Microalgae can provide almost everything that fossil oil can; they can remove nutrients from wastewater, sequester carbon dioxide and produce valuable biomolecules such as lipids, proteins and pigments. In addition, living algal cells produce hydrogen gas, especially under conditions where their normal photosynthesis is disrupted.
In this project, together with our partners and collaborators, we focus on the efficient cultivation of hydrogen-producing algae and astaxanthin pigment producers in fish recirculation aquaculture effluents.
We will develop methods to monitor biomolecule production and algal growth using spectroscopic methods and robust, explainable artificial intelligence models.
Researchers Syeda Ahmed, Dr Marco Calderini and Salli Pääkkönen review an experiment of astaxanthin pigment production.
The purple light below encourages the algae to produce the pigment.
