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This study evaluated productivity, CO2 biofixation, and lipid content in biomass of the acidophilic microalga Chlamydomonas acidophila LAFIC-004 cultivated with five different carbon dioxide concentrations. The influence of carbon dioxide concentration on nutrient removal and pH was also investigated. Treated wastewater (secondary effluent) was used as culture medium. Five experimental setups were tested: T-0% - injection of atmospheric air (0.038% CO2), T-5% (5% CO2), T-10% (10% CO2), T-15% (15% CO2) and T-20% (20% CO2). The T-5% and T-10% experiments showed the highest values of productivity and CO2 biofixation, and maximum biomass dry weight was 0.48 ± 0.02 and 0.51 ± 0.03â gâ L-1, respectively. This acidophilic microalga proved to be suitable for carbon biofixation and removal of nutrients from secondary effluent of wastewater treatment plants with high CO2 concentration. All assays were performed without pH control. This microalga species presented high lipid content. However, fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) are not suitable for biodiesel use.
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Microalgas , Águas Residuárias , Biomassa , Dióxido de Carbono , LipídeosRESUMO
O conhecimento da taxa ótima de alimentação para uma determinada espécie não só é importante para promover o maior crescimento e a melhor eficiência na alimentação, mas também para prevenir a deterioração de qualidade de água como resultado do excesso de alimento. O presente estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o desempenho do robalo-peva, Centropomus parallelus cultivado em tanques-rede flutuantes sob o efeito de diferentes taxas alimentares (1; 1,5; 2 e 2,5% da biomassa ao dia e a taxa controle que foi até a saciedade), em condições de cultivo no ambiente natural. Durante 40 dias, cada tratamento foi avaliado em triplicatas e foram verificados os parâmetros biológicos (sobrevivência, taxa de crescimento específico, peso e comprimentos médios finais) e nutricionais (taxa de conversão alimentar aparente). A análise de regressão polinomial da taxa de crescimento específico sugere que em temperaturas médias de 25°C a taxa alimentar que resulta em melhor crescimento para juvenis de robalo-peva é de 1,7% da biomassa viva por dia.
Knowing the optimal feeding rate for a given species is important not only to promote higher growth and greater feeding efficiency, but also to prevent the deterioration of water quality resulting from excess food. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of the fat-snook Centropomus parallelus cultivated in net cages under the effect of different feeding rates (1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5% live biomass daily and control rate up to apparent satiation) in natural environment conditions. For 40 days, each treatment was evaluated in triplicate, in which the biological parameters (survival, specific growth rate, final average weight and length) and nutritional parameters (feed conversion ratio) were assessed. A polynomial regression analysis of specific growth rate suggests that in average temperatures of 25°C, the feeding rate which results in best growth for juvenile fatsnook is 1.7% of live biomass per day.