High cell density culture of microalgae in horizontal thin-layer algal reactor: Modeling of light attenuation and cell growth kinetics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study delved into the light intensity effects and light attenuation modeling in high cell density culture (HCDC) of green alga Neochloris oleoabundans. The research primarily focused on how different light intensities influence cell growth in terms of cell division and cell mass, and the biochemical composition within the cells. Recognizing the need to avoid overestimating light path by excluding data point in the data zone where the light intensity was zero, we proposed and verified a novel modified Beer-Lambert model, which was superb in fitting experimental data and predicting light attenuation in both low and high cell density cultures. Taking advantage of the prediction power of the modified Beer-Lambert model, we devised an approach to maintain constant mean light intensity (Imean) and by adjusting the incident light intensity (I0). The results indicate that at an Imean of approximately 66.67 μmol/m2/s and 6 mm culture thickness, maximum volumetric and areal biomass productivities of 2.72 g/L/day and 16.32 g/m2/day, respectively, were achieved. Whereas the highest biomass concentration of 28.20 g/L was produced in 20 days at Imean 50 μmol/m2/s. Photoinhibition to cell division become evident at I0 750 μmol/m2/s and above. Using the data generated at constant Imean in the constant specific growth rate range, superb fitting to the Monod model with a R2 of 0.9910 was demonstrated, highlighting the importance of generating reliable data for the modelling of the kinetics of photoautotrophic growth of microalgae, which had considered to be challenging.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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