TY - JOUR
T1 - Coagulation-membrane filtration of Chlorella vulgaris
AU - Lee, Duu Jong
AU - Liao, Guan Yu
AU - Chang, Yin Ru
AU - Chang, Jo Shu
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial supports from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economical Affairs and Taiwan’s National Science Council.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Filtration-based separation of Chlorella vulgaris, a species with excellent potential for CO 2 capture and lipid production, was investigated using a surface-modified hydrophilic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane. Coagulation using polyaluminum chloride (PACl) attained maximum turbidity removal at 200mgL -1 as Al 2O 3. The membrane filtration flux at 1bar increased as the PACl dose increased, regardless of overdosing in the coagulation stage. The filtered cake at the end of filtration tests peaked in solid content at 10mgL -1 as Al 2O 3, reaching 34% w/w, roughly two times that of the original suspension. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) tests demonstrate that the cake with minimum water-solid binding strength produced the driest filter cake. Coagulation using 10mgL -1 PACl as Al 2O 3, followed by PTFE membrane filtration at 1bar, is an effective process for harvesting C. vulgaris from algal froth.
AB - Filtration-based separation of Chlorella vulgaris, a species with excellent potential for CO 2 capture and lipid production, was investigated using a surface-modified hydrophilic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane. Coagulation using polyaluminum chloride (PACl) attained maximum turbidity removal at 200mgL -1 as Al 2O 3. The membrane filtration flux at 1bar increased as the PACl dose increased, regardless of overdosing in the coagulation stage. The filtered cake at the end of filtration tests peaked in solid content at 10mgL -1 as Al 2O 3, reaching 34% w/w, roughly two times that of the original suspension. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) tests demonstrate that the cake with minimum water-solid binding strength produced the driest filter cake. Coagulation using 10mgL -1 PACl as Al 2O 3, followed by PTFE membrane filtration at 1bar, is an effective process for harvesting C. vulgaris from algal froth.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.12.098
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.12.098
M3 - Article
C2 - 22261659
AN - SCOPUS:84857234586
SN - 0960-8524
VL - 108
SP - 184
EP - 189
JO - Bioresource technology
JF - Bioresource technology
ER -
