Algal culture from laboratory to pilot plant : Edited by John S. Burlew. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 600. Washington, D.C. 1953. ix + 357 pp. 92 figs. Price $1.25.

✍ Scribed by P.V. Danckwerts

• Book ID: 103002919
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1956
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 122 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(56)80025-0

✦ Synopsis

Edited by JOHN S. BURLEW. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 6QQ. Washington, D.C. 1958. ix + 257 pp. 92 figs. Price $1.25. TEE large scale production of green algae by continuous culture under controlled conditions means in effect the translation of farming into chemical engineering terms. It i.. natural, therefore, that the project should be greeted with enthusiasm by chemical engineers, and with reserve by those whose business it is to improve the methods of conventional agriculture. This report is invaluable as a summary of the investigations which have been carried out since the end of the war, but it leaves unsettled the questions of whether, and ln what circumstances, the process may ever prove to be economic or quasi-economic.