Microalgae as Sustainable Energy and Its Cultivation

The influence of hydraulic characteristics on algal bloom in three gorges reservoir, China: A combination of cultural experiments and field monitoring

“…However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has tested the hypothesis that large flow velocity will restrain the algae growth. On the contrary, it has been widely proposed by the industry of algae cultivation that algae could obtain sufficient light and grow faster when flow velocity reaches 2.0-3.0 m/s (Lundquist et al, 2010;Sawanta et al, 2018). In fact, the decrease Zm/Ze in flow velocity affects the sediment deposition (Humborg et al, 1997), water body renewal (Kawara et al, 1998) and nutrients retention (Dillon and Rigler, 1974), which can markedly affect the algae growth.…”