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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells immobilized in Ba-alginate beads provide a stable and effective system for photoproducing ammonium from nitrite in a culture medium containing l-methionine-d,l-sulphoximine. The process was studied in either air-lift, fluidized or packed-bed reactors, the last one providing the most suitable system with a volumetric activity of 2700 μmol NH sup4inf+ ·1−1 per hour.
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Santos-Rosa, F., Galván, F. & Vega, J.M. Photoproduction of ammonium by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells immobilized in barium alginate: a reactor feasibility study. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 32, 285–290 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00184975
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