Advances in chemical engineering

"This volume provides the main physical and engineering concepts associated with photobioreaction engineering. It aims to apply chemical engineering approach to the design, modeling, and control of photobioreactors. Most of the problems encountered in photobioreactor engineering, such as mixing, medium composition, pH, and temperature control, are common to classical bioprocesses, but light energy supply is highly specific. This is also encountered in any photoreactive process. Chemical nutrients, including carbon dioxide, which could, however, lead to gas-liquid mass transfer challenges, and physical parameters(temperature, pH) can be assumed to be homogeneous in well-mixed conditions. However, irradiance is heterogeneously distributed in the culture due to absorption and scattering by cells, independently of the mixing conditions. This book focuses on autotrophic photobioreaction when light is the only energy source of photosynthesis, which gives microalgae cultivation a real specificity with respect to other classical chemical biological processes. The different chapters are related to different modeling and experimental approaches to tackle the different aspects of the photobioreactors."--Preface.

1. Photobioreactor modeling and radiative transfer analysis for engineering purposes / Jérémi Dauchet, Jean-François Cornet, Fabrice Gros, Matthieu Roudet and Claude-Gilles Dussap -- 2. Interaction between light and photosynthetic microorganisms / Laurent Pilon and Razmig Kandilian -- 3. Modeling of microalgae bioprocesses / Matthias Schirmer and Clemens Posten -- 4. Microalgal photosynthesis and growth in mass culture / Marcel Janssen -- 5. Industrial photobioreactors and scale-up concepts / Jeremy Pruvost, Francois Le Borgne, Arnaud Artu, Jean-François Cornet and Jack Legrand.