Microalgae culture optimization and industrial upscalinginfluence of light composition on growth, pigment content and photosynthetic response of four microalgal species with commercial interest
- Pereira Bouzas, Simón
- Ana Otero Director
Defence university: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Fecha de defensa: 28 February 2020
- Concepción Herrero Chair
- Francisco Gabriel Acién Fernández Secretary
- Ami Ben Amotz Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
In this work the author has studied the influence of light composition on growth, pigment content and photosynthetic response in four microalgae species with commercial interest: the Chlorophyta Haematococcus pluvialis, Dunaliella salina, and Dunaliella tertiolecta, and the Rhodophyta Porphyridium cruentum. The results show how light composition is a parameter that may largely influence the production of compounds with industrial interest. Therefore, the use of a specific light spectrum is confirmed as an important tool for the optimization of artificial-light microalgae cultivation. Moreover, the work has been carried out in an industrial environment and shows the upscaling of a two-stage H. pluvialis cultivation as a proof of concept of the aforementioned, at a pilot-scale.