date:Mar 30, 2021
tivity while halving the production costs.
Oxygen balance
The trick, according to Abiusi, is growing the microalgae in a so-called mixotrophic photobioreactor: a reactor that provides its algae with light as well as an organic substrate such as sugar.
Microalgae, like all plants, use sunlight as an energy source to convert carbon dioxide into organic molecules and oxygen (the process of photosynthesis). In the dark, however, the opposite happens: plants use oxygen and organic molecules and rel