NDLI: From laboratory to commercial production: a case study of a Spirulina (Arthrospira) facility in Musina, South Africa

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Author	Grobbelaar, Johan U.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	A commercial scale Spirulina algal biotechnology production plant was built at Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Worldwide, the dietary supplement industry is extremely lucrative and, for this reason, Spirulina was chosen as the candidate organism. The transition from the laboratory to large-scale commercial production is not a simple step, with many unforeseen problems, mostly related to design, scale, contamination, and external unknown variables. Downstream processing, product production, handling, quality, and marketing are additional challenges, not experienced at the laboratory level. Furthermore, large outdoor production units offer interesting experimental and research opportunities. In the operation of the ponds, the importance of the optimal areal density where all the available solar energy is absorbed by the biomass was clearly shown, where high production rates imply harvesting only the biomass greater than the optimal areal density concentrations.
Starting Page	523
Ending Page	527
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09218971
Journal	Journal of Applied Phycology
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15735176
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-10-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Areal density Operating criteria Production Raceway ponds Spirulina Ecology Plant Physiology Freshwater & Marine Ecology Plant Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Aquatic Science

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