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    Two-stage cultivation of N-rich and N-deprived Acutodesmus obliquus biomass: Influence of cultivation and dewatering methods on microalgal biomass used in anaerobic digestion

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    2016-07
    Author
    Gruber-Brunhumer, M.
    Nussbaumer, M.
    Jerney, J.
    Ludwig, I.
    Zohar, E.
    Lang, I.
    Bochmann, G.
    Schagerl, M.
    Obbard, J.P.
    Fuchs, W.
    Drosg, B.
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    Microalgae can be manipulated to accumulate certain cellular compounds of interest without the need for genetic modification - simply by controlling growth parameters such as nitrogen (N). Therefore, A. obliquus was batch-cultivated in a sleevebag photobioreactor system in N-deprived and N-rich medium to test the effect of N-status on CH4 yield under anaerobic digestion. Two different dewatering methods, i.e., centrifugation and sedimentation were applied to each resulting biomass. For the N-deprived biomass, cellular protein content dropped by 42–49%, and lipids increased up to 20% relative to the N-rich biomass. The highest CH4 yields were achieved with N-deprived, sedimented biomass (391 Nm3 t− 1 VS = normalized gas volume in m3 corrected to norm temperature and pressure per unit volatile solids), followed by N-rich sedimented biomass (361 Nm3 t− 1 VS). Centrifugation led to lower CH4 yields, where N-deprived biomass achieved 280 compared to 200 Nm3 t− 1 VS for N-rich microalgae. Our data indicate that valuable organic material was lost to the supernatant during the centrifugation step. We conclude that not only the N-status of cultivation, but also the biomass dewatering method has an instrumental effect on CH4 yield of microalgal biomass in anaerobic digestion.
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    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211926416301400
    DOI/handle
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2016.04.016
    http://hdl.handle.net/10576/5512
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