期刊名称：American Journal of Computational Mathematics
印刷版ISSN：2161-1203
电子版ISSN：2161-1211
出版年度：2016
卷号：06
期号：03
页码：237-244
DOI：10.4236/ajcm.2016.63024
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：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.
