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Quantitative Research of Photobioreactor Performance Based on an Improved Surface Fitting Method

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  • Qihang Jin

    (Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China)

  • Zhenzong He

    (Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China)

  • Huijie Ma

    (Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China)

Abstract

The relationship between performance and working conditions in photobioreactor hydrogen production systems illuminated by a variable intensity light source has been described quantitatively using relational expressions. First, based on the finite volume method and the Michaelis-Menten model, the hydrogen production process of a photobioreactor (PBR) system was simulated numerically. Then, the performance of the PBR system was evaluated considering the hydrogen production rate, dimensionless hydrogen production rate, hydrogen production thrust coefficient and conversion efficiency of light energy to hydrogen energy rate as performance parameters, and the relationship between these parameters and working conditions was studied. Finally, the improved quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (IQPSO) and surface fitting technique based on the curve fitting method were used to obtain relational expressions about the performance and working conditions of the PBR. All of the results show that the method can obtain accurately relational expressions for the performance optimization and forecasts of the PBR system.

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  • Qihang Jin & Zhenzong He & Huijie Ma, 2019. "Quantitative Research of Photobioreactor Performance Based on an Improved Surface Fitting Method," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-24, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:21:p:4089-:d:280587
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