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An incubator with up to 16 parallel bubble columns was equipped with artificial light sources assuring a light supply with a homogenous light spectrum directly above the bioreactors. Cylindrical light reflecting tubes were positioned around every single bubble column to avoid light scattering effects and to redirect the light from the top onto the cylindrical outer glass surface of each bubble column. The light reflecting tubes were equipped with light intensity filters to control the total light intensity for every single photo-bioreactor. Parallel cultivations of the unicellular obligate phototrophic cyanobacterium, Synechococcus PCC7942, were studied under different constant light intensities ranging from 20 to 102 μE m−2s−1 at a constant humidified air flow rate supplemented with CO2.
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Havel, J., Franco-Lara, E. & Weuster-Botz, D. A parallel bubble column system for the cultivation of phototrophic microorganisms. Biotechnol Lett 30, 1197–1200 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-008-9680-y
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