Production technology ofScenedesmus acutusin the Indian context

✍ Scribed by B. P. Nigan; P. K. Ramanathan; L. V. Venkataraman

• Book ID: 104633615
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 357 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00129541

✦ Synopsis

The West German 'Dortmund' production procedure for the green alga Scenedesmus acutus has been practically evaluated under Indian conditions utilising 179 m 2 of cultivable area to produce about 26.7 kg of dried algae per week.

For a 16 day outdoor production schedule, cleaning of cultivation tanks takes 27% of the total man hours required, and indoors inoculum preparation takes 20%.

Electrical energy consumption depends mainly on the drying mode used but irrespective of any change in the system the cost structure remains high for Indian contexts.