Study on the Correlation of N, P Nutrients

and Chlorella Growth

 September 2014

 Applied Mechanics and Materials 641-642:1183-1186

DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.641-642.1183
Authors:

Wu, Jun & Jia, Rui & Li, Bing & Liu, Chen. (2014). Study on the Correlation of N, P
Nutrients and Chlorella Growth. Applied Mechanics and Materials. 641-642. 1183-
1186. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.641-642.1183.

In this paper, the Chlorella vulgaris in Yellow River Diversion reservoir was selected
as experimental subjects to cultivate in laboratory. The the relationship between
algae biomass and N,P was studied from the following aspects：the type of nitrogen
source, the concentration of N and P, and the ratio of N and P. It was found that
KNO3was one of the best nitrogen source for growth of Chlorella vulgaris. Chlorella
vulgaris can live at the lower N concentration, while it was very difficult to survive in
the absence of P. So P is the limiting factor for its growth. In addition, the optimum
ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus was 16:1, for Chlorella vulgaris’s growth. It was
similar to the algae outbreak in the water eutrophication, glycine as the Chlorella
nutrition, the algae grew slow at early and later rapid.