Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology

Potential of CO2 elimination and valued byproducts production by marine microalge isolated from Southern Taiwan

International Conference and Summit on Industrial & Pharmaceutical Microbiology

October 17-18, 2016 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hsin-Ta Hsueh

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Microb Biochem Technol

Abstract:

The increasing trend of atmospheric CO2 concentration is still significant in the world. Therefore, CO2 elimination by photosynthetic microorganisms, one of green technology in this issue, is worthy to be developed. In this regard, two microalgae species was isolated from seawater nearby power plant in Southern Taiwan and compared their potential on CO2 elimination and nitrogen affinity in advance. The higher one potential species on CO2 elimination was used as candidate to see the valued byproducts content under nitrogen deprivation. The results show the maximal growth rate is over 4 d-1 and the nitrogen affinity constant is only 0.03 mM. In addition, the carbohydrate content is over 70% and productivity is about 0.7 g/L/d. This information reveals the species isolated in this study can be used as one of applied microbiology for CO2 elimination and bioethanol precursor production.

Biography :

Hsin-Ta Hsueh has completed his PhD and Postdoctoral studies from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He is the Assistant Research Fellow of Sustainable Environment Research Laboratories, National Cheng Kung University. He has published more than 30 journal papers in the field of air pollution control by biological, chemical/physical technologies.

Email: adathen@mail.ncku.edu.tw