Anti-adhesion culture medium
AssigneeFermentalg
InventorPhilippe Boudier
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for culturing microorganisms, in particular protists, carried out in such a way as to prevent the microorganisms from adhering to the walls of the reactors in which the culture is performed.
Claims7
A process for culturing microorganisms in a culture medium suitable for their growth, wherein the culture medium comprises between 50 mg/L and 450 mg/L of a flocculating agent during a culture phase to prevent adhesion of the microorganisms to the walls of the reactors in which the culture is carried out, the microorganisms being microalgae of the genus Chlorella, and the flocculating agent being selected from iron chloride and zinc chloride;
- and wherein the culture is a long-term culture of at least 50 hours.
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