title: Biomass of algae growth on natural water medium.
abstract: Algae are the dominant primary producers in aquatic ecosystems. Since algae are highly varied group organisms, which have important functions in ecosystem, and their biomass is an essential biological resource. Currently, algae have been applied increasingly to diverse range of biomass applications. Therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the ecological algae features of microalgal production by natural medium, ecological function by lab scale of the symbiotic reactor which is imitated nature ecosystem, and atmospheric CO2 absorption that was related the algal growth of biomass to understand algae in natural water body better. Consequently, this study took advantages of using the unsupplemented freshwater natural medium to produce microalgae. Algal biomass by direct measurement of total suspended solids (TSS) and volatile suspended solids (VSS) resulted as 0.14g/L and 0.08g/L respectively. The biomass measurements of TSS and VSS are the sensible biomass index for algae production. The laboratory results obtained in the present study proved the production of algae by the natural water medium is potentially feasible.
authors.affiliation: School of Renewable Energy, Maejo University, Sansai, Chiang Mai 50290, Thailand. Electronic address: rrameshprabu@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rameshprabu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramaraj
authors.affiliation: Department of Soil and Water Conservation, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan.
authors.forename: David Dah-Wei
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: Department of Soil and Water Conservation, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Paris Honglay
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D018533:Biomass; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D002734:Chlorophyll / Q000032:analysis; D000077194:Chlorophyll A; D058086:Microalgae / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D002734:Chlorophyll; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; C037184:chlorophyll b; D000077194:Chlorophyll A