AbstractMicroalgae culture is likely to play an important role in aquatic food production modules in bioregenerative systems for producing feeds for fish, converting CO2 to O2 and remedying water quality as well as aquatic higher plants. In the present study, the effects of culture conditions on the cellular multiplication of microalgae, Euglena gracilis, was investigated as a fundamental study to determine the optimum culture conditions for microalgae production in aquatic food production modules including both microalgae culture and fish culture systems. E. gracilis was cultured under conditions with five levels of temperatures (25–33°C), three levels of CO2 concentrations (2–6%), five levels of O2 concentrations (10–30%), and six levels of photosynthetic photon flux (20–200μmolm−2s−1). The number of Euglena cells in a certain volume of solution was monitored with a microscope under each environmental condition. The multiplication rate of the cells was highest at temperatures of 27–31°C, CO2 concentration of 4%, O2 concentration of 20% and photosynthetic photon flux of about 100μmolm−2s−1. The results demonstrate that E. gracilis could efficiently produce biomass and convert CO2 to O2 under relatively low light intensities in aquatic food production modules.
Effects of temperature, CO2/O2 concentrations and light intensity on cellular multiplication of microalgae, Euglena gracilis
Advances in Space Research ; 35 , 9 ; 1584-1588
2005-03-09
5 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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