Input CO2 Concentration

Data in Table 7.1 present the effect of CO2 concentration of the input gas on biomass concentration and CO2 removal of cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. (Takano et al. 1992). When the CO2 concentration of the input gas increased from 0.03 to 0.55 %, the biomass concentration rose by 1.5-fold and the CO2 removal rate more than doubled. However, when the input gas concentration further increased from 0.55 to 1.10 %, only a slight increase in CO2 removal occurred (Takano et al. 1992). Furthermore, Fig. 7.4 shows the influence of the input CO2 content on S. obliquus WUST4 (Li et al. 2011) in the range of 6-18 %. The highest CO2 fixation efficiency (67 %) was achieved at 12-14 % CO2, indicating higher CO2 concentration is an inhibitory factor to CO2 fixation, and is an species — dependent variable tolerance.

PBR

Microalgae

T

Supplied

Gas flow

Cell

Biomass

Light intensity

CO2 fixation

Ref.

Type

Vol (L)

(°С)

co2 %

rate—^ min

density (|)

concentration (|)

(Lux)

rate (l~d)

V ertical bubble column

40

(17.)

40

5

10

1

1500

0.0124

Ong et al. (2010)

Vertical bubble column

40

(17.)

40

5

10

2

1500

0.0144

Ong et al. (2010)

Vertical bubble column

40

(17.)

40

5

10

3

1500

0.016S

Ong et al. (2010)

Vertical bubble column

40

(IS.)

40

5

10

1

1500

0.0109

Ong et al. (2010)

Vertical bubble column

40

(IS.)

40

5

10

2

1500

0.0148

Ong et al. (2010)

Vertical bubble column

40

(IS.)

40

5

10

3

1500

0.0177

Ong et al. (2010)

2.5

(7.)

0.55

soo

1.4

1.92

1250

1.06

Takano et al. (1992)

2.5

(7.)

0.55

soo

2.4

3

1250

1.52

Takano et al. (1992)

2.5

(7.)

0.55

soo

5.5

6.28

1250

1.9S

Takano et al. (1992)

2.5

(7.)

0.55

soo

6.76

7.76

1250

2.22

Takano et al. (1992)

Table 7.5 Effect of initial cell concentrations on C02 removal rates

Chlorella sp. MT-7 (17), Chlorella sp. MT-15 (18), and Synechoccus sp. (7)

C02 Environmental Bioremediation by Microalgae