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One simple but efficient carbon-supplying device was designed and developed, and the correlative carbon-supplying technology was described. The absorbing characterization of this device was studied. The carbon-supplying system proved to be economical for large-scale cultivation of Spirulina sp. in an outdoor raceway pond, and the gaseous carbon dioxide absorptivity was enhanced above 78%, which could reduce the production cost greatly.
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The author wish to thank the support of National Key Task Project of China (2006BAD09A12).
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Su, Z., Kang, R., Shi, S. et al. An economical device for carbon supplement in large-scale micro-algae production. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 31, 641–645 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-008-0214-8
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