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Rady HA, Ali SS, El-Sheekh MM. Strategies to enhance biohydrogen production from microalgae: A comprehensive review. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 356:120611. [PMID: 38508014 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 03/10/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
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Microalgae represent a promising renewable feedstock for the sustainable production of biohydrogen. Their high growth rates and ability to fix carbon utilizing just sunlight, water, and nutrients make them well-suited for this application. Recent advancements have focused on improving microalgal hydrogen yields and cultivation methods. This review aims to summarize recent developments in microalgal cultivation techniques and genetic engineering strategies for enhanced biohydrogen production. Specific areas of focus include novel microalgal species selection, immobilization methods, integrated hybrid systems, and metabolic engineering. Studies related to microalgal strain selection, cultivation methods, metabolic engineering, and genetic manipulations were compiled and analyzed. Promising microalgal species with high hydrogen production capabilities such as Synechocystis sp., Anabaena variabilis, and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have been identified. Immobilization techniques like encapsulation in alginate and integration with dark fermentation have led to improved hydrogen yields. Metabolic engineering through modulation of hydrogenase activity and photosynthetic pathways shows potential for enhanced biohydrogen productivity. Considerable progress has been made in developing microalgal systems for biohydrogen. However, challenges around process optimization and scale-up remain. Future work involving metabolic modeling, photobioreactor design, and genetic engineering of electron transfer pathways could help realize the full potential of this renewable technology.
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- Hadeer A Rady
- Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt
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- Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt
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- Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, 31527, Egypt.
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Cho BA, Moreno-Cabezuelo JÁ, Mills LA, del Río Chanona EA, Lea-Smith DJ, Zhang D. Integrated experimental and photo-mechanistic modelling of biomass and optical density production of fast versus slow growing model cyanobacteria. ALGAL RES 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2023.102997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Feng A, Zhang T, Zhu Q, Ye X, Liu C. Development of a novel airlift photobioreactor (AL‐PBR): modelling, PIV measurements and cultures. Chem Eng Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ceat.202100639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Aiguo Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology Tianjin University Tianjin 300072 PR China
- College of Food Science and Engineering Hainan University Haikou 570228 PR China
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- College of Civil Engineering Liaoning Technical University Fuxin 123000 PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering Hainan University Haikou 570228 PR China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering Hainan University Haikou 570228 PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology Tianjin University Tianjin 300072 PR China
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Veerabadhran M, Natesan S, MubarakAli D, Xu S, Yang F. Using different cultivation strategies and methods for the production of microalgal biomass as a raw material for the generation of bioproducts. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 285:131436. [PMID: 34256200 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Microalgal biomass and its fine chemical production from microalgae have pioneered algal bioprocess technology with few limitations such as lab-to-industry. However, laboratory-scale transitions and industrial applications are hindered by a plethora of limitations comprising expensive in culturing methods. Therefore, to emphasize the profitable benefits, the algal culturing techniques appropriately employed for large-scale microalgal biomass yield necessitates intricate assessment to emphasize the profitable benefits. The present review holistically compiles the culturing strategies for improving microalgal biomass production based on appropriate factors like designing better bioreactor designs. On the other hand, synthetic biology approaches for abridging the effective industrial transition success explored recently. Prospects in synthetic biology for enhanced microalgal biomass production based on cultivation strategies and various mechanistic modes approach to enrich cost-effective and viable output are discussed. The State-of-the-art culturing techniques encompassing enhancement of photosynthetic activity, designing bioreactor design, and potential augmenting protocols for biomass yield employing indoor cultivation in both (Open and or/closed) methods are enumerated. Further, limitations hindering the microalgal bioproducts development are critically evaluated for improving culturing techniques for microalgal cell factories, subsequently escalating the cost-benefit ratio in bioproducts synthesis from microalgae. The comprehensive analysis could provide a rational and deeper detailed insight for microalgal entrepreneurs through alternative culturing technology viz., synthetic biology and genome engineering in an Industrial perspective arena.
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- Maruthanayagam Veerabadhran
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- School of Life Sciences, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, 110 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan 410078, China.
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- Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Typical Environmental Pollution and Health Hazards, School of Public Health, Hengyang Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, China.
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Vega-Ramon F, Zhu X, Savage TR, Petsagkourakis P, Jing K, Zhang D. Kinetic and hybrid modeling for yeast astaxanthin production under uncertainty. Biotechnol Bioeng 2021; 118:4854-4866. [PMID: 34612511 DOI: 10.1002/bit.27950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Astaxanthin is a high-value compound commercially synthesized through Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous fermentation. Using mixed sugars decomposed from biowastes for yeast fermentation provides a promising option to improve process sustainability. However, little effort has been made to investigate the effects of multiple sugars on X. dendrorhous biomass growth and astaxanthin production. Furthermore, the construction of a high-fidelity model is challenging due to the system's variability, also known as batch-to-batch variation. Two innovations are proposed in this study to address these challenges. First, a kinetic model was developed to compare process kinetics between the single sugar (glucose) based and the mixed sugar (glucose and sucrose) based fermentation methods. Then, the kinetic model parameters were modeled themselves as Gaussian processes, a probabilistic machine learning technique, to improve the accuracy and robustness of model predictions. We conclude that although the presence of sucrose does not affect the biomass growth kinetics, it introduces a competitive inhibitory mechanism that enhances astaxanthin accumulation by inducing adverse environmental conditions such as osmotic gradients. Moreover, the hybrid model was able to greatly reduce model simulation error and was particularly robust to uncertainty propagation. This study suggests the advantage of mixed sugar-based fermentation and provides a novel approach for bioprocess dynamic modeling.
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- Fernando Vega-Ramon
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Khaleghi MK, Savizi ISP, Lewis NE, Shojaosadati SA. Synergisms of machine learning and constraint-based modeling of metabolism for analysis and optimization of fermentation parameters. Biotechnol J 2021; 16:e2100212. [PMID: 34390201 DOI: 10.1002/biot.202100212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Revised: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Recent noteworthy advances in the development of high-performing microbial and mammalian strains have enabled the sustainable production of bio-economically valuable substances such as bio-compounds, biofuels, and biopharmaceuticals. However, to obtain an industrially viable mass-production scheme, much time and effort are required. The robust and rational design of fermentation processes requires analysis and optimization of different extracellular conditions and medium components, which have a massive effect on growth and productivity. In this regard, knowledge- and data-driven modeling methods have received much attention. Constraint-based modeling (CBM) is a knowledge-driven mathematical approach that has been widely used in fermentation analysis and optimization due to its capabilities of predicting the cellular phenotype from genotype through high-throughput means. On the other hand, machine learning (ML) is a data-driven statistical method that identifies the data patterns within sophisticated biological systems and processes, where there is inadequate knowledge to represent underlying mechanisms. Furthermore, ML models are becoming a viable complement to constraint-based models in a reciprocal manner when one is used as a pre-step of another. As a result, more predictable model is produced. This review highlights the applications of CBM and ML independently and the combination of these two approaches for analyzing and optimizing fermentation parameters. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Mohammad Karim Khaleghi
- Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, USA
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- Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Turon V, Ollivier S, Cwicklinski G, Willison JC, Anxionnaz-Minvielle Z. H 2 production by photofermentation in an innovative plate-type photobioreactor with meandering channels. Biotechnol Bioeng 2021; 118:1342-1354. [PMID: 33325030 DOI: 10.1002/bit.27656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Hydrogen production by Rhodobacter capsulatus is an anaerobic, photobiological process requiring specific mixing conditions. In this study, an innovative design of a photobioreactor is proposed. The design is based on a plate-type photobioreactor with an interconnected meandering channel to allow culture mixing and H2 degassing. The culture flow was characterized as a quasi-plug-flow with radial mixing caused by a turbulent-like regime achieved at a low Reynolds number. The dissipated volumetric power was decreased 10-fold while maintaining PBR performances (production and yields) when compared with a magnetically stirred tank reactor. To increase hydrogen production flow rate, several bacterial concentrations were tested by increasing the glutamate concentration using fed-batch cultures. The maximum hydrogen production flow rate (157.7 ± 9.3 ml H2 /L/h) achieved is one of the highest values so far reported for H2 production by R. capsulatus. These first results are encouraging for future scale-up of the plate-type reactor.
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- Violette Turon
- Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LITEN, DTBH, Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LITEN, DTBH, Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LITEN, DTBH, Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, CBM, DIESE, IRIG, DRF, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, LITEN, DTBH, Laboratoire Echangeurs et Réacteurs, Grenoble, France
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Helmy M, Smith D, Selvarajoo K. Systems biology approaches integrated with artificial intelligence for optimized metabolic engineering. Metab Eng Commun 2020; 11:e00149. [PMID: 33072513 PMCID: PMC7546651 DOI: 10.1016/j.mec.2020.e00149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Metabolic engineering aims to maximize the production of bio-economically important substances (compounds, enzymes, or other proteins) through the optimization of the genetics, cellular processes and growth conditions of microorganisms. This requires detailed understanding of underlying metabolic pathways involved in the production of the targeted substances, and how the cellular processes or growth conditions are regulated by the engineering. To achieve this goal, a large system of experimental techniques, compound libraries, computational methods and data resources, including multi-omics data, are used. The recent advent of multi-omics systems biology approaches significantly impacted the field by opening new avenues to perform dynamic and large-scale analyses that deepen our knowledge on the manipulations. However, with the enormous transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics available, it is a daunting task to integrate the data for a more holistic understanding. Novel data mining and analytics approaches, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), can provide breakthroughs where traditional low-throughput experiment-alone methods cannot easily achieve. Here, we review the latest attempts of combining systems biology and AI in metabolic engineering research, and highlight how this alliance can help overcome the current challenges facing industrial biotechnology, especially for food-related substances and compounds using microorganisms.
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- Mohamed Helmy
- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A∗STAR), Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A∗STAR), Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A∗STAR), Singapore, Singapore
- Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore
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Ali H, Solsvik J, Wagner JL, Zhang D, Hellgardt K, Park CW. CFD and kinetic‐based modeling to optimize the sparger design of a large‐scale photobioreactor for scaling up of biofuel production. Biotechnol Bioeng 2019; 116:2200-2211. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.27010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2018] [Revised: 04/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Haider Ali
- School of Mechanical EngineeringKyungpook National UniversityDaegu Korea
- Department of Chemical EngineeringImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondon UK
- Department of Chemical EngineeringNTNU‐Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheim Norway
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringNTNU‐Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyTrondheim Norway
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondon UK
- Department of Chemical EngineeringLoughborough University, Loughborough Leicestershire UK
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondon UK
- Centre for Process IntegrationUniversity of ManchesterManchester UK
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- Department of Chemical EngineeringImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondon UK
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- School of Mechanical EngineeringKyungpook National UniversityDaegu Korea
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Simultaneous treatment of domestic wastewater and bio-lipid synthesis using immobilized and suspended cultures of microalgae and activated sludge. J IND ENG CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2018.09.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Liebal UW, Blank LM, Ebert BE. CO 2 to succinic acid - Estimating the potential of biocatalytic routes. Metab Eng Commun 2018; 7:e00075. [PMID: 30197864 PMCID: PMC6127376 DOI: 10.1016/j.mec.2018.e00075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Revised: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 06/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Microbial carbon dioxide assimilation and conversion to chemical platform molecules has the potential to be developed as economic, sustainable processes. The carbon dioxide assimilation can proceed by a variety of natural pathways and recently even synthetic CO2 fixation routes have been designed. Early assessment of the performance of the different carbon fixation alternatives within biotechnological processes is desirable to evaluate their potential. Here we applied stoichiometric metabolic modeling based on physiological and process data to evaluate different process variants for the conversion of C1 carbon compounds to the industrial relevant platform chemical succinic acid. We computationally analyzed the performance of cyanobacteria, acetogens, methylotrophs, and synthetic CO2 fixation pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in terms of production rates, product yields, and the optimization potential. This analysis provided insight into the economic feasibility and allowed to estimate the future industrial applicability by estimating overall production costs. With reported, or estimated data of engineered or wild type strains, none of the simulated microbial succinate production processes showed a performance allowing competitive production. The main limiting factors were identified as gas and photon transfer and metabolic activities whereas metabolic network structure was not restricting. In simulations with optimized parameters most process alternatives reached economically interesting values, hence, represent promising alternatives to sugar-based fermentations.
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- Institute of Applied Microbiology-iAMB, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology-ABBt, RWTH Aachen University, Worringer Weg 1, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
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Peng L, Ngo HH, Guo WS, Liu Y, Wang D, Song S, Wei W, Nghiem LD, Ni BJ. A novel mechanistic model for nitrogen removal in algal-bacterial photo sequencing batch reactors. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 267:502-509. [PMID: 30041144 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.07.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A comprehensive mathematical model was constructed to evaluate the complex substrate and microbial interaction in algal-bacterial photo sequencing batch reactors (PSBR). The kinetics of metabolite, growth and endogenous respiration of ammonia oxidizing bacteria, nitrite oxidizing bacteria and heterotrophic bacteria were coupled to those of microalgae and then embedded into widely-used activated sludge model series. The impact of light intensity was considered for microalgae growth, while the effect of inorganic carbon was considered for each microorganism. The integrated model framework was assessed using experimental data from algal-bacterial consortia performing sidestream nitritation/denitritation. The validity of the model was further evaluated based on dataset from PSBR performing mainstream nitrification. The developed model could satisfactorily capture the dynamics of microbial populations and substrates under different operational conditions (i.e. feeding, carbon dosing and illuminating mode, light intensity, influent ammonium concentration), which might serve as a powerful tool for optimizing the novel algal-bacterial nitrogen removal processes.
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- Lai Peng
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control, Hunan University, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.
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He L, Yang W, Guan C, Yan H, Fu P. Microalgal cultivation and hydrodynamic characterization using a novel tubular photobioreactor with helical blade rotors. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2017; 40:1743-1751. [PMID: 28852865 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-017-1829-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 08/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Industrial-scale microalgal cultivation for food, feedstocks and biofuel production is limited by several engineering factors, such as cultivation systems. As a closed microalgal growth system, tubular photobioreactors are the most preferred ones in the mass algae production. In this work, microalgal cultivation and hydrodynamic characterization using a novel tubular photobioreactor equipped with helical blade rotors (HBRs) were investigated, with the aid of computational fluid dynamics and cultivation experiments to evaluate the effect of HBRs on the performance of tubular photobioreactor and growth of the Chlorella sp. The results showed that the use of HBRs in tubular photobioreactors would result in swirl flow and increase of radial velocity and circumferential velocity; it also indicated that the HBRs would enable microalgal cells to move forward helically and to be shuttled alternatively between the light zone and the dark zone. This has led to the faster growth rate of Chlorella sp. and no attachment on the tube surface in the tubular photobioreactor during the whole cultivation cycle. In conclusion, the HBRs could improve the performance of tubular photobioreactors and thus impact positively on the cultivation of microalgae cells for biotechnological industry.
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- Lichen He
- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, North Third Ring Road 15, Chaoyang District, Mail Box 268, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, North Third Ring Road 15, Chaoyang District, Mail Box 268, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, North Third Ring Road 15, Chaoyang District, Mail Box 268, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, North Third Ring Road 15, Chaoyang District, Mail Box 268, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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Del Rio-Chanona EA, Fiorelli F, Zhang D, Ahmed NR, Jing K, Shah N. An efficient model construction strategy to simulate microalgal lutein photo-production dynamic process. Biotechnol Bioeng 2017; 114:2518-2527. [PMID: 28671262 DOI: 10.1002/bit.26373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Revised: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 06/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Lutein is a high-value bioproduct synthesized by microalga Desmodesmus sp. It has great potential for the food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. However, in order to enhance its productivity and to fulfil its ever-increasing global market demand, it is vital to construct accurate models capable of simulating the entire behavior of the complicated dynamics of the underlying biosystem. To this aim, in this study two highly robust artificial neural networks (ANNs) are designed for the first time. Contrary to conventional ANNs, these networks model the rate of change of the dynamic system, which makes them highly relevant in practice. Different strategies are incorporated into the current research to guarantee the accuracy of the constructed models, which include determining the optimal network structure through a hyper-parameter selection framework, generating significant amounts of artificial data sets by embedding random noise of appropriate size, and rescaling model inputs through standardization. Based on experimental verification, the high accuracy and great predictive power of the current models for long-term dynamic bioprocess simulation in both real-time and offline frameworks are thoroughly demonstrated. This research, therefore, paves the way to significantly facilitate the future investigation of lutein bioproduction process control and optimization. In addition, the model construction strategy developed in this research has great potential to be directly applied to other bioprocesses. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2017;114: 2518-2527. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Ehecatl A Del Rio-Chanona
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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Koller AP, Wolf L, Weuster-Botz D. Reaction engineering analysis of Scenedesmus ovalternus in a flat-plate gas-lift photobioreactor. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 225:165-174. [PMID: 27889475 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Revised: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/06/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Microalgal strains of the genus Scenedesmus are a promising resource for commercial biotechnological applications. The temperature-, pH- and light-dependent growth of Scenedesmus ovalternus has been investigated on a laboratory scale. Best batch process performance was obtained at 30°C, pH 8.0 and an incident photon flux density of 1300μmolphotonsm-2s-1 using a flat-plate gas-lift photobioreactor. Highest growth rate (0.11h-1) and space-time yield (1.7±0.1gCDWL-1d-1) were observed when applying these reaction conditions. Biomass concentrations of up to 7.5±0.1gCDWL-1 were achieved within six days (25.0±0.5gCDWm-2d-1). The light-dependent growth kinetics of S. ovalternus was identified using Schuster's light transfer model and Andrews' light inhibition model (KS=545μmolphotonsm-2s-1; KI=2744μmolphotonsm-2s-1; μmax=0.21h-1). The optimal mean integral photon flux density for growth of S. ovalternus was estimated to be 1223μmolphotonsm-2s-1.
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- Anja Pia Koller
- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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Koller AP, Löwe H, Schmid V, Mundt S, Weuster-Botz D. Model-supported phototrophic growth studies with Scenedesmus obtusiusculus
in a flat-plate photobioreactor. Biotechnol Bioeng 2016; 114:308-320. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.26072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2016] [Revised: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 08/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Anja Pia Koller
- Institute of Biochemical Engineering; Technical University of Munich; Boltzmannstr. 15 85748 Garching Germany
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- Systems Biotechnology; Technical University of Munich; Garching Germany
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering; Technical University of Munich; Boltzmannstr. 15 85748 Garching Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University; Greifswald Germany
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- Institute of Biochemical Engineering; Technical University of Munich; Boltzmannstr. 15 85748 Garching Germany
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Model-based real-time optimisation of a fed-batch cyanobacterial hydrogen production process using economic model predictive control strategy. Chem Eng Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2015.11.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Dynamic modeling and optimization of cyanobacterial C-phycocyanin production process by artificial neural network. ALGAL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2015.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Zhang D, Wan M, del Rio-Chanona EA, Huang J, Wang W, Li Y, Vassiliadis VS. Dynamic modelling of Haematococcus pluvialis photoinduction for astaxanthin production in both attached and suspended photobioreactors. ALGAL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2015.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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del Rio-Chanona EA, Zhang D, Xie Y, Manirafasha E, Jing K. Dynamic Simulation and Optimization for Arthrospira platensis Growth and C-Phycocyanin Production. Ind Eng Chem Res 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b03102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3RA, U.K
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- College
of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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- Department
of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department
of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- The
Key Lab for Synthetic Biotechnology of Xiamen City, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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