Microalgae are the principal producers of biomass in aquatic environments, ensuring the survival of life on Earth. They have gained significant attention worldwide due to their vast biopharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and renewable energy applications. Open and closed photobioreactors (PBRs) are used to cultivate microalgae, which is a complicated method where biological, environmental, and design variables affect
Microalgae have a broad spectrum of potential applications, such as for human consumption, aquaculture feed, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. The utilisation of microalgae offers a sustainable approach due to their ability to fixate CO2 and uptake inorganic nitrogen and phosphorous sources from wastewater. The freshwater microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis is of explicit industrial interest due to its
Due to the complex dynamics of the growth of microalgae a sophisticated control method is needed, to achieve the maximum yield out of a microalgae plant. Model-predictive control (MPC) is a powerful tool gaining a lot of attention in the field of modern control systems. With the help of an underlying model predicting the system
Microalgae constitute the basis of life, in a variety of marine and freshwater ecosystems. They are efficient cell factories, the majority operating photosynthetically to turn light energy and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) with simple inorganic nutrients into biomass. Moreover, they have great potential for the production of industrially relevant high-value products such as proteins, polysaccharides,
Photosynthesis is the process that harnesses the energy of photons that hit the Earth’s surface to split water and produce molecular oxygen that energizes the atmosphere while forming the biomass that sustains all the food chain in the form of biomass, and our economies and lifestyle in the form of fossil fuels. Most oxygenic photosynthetic
