in an increment of 11.5% in 
      mass transfer coefficient and a decrement of 21.4% in mixing time. The amended 
      hydrodynamic characteristics eventually contributed to an improvement of 18.3% 
      and 10.9% in the maximum algal biomass yield and CO(2) fixation rate, 
      respectively.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Fu, Jingwei
AU  - Fu J
AD  - Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, 
      Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400044, China; Institute 
      of Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing 
      University, Chongqing 400044, China.
FAU - Huang, Yun
AU  - Huang Y
AD  - Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, 
      Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400044, China; Institute 
      of Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing 
      University, Chongqing 400044, China.
FAU - Liao, Qiang
AU  - Liao Q
AD  - Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, 
      Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400044, China; Institute 
      of Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing 
      University, Chongqing 400044, China. Electronic address: lqzx@cqu.edu.cn.
FAU - Zhu, Xun
AU  - Zhu X
AD  - Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, 
      Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400044, China; Institute 
      of Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing 
      University, Chongqing 400044, China.
FAU - Xia, Ao
AU  - Xia A
AD  - Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, 
      Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400044, China; Institute 
      of Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing 
      University, Chongqing 400044, China.
FAU - Zhu, Xianqing
AU  - Zhu X
AD  - Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, 
      Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400044, China; Institute 
      of Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing 
      University, Chongqing 400044, China.
FAU - Chang, Jo-Shu
AU  - Chang JS
AD  - Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung 
      407, Taiwan; Research Center for Smart Sustainable Circular Economy, Tunghai 
      University, Taichung 407, Taiwan; Department of Chemical Engineering, National 
      Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210601
PL  - England
TA  - Bioresour Technol
JT  - Bioresource technology
JID - 9889523
RN  - 142M471B3J (Carbon Dioxide)
SB  - IM
MH  - Biomass
MH  - Carbon Dioxide
MH  - *Chlorella vulgaris
MH  - *Microalgae
MH  - Photobioreactors
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Airfoil-shaped deflectors
OT  - CO(2) bio-fixation
OT  - Hydrodynamic characteristics
OT  - Microalgae
OT  - Photobioreactor
EDAT- 2021/06/14 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/29 06:00
CRDT- 2021/06/13 20:57
PHST- 2021/04/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/05/26 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/05/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/06/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/06/13 20:57 [entrez]
AID - S0960-8524(21)00695-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125355 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Bioresour Technol. 2021 Oct;337:125355. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125355. Epub 
      2021 Jun 1.