Abstract
An outdoor experimental system for continuous culture of the marine microalga Tetraselmis sp. is described. The influence of dilution rate, initial biomass concentration and the intensity of solar radiation on the amount of biomass obtained was examined. The average rate of production of cells, G m, is a parabolic function of the dilution rate and reached a maximum value at D = 0.09 h −1. The intensity of light, I o, influences productivity up to approximately 100 W/m 2, above which saturation was observed. The experimental results G m- I o were adjusted to an exponential model for light-restricted growth. The average rate of production of cells, versus the initial biomass concentration, C o, reached a maximum value. G m decreased as C o increased to high cell density values due to light limitation and when C o decreased to low cell density values due to decreased efficiency in the use of incident solar radiation.
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