Lipid accumulation and growth characteristics of Chlorella zofingiensis under different nitrate and phosphate concentrations

• FENG Pingzhong

  State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• DENG Zhongyang

  School of Biological Engineering, Hubei University of Technology

• FAN Lu

  School of Biological Engineering, Hubei University of Technology

• HU Zhengyu

  State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

抄録

To evaluate the potential of the green agla Chiorella zofingiensis as a feedstock for biodiesel production, the effects of nitrogen and phosphate on lipid accumulation and growth of C. zofingiensis were studied. The maximum specific growth rate (μ_<max>) reached 2.15 day^<-1> when the concentration of NaNO_3 and K_2HPO_4・3H_2O was 1.0 g L^<-1> and 0.01 g L^<-1>, respectively. The lipid contents of C. zofingiensis grown in media deficient of nitrogen (65.1%) or phosphate (44.7%) were both higher than that obtained from cells grown in full medium (33.5%). The highest lipid productivity (87.1 mg L^<-1> day^<-1>) was also obtained from cells grown in nitrogen deficient media, indicating nitrogen deficiency was more effective than phosphate deficiency for inducing lipid accumulation in C. zofingiensis. In addition, the feasibility of cultivating the alga in 60 L fiat plate photobioreactors and 10 L bottles outdoors for biodiesel was also tested. It was found that C. zofingiensis could adapt to fluctuating temperatures and irradiance of outdoors and the highest μ_<max> and lipid productivity could reach 0.362 day^<-1> and 26.6 mg L^<-1> day^<-1> outdoors, respectively. The lipid production potential of C zofingiensis is projected to be 31.1 kg ha^<-1> day^<-1> in outdoor culture. These results suggested that C. zofingiensis is a promising organism for feedstock production of biofuel and can be used in scaled up culture outdoors.

収録刊行物

• Journal of bioscience and bioengineering

  Journal of bioscience and bioengineering 114 (4), 405-410, 2012-10-25

  公益社団法人日本生物工学会

キーワード

• Biodiesel
• Chlorella zofingiensis
• Lipid accumulation
• Microalgae cultivation
• Outdoor culture
• Photoautrophic cultivation

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• CRID: 1573668927632586880
• NII論文ID: 110009543725
• NII書誌ID: AA11307678
• ISSN: 13891723
• 本文言語コード: en
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