A Two-Stage System for the Large-Scale Cultivation of Biomass: a Design and Operation Analysis Based on a Simple Steady-State Model Tuned on Laboratory Measurements

Microalgae and Sustainability

“…These distributions are determined by the external environment conditions, fluid flow, physical system geometry, and internal system generation terms. Many mathematical models to predict the growth of microalgae in photobioreactors have been proposed [25,26]. As an example of recent progress, a mathematical model was presented by Kava-Cordeiro & Vargas [27] to contemplate the possibility of genetic modification in microalgae to improve some aspect of interest (e.g., increase of lipid content, biohydrogen production).…”