{"id":1843,"date":"2016-05-27T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:18:38","slug":"algae-collection-by-air-floatation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/2016\/05\/27\/algae-collection-by-air-floatation\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW PUBLICATION &#8211; Algae collection by Air Floatation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our publication, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00449-016-1594-9\" target=\"_blank\">Additive-free harvesting of oleaginous phagotrophic microalga by oil and air flotation<\/a><\/em>, Dr. Hosseini, H.A. Starvaggi\u00a0and Dr. Ju demonstrate that\u00a0<em>Ochromonas danica <\/em>(an\u00a0oleaginous phagotrophic algae)\u00a0can be collected by simple air floatation and\/or partitioning with\u00a0oil droplets.<\/p>\n<p>In pre-testing, algae cultures contacted with an organic liquid\u00a0(hexadecane) showed that approximately 71% of the cells migrated to the hexadecane-water interface. This partitioning indicated the cells are more hydrophobic in nature and could be a good candidate for air floatation.\u00a0In further air floatation testing, the cell highest recoveries were found with lower pH (3-4), and medium to smaller air-stones (91%-97%). Effects of time, column dimensions, sample volume, and culture conditions are also discussed\u00a0in the full article.<\/p>\n<p>The article and\u00a0description of the L-9 Taguchi orthogonal-array experimental design can be found\u00a0online at\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00449-016-1594-9\" target=\"_blank\">Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our publication, Additive-free harvesting of oleaginous phagotrophic microalga by oil and air flotation, Dr. Hosseini, H.A. Starvaggi\u00a0and Dr. Ju demonstrate that\u00a0Ochromonas danica (an\u00a0oleaginous phagotrophic algae)\u00a0can be collected by simple air floatation and\/or partitioning with\u00a0oil droplets. In pre-testing, algae cultures contacted with an organic liquid\u00a0(hexadecane) showed that approximately 71% of \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/2016\/05\/27\/algae-collection-by-air-floatation\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2010,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50348,63],"tags":[50395,41842,50378],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","category-publications","tag-algae","tag-article","tag-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1126\/2016\/05\/OD-WebColorSmall.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/jugroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}