Harvesting of Scenedesmus obliquus cultivated in seawater using electro-flotation

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• 作者：Heewon Shin ; Kyochan Kim ; Joo-Young Jung…
• 关键词：Scenedesmus obliquus ; Harvest ; Seawater ; Electro ; flotation (EF) ; Electro ; coagulation ; flotation (ECF)
• 刊名：Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：34
• 期：1
• 页码：62-65
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Catalysis; Materials Science, general; Biotechnology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1975-7220
• 卷排序：34

文摘

Seawater, when supplemented to a growth medium, appears to stimulate auto-flocculation of a certain microalgae species like Scenedesmus obliquus and thus renders its harvesting easy. To make use of this unique response for the purpose of biomass harvesting, S. obliquus was grown in a seawater-added medium and then collected in electrochemically- mediated ways. Significantly higher harvesting efficiency and energy saving were observed with electroflotation (EF) than with electro-coagulation-flotation (ECF) and the standard BG11 medium. An optimal EF condition, the highest recovery rate with least energy use, was found with a supply of 0.5 A. Seawater amendment was most beneficial in a level of 10%. All this clearly showed that applying EF to cells cultivated in the seawater-supplemented medium is a promising harvesting means that enables one to obtain algae biomass without interfering with the downstream process of biodiesel production.