Investigation on water adsorption on 3-crosslinked circular polyacrylamide membrane using ab initio, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo calculations for dewatering microalgae

• Main Authors: Villagracia, Al Rey C., David, Melanie Y., Arboleda, Nelson B., Jr., Ong, Hui Lin, Doong, R., Culaba, Alvin B., Chang, Jo Shu, Chen, Wei Hsin
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Microalgae—Dewatering; Adsorption; Biomass energy; Green technology; Energy consumption; Monte Carlo method; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3699; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4701/type/native/viewcontent/012144.html
• Institution: De La Salle University

Microalgae has been identified as a source of biomass and biofuel which can be cultivated easily in large amounts given a small land area requirement. However, minimizing microalgae's moisture content to 10% has been a bottleneck due to its energy intensive requirement and/or poor-quality outco...