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Cultivation of Microalgae: Effects of Nutrient Focus on Biofuels

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Microbial Strategies for Techno-economic Biofuel Production

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Abstract

Several microalgae have potential to produce biofuels, carotenoids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, peptides, and phytosterols. Microalgae are capable of producing biofuels competently as another potential alternate as feedstock and may help to generate extra revenue, when its cultivation is handled scientifically at large-scale. The growth medium components, which is a major part of their cultivation, play a key role to improve its cellular components and mass accumulation. The medium components are varied according to the nature of microalgae, i.e., heterotrophic, autotrophic, and their nature of availability. In this chapter, nutritional factors, suitable compositions of media used for various microalgae cultivation, photosynthesis process, micronutrients requirements, and bioreactors for microalgae are discussed. For enhanced production of biofuels and bioactive compounds, optimized environmental conditions and nutritional factors for effective cultivation of microalgae have been revealed.

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Abbreviations

ATP:

Adenosine triphosphate

BBM:

Bold basal medium

BG 11:

Blue-green medium

E:

Energy

EDTA:

Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid

ESM:

Enriched sea water medium

h:

Plank’s constant

K medium:

Keller medium

kLa:

Mass transfer coefficient

MBM:

Modified Bristol Medium

MDM:

Modified Detmer’s Medium

NADPH2:

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

PBR:

Photobioreactor

PU:

Poly unsaturated fatty acids

TAP:

Tris–acetate–phosphate medium

TG-FA:

Triglyceride fatty acids

ν:

Frequency

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    Kishore Kumar Kadimpati & Sujatha Sanneboina

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Kadimpati, K.K., Sanneboina, S., Golla, N., Kumpati, R., Skarka, W. (2020). Cultivation of Microalgae: Effects of Nutrient Focus on Biofuels. In: Srivastava, N., Srivastava, M., Mishra, P.K., Gupta, V.K. (eds) Microbial Strategies for Techno-economic Biofuel Production. Clean Energy Production Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7190-9_4

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