TITLE:
Calculation of the Average Irradiance and the Microalgae Growth for a Year at CUET, Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Ismot Ara Khanam, Ujjwal Kumar Deb
KEYWORDS:
Biofuel, Microlagae, Light Irradiance, Tubular Reactor, Simulation
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Computational Mathematics,
Vol.6 No.3,
September
6,
2016
ABSTRACT: The light
is one of the important factors for the microalgae growth in the biofuel
technology. As biofuel project is large and expensive thus before setting a
microalgae based biofuel project in any geographical location, it is important
to investigate the suitability of all important parameters involving with the
system. This paper aims to investigate the sunlight availability and the
microalgae growth for a photobioreactor at Chittagong University of Engineering
and Technology (CUET). A computational growth model related to the average
irradiance is proposed to calculate the growth of microalgae. We observed that
average irradiance is the highest in June and is the lowest in December. From
our simulation it is found that the growth of microalgae varies with the
average irradiance in a year.