@article{10272/24953,
year = {2011},
month = {2},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24953},
abstract = {The productivity of a vertical outdoor photobioreactor was quantitatively assessed and compared to a horizontal reactor. Daily light cycles in southern Spain were simulated and applied to grow the microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana in a flat panel photobioreactor.
The maximal irradiance around noon differs from 400 micromol photons m-2 s-1 in the vertical position to 1800 micromol photons m-2 s-1 in the horizontal position. The highest volumetric productivity was achieved in the simulated horizontal position, 4 g kg culture-1 d-1. The highest photosynthetic efficiency was found for the vertical simulation, 1.3 g of biomass produced per mol of PAR photons supplied, which compares favorably to the horizontal position (0.85 g mol-1) and to the theoretical maximal yield (1.8 g mol-1). These results prove that productivity per unit of ground area could be greatly enhanced by placing the photobioreactors vertically.},
organization = {This work was financially supported by the University of Huelva and Junta de Andalucía (Proyectos de Excelencia, AGR-4337) in Spain, and a SenterNovem subsidy (the Netherlands) in the frame of the ‘‘Unieke Kans Regeling’’ program, Grant No. 02013, with Technogrow BV as industrial partner.},
publisher = {Elsevier},
title = {Horizontal or vertical photobioreactors? How to improve microalgae photosynthetic efficiency},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2011.01.078},
author = {Cuaresma Franco, María and Janssen, Marcel and Vílchez Lobato, Carlos and Wijffels, René H.},
}