Improved lipid and biomass productivities in Chlorella vulgaris by differing the inoculation medium from the production medium

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Please cite this article as: Hamedi S., Mahdavi M.A., Gheshlaghi R. Improved lipid and biomass productivities in Chlorella vulgaris by differing inoculation medium from production medium. Biofuel Research Journal 10 (2016) HIGHLIGHTSUsing different media for inoculums preparation and microalgae production improved lipid and biomass productivities.When SH4 was selected for inoculation medium and N8 was selected for production medium, 130% increase in biomass productivity and 40% increase in lipid productivity was observed. Specific growth rate improved by differing inoculums preparation medium from production medium and changed from 0.0040/h to 0.0122/h. Improvement of biomass and lipid productivities is now one of the main concerns in commercialization of microalgae cultivation as a feedstock for algal biofuel production. Conventional photoautotrophic processes using well-studied and rich in oil strain of Chlorella vulgaris are not able to meet such demands. A new strategy of inoculating algae production medium with cells grown in a different medium from the production medium was proposed herein. More specifically, when SH4 was used as production medium and N8 was used as inoculation medium, biomass and lipid productivities increased by 2.33 folds and 1.44 folds, respectively, compared with when the production and inoculation media were the same, such as SH4. The findings of the present investigation showed that this cultivation scheme resulted in 52% increase in cell number and 54% increase in dry weight leading to improved productivities. Although by even considering this improvement, photoautotrophic cultivation of algae can hardly compete with the heterotrophic cultivation, the high cost of hydrocarbon supply required in large-scale heterotrophic processes marks the technique proposed in the present study as a promising approach for commercialization of algal biofuel production. ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT © 2016 BRTeam. All rights reserved.Journal homepage: www.biofueljournal.com Hamedi et al. / Biofuel Research Journal 10 (2016) 410-416 Please cite this article as: Hamedi S., Mahdavi M.A., Gheshlaghi R. Improved lipid and biomass productivities in Chlorella vulgaris by differing inoculation medium from production medium.

Investigation of the influence of microalgal culture medium on biomass production

“…was increased to 1.56 g/L compared to the control sample of 1.31 g/L when the concentration of P in the culture media was 1500 mg/L. Meanwhile, the findings of Hamedi et al, 2016 showed that changing the medium, compared to the standard BG11 helped increase the number of C. vulgaris cells by 52% and dry weight by 54% (Hamedi et al, 2016;Li et al, 2019).…”