The problem of global warming and the emission of greenhouse gases is already directly
affecting the world's energy. In the future, the impact of CO 2 emissions on the world …

Algal technology has potential to combat the global energy crisis, malnutrition, and
production of several value added products useful for the mankind. The cost effective …

Many studies have developed mathematical programming models for optimal design of
supply chains for agricultural or lingocellulosic biomass-derived bioethanol production …

The cultivation efforts within the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts
(NAABB) were developed to provide four major goals for the consortium, which included …

Widespread cultivation of phototrophic microalgae for sustainable production of a variety of
renewable products, for wastewater treatment, and for atmospheric carbon mitigation …

Raceway pond is the most widely used for large scale microalgae culture. In the present
study, the Particle Image Velocimetry technology was used to validate the reliability of the …

Optimisation and upscaling of biohydrogen production in externally pumped-recirculated
photobioreactors (PBRs) are hampered by the infeasible computational cost of coupling …

In this work, the design and hydrodynamic of a 500 m 2 raceway bioreactor were optimized
using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). First, the influence of the bend type (traditional …

The energy input into closed photobioreactors (PBRs) for aeration and/or agitation by
pneumatic and mechanical devices impacts their material, operational and production costs …

In the present study, a novel technique, which involves numerical computation of the mixing
length of algae particles in raceway ponds, was used to evaluate the mixing process. A …