Kraft black liquor for improving the productivity ofSpirulinabiomass

✍ Scribed by Gurbaksh Singh; Vikas S. Chauhan; V. Ramamurthy

• Book ID: 104633949
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 360 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00130367

✦ Synopsis

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hIass cultivation of SpiniIina ior commercial application suffers from poor productivity when measured against laboratory results or theoretical prqjections. Wider applications of algal products require that this gap k reduced. Addition of eucalypttn kraft black liquor at a ma.ximum of O.l?G to Spwulit~a cultures enhanced biomass productivity by at least 469-a. The factors enhancing Spirulinu biomass productivity were insoluble at low pH, of low molecular mass and stable to hi& temperature. Single addition of kraft black liqmr in outdoor continuous cultures afforded sustained enhancement in biomass productivity for at least eight weeks.