Solar energy conversion efficiencies in photosynthesis: Minimizing the chlorophyll antennae to maximize efficiency
By A. Melis. 2009
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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Improving photosynthetic efficiency for greater yield. (2010, background): “εc in crop canopies (80), but even in a crop monoculture there are counteracting issues.”
- Genetic Engineering of Algae for Enhanced Biofuel Production (2010, background): “Most of these come from the manipulation of E. coli, in which the overexpression and deletion of entire metabolic pathways are feasible.”
- Mixotrophic cultivation of a Chlorella sorokiniana strain for enhanced biomass and lipid production (2014, background): “Microalgae-based biofuel production has advantages over land-based crops in productivity due to algae’s greater solar energy-conversion efficiency [1].”
- The promising future of microalgae: current status, challenges, and optimization of a sustainable and renewable industry for biofuels, feed, and other products (2018, background): “Microalgae are rapidly growing photosynthetic organisms having potential of transforming 9–10% of solar energy (average sunlight irradiance) into biomass with a theoretical yield of about 77 g/biomass/m2/day which is about 280 ton/ha/year [13, 14].”
- Impact of light color on photobioreactor productivity (2016, background): “Considering efficient light utilization is a bottleneck of biological nature, modifications to the light harvesting complex of microalgae would possibly be more effective [10].”
- Wastewater treatment high rate algal ponds for biofuel production. (2011, background): “Many theoretical approaches to determine the maximum photosynthetic solar energy conversion efficiency have been described in the literature (for example, Weissman and Goebel, 1987; Tillett, 1988; Walker, 2002, 2009; Melis, 2009), and these are summarized in Table 2.”
- A techno-economic analysis of industrial production of marine microalgae as a source of EPA and DHA-rich raw material for aquafeed: Research challenges and possibilities (2015, background): “The biological optimization of PE can be approached both by exploiting the natural diversity in PE among naturally occurring microalgae, or by manipulating the light harvesting system to optimize the photoactivity (Gordon and Polle, 2007; Melis, 2009; Mitra and Melis, 2010; Polle et al., 2002; Steph”