TY - JOUR ID - 15100 TI - Improved lipid and biomass productivities in Chlorella vulgaris by differing the inoculation medium from the production medium JO - Biofuel Research Journal JA - BRJ LA - en SN - AU - Hamedi, Shahrbanoo AU - Mahdavi, Mahmood A. AU - Gheshlaghi, Reza AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Pardis Campus, 91779-48944, Mashhad, Iran. Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 3 IS - 2 SP - 410 EP - 416 KW - Microalgae KW - Biomass productivity KW - Lipid productivity KW - Production medium KW - Inoculation medium KW - Chlorella Vulgaris DO - 10.18331/BRJ2016.3.2.6 N2 - Improvement of biomass and lipid productivities is now one of the main concerns in commercialization of microalgae cultivation as a feedstock for algal biofuel production. Conventional photoautotrophic processes using well-studied and rich in oil strain of Chlorella vulgaris are not able to meet such demands. A new strategy of inoculating algae production medium with cells grown in a different medium from the production medium was proposed herein. More specifically, when SH4 was used as production medium and N8 was used as inoculation medium, biomass and lipid productivities increased by 2.33 folds and 1.44 fold, respectively, compared with when the production and inoculation media were the same, such as SH4. The findings of the present investigation showed that this cultivation scheme resulted in 52% increase in cell number and 54% increase in dry weight leading to improved productivities. Although by even considering this improvement, photoautotrophic cultivation of algae can hardly compete with the heterotrophic cultivation, the high cost of hydrocarbon supply required in large-scale heterotrophic processes marks the technique proposed in the present study as a promising approach for commercialization of algal biofuel production. UR - https://www.biofueljournal.com/article_15100.html L1 - https://www.biofueljournal.com/article_15100_da16e9262ad8e9f155667316a8adef23.pdf ER -