(103e) Optimizing Carbon Dioxide Utilization by Photosynthetic Bacteria
AIChE Annual Meeting
2005
2005 Annual Meeting
Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division
Advances in Environmental Biotechnology II: Waste Remediation
Monday, October 31, 2005 - 5:05pm to 5:25pm
Carbon dioxide scrubbing using photosynthetic bacterial cultures requires optimization of the bioreactor conditions to promote inorganic carbon fixation over chemotropic modes of growth. To accomplish this, we redesigned the growth media and characterized the growth of cultures in this media. The growth is compared with standard media and the possibilities for utilizing this approach at larger scale are evaluated.