Evaluación de harina de semilla de moringa como aceite floculante en la separación de biomasa microalgal Chlorella Vulgaris de su medio de cultivo

The purpose of this research project was to evaluate moringa flour as a flocculating agent in the separation of Chlorella vulgaris microalgal biomass from its culture medium. For this, the Chlorella vulgaris microalga culture was carried out, guaranteeing all the conditions for its proper growth, such as: culture medium, photoperiod, agitation and pH. The necessary culture escalations were carried out to obtain approximately 6 L of microalgae. Subsequently, the flocculant moringa seed meal was evaluated by jar tests, taking samples of 200 mL of microalgal culture, to determine the concentration and the optimum pH of flocculation. For the determination of the concentration the values ​​of 0.2 were chosen; 0.6; 1.0 and 1.4 g / L of moringa seed meal, a cell count was performed to establish the cell concentration present in the microalgae sample before and after the flocculation and afterwards and the optical density, OD, was measured. to calculate the efficiency of the process. It was obtained as a result that the highest efficiency: 67.88%, was given at a concentration of 1.4 g / L of moringa seed flour.

• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad de América
• Repositorio: Lumieres
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.uamerica.edu.co:20.500.11839/6599
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11839/6599
• Palabra clave: Separación de biomasa; Densidad óptica; Concentración celular presente; Biomass separation; Optical density; Cell concentration present; Tesis y disertaciones académicas
• License: Atribución – No comercial