Rosalam Sarbatly and Emma Suali (2013) Membrane photobioreactor as a device to increase CO2 mitigation by microalgae. Advances in Biofuels. pp. 241-258. ISSN 978-146146249-1
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Abstract
The integration of a membrane contactor with a photobioreactor serves two major purposes for the mitigation of CO₂ by microalgae, i.e., to enhance the mass transfer and interfacial contact between two different phases and to increase the exchange process of CO₂-O₂ by microalgae in the photobioreactor. The membrane integrated with a photobioreactor for CO₂ mitigation by microalgae can be considered as a relatively new field, and only four or five related research efforts have been published in the literature, suggesting that a significant amount of work remains to be done in this field. In addition, all of the authors agreed that a membrane contactor is capable of achieving better mass transfer than the conventional approach of using a separation column in the gas-liquid separation process. One significant problem associated with using a membrane as a CO₂-O₂ gas exchanger is its susceptibility to pore fouling due to the micron-size cells of the microalgae. However, pore fouling can be prevented by using a hydrophobic membrane contactor and appropriate operating conditions, both of which are discussed in detail in this work.
| Item Type: | Chapter In Book |
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| Keyword: | Biomass, CO₂ sequestration, Membrane photobioreactor, Microalgae |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | MUNIRA BINTI MARASAN - |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2018 08:24 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2018 08:24 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20188 |
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