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CO2 biofixation by Synechococcus elongatus from the power plant flue gas under various light–dark cycles

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Carbon dioxide emission, which acts as one of the major agents of greenhouse gases (GHG), has significant effects on global warming. Nowadays, there is a considerable global tendency toward decreasing the amount of GHG emissions to the atmosphere. In the present study, a simulated power plant flue gas (Be’sat, Power Plant, Tehran) with a constant injection rate of 21.41 cm3 s−1, including 10% CO2, 7% O2 and 83% N2 , was injected to the Synechococcus elongatus culture under two different light–dark (L/D) cycles: 24-0 and 16-8. Additionally, the biomass productivity and the CO2 biofixation rate by microorganisms were investigated. The highest biomass productivities were recorded as 0.68 and 0.52 g L−1 d−1 for 24-0 and 16-8 L/D cycles, respectively. Furthermore, the maximum rate of the CO2 biofixation was 1.26 g L−1 d−1 for the 24-0 L/D cycle and 0.98 g L−1 d−1 for the 16-8 L/D cycle during the cultivation.

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    Ali Hashemi, Farshid Pajoum Shariati, Elnaz Sohani, Soroush Azizi & Seyedeh Zahra Hosseinifar

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran

    Hossein Delavari Amrei

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Hashemi, A., Pajoum Shariati, F., Sohani, E. et al. CO2 biofixation by Synechococcus elongatus from the power plant flue gas under various light–dark cycles. Clean Techn Environ Policy 22, 1735–1743 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-020-01912-0

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