Our work shows that significant savings can indeed be attained with thermotolerant algae and that the potential of selected Chlorella strains in flat reactors is very high when compared with the typical yields of traditional crops.
The highest photosynthetic efficiencies obtained were; 4.2 % for the vertical tubular photobioreactor, 3.8 % for the flat panel reactor, 1.8 % for the horizontal tubular reactor, and 1.5%% for the open raceway pond.
A mathematical model describing the performance of photocatalytic reactors was proposed, and fitted using data for 4-chlorophenol degradation collected with a flat plate reactor.
Experimental validation is made in a flat plate reactor that is part of a recycling system.
The photocatalytic reduction of CO2 was conducted in a flat closed reactor with the inner capacity of 358 mL containing 20 mL 0.1 mol/L KHCO3 solution.
The results indicate that two side illumination is the best design for light penetration into a flat plate reactor.
A methane air flat flame reactor was designed to study the initial stages of combustion through flash pyrolysis of biomass and factors contributing to particulate emissions were examined.
A 22 flat plate reactor operated with apparent Faradaic efficiency up to 100, at near complete reactants conversion, at gas flow rates up to 30 l/min.
