How do microalgae perceive light in a high-rate pond? Towards more realistic Lagrangian experiments.

ABSTRACT: Hydrodynamics in a high-rate production reactor for microalgae cultivation affects the light history perceived by cells. The interplay between cell movement and medium turbidity leads to a complex light pattern, whose forcing effects on photosynthesis and photoacclimation dynamics are non-trivial. Hydrodynamics of high density algal ponds mixed by a paddle wheel has been studied recently, although the focus has never been on describing its impact on photosynthetic growth efficiency. In this multidisciplinary downscaling study, we first reconstructed single cell trajectories in an open raceway using an original hydrodynamical model offering a powerful discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations tailored to systems with free surfaces. The trajectory of a particular cell was selected and th

SUBMITTER: Demory D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990726 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature