Abstract:
:Chlorella vulgaris was grown in two bench-scale photobioreactors with and without the application of a low intensity, low frequency electromagnetic field (EM-ELF) of about 3mT. Cell concentration and tendency of cells to form aggregates inside the reactor were recorded over a 30 days-time period at 0.5L-constant medium volume in the temperature range 289-304K. At 304K, after a cultivation period of 15 days, the rate of cell death became predominant over that of growth. In the temperature range 289-299K, a two step-kinetic model based on the mitotic division and the clusterization processes was developed and critically discussed. The best-fitted curves turned out to have a sigmoid shape, and the competition between mitosis and clusterization was investigated. Without EM-ELF, the temperature dependence of the specific rate constant of the mitotic step yielded an apparent total enthalpy of 15±6kJmol(-1), whose value was not influenced by the EM-ELF application. The electromagnetic field was shown to exert a significant effect on the exothermic clusterization step. The heat exchange due to binding between cells and liquid medium turned out to be -44±5kJmol(-1) in the absence of EM-ELF and -68±8kJmol(-1) when it was active. Optical microscopy observations were in agreement with the model predictions and confirmed that EM-ELF was able to enhance cell clusterization.
journal_name
J Biotechnoljournal_title
Journal of biotechnologyauthors
Beruto DT,Lagazzo A,Frumento D,Converti Adoi
10.1016/j.jbiotec.2013.10.035subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-01-01 00:00:00pages
9-14eissn
0168-1656issn
1873-4863pii
S0168-1656(13)00481-1journal_volume
169pub_type
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