algaculture
Sign in to savethumb|A seaweed farm in Uroa, Zanzibar thumb|Algaculture in Ketura, Israel|Kibbutz Ketura, [[Israel]] Algaculture is a form of aquaculture involving the farming of species of algae.
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- Uses of algae
- Food
- Lab manipulation
- Agar
- Fertilizer
- Pollution control
- Energy production
- Microgeneration
- Carbon sequestration
- Other uses
- Growing, harvesting, and processing algae
- Monoculture
- Growing algae
- Temperature
- Light and mixing
- Odor and oxygen
- Nutrients
- Methods
- Open system cultivation
- Water lagoons
- Open sea
- Raceway ponds
- HRAPs
- Photobioreactors
- Flat panel PBRs
- Tubular PBRs
- Biofilm PBRs
- Plastic bag PBRs
- {{anchor|autoflocculation}} Harvesting
- Oil extraction
- Physical extraction
- Chemical extraction
- Algal culture collections
- See also
- Sources
- References
- External links
thumb|A seaweed farm in Uroa, Zanzibar thumb|Algaculture in Ketura, Israel|Kibbutz Ketura, [[Israel]] Algaculture is a form of aquaculture involving the farming of species of algae.
The majority of algae that are intentionally cultivated fall into the category of microalgae (also referred to as phytoplankton, microphytes, or planktonic algae). Macroalgae, commonly known as seaweed, also have many commercial and industrial uses, but due to their size and the specific requirements of the environment in which they need to grow, they do not lend themselves as readily to cultivation (this may change, however, with the advent of newer seaweed cultivators, which are basically algae scrubbers using upflowing air bubbles in small containers, known as tumble culture).