Lipid productivity in limnetic Chlorella is doubled by seawater added with anaerobically digested effluent from kitchen waste

Table 1 Final biomass concentration, cell density and cell mass, and biomass productivity of Chlorella sorokiniana SDEC-18 grown in BG11 and in seawater supplemented with different volume percentages (1, 3, 5, 8, and 15%) of anaerobically digested effluent from kitchen waste

Medium	Biomass concentration (g/L)	Cell density (× 10⁸/L)	Biomass productivity (mg/L day)	Cell mass (ng/cell)
BG11	0.313 ± 0.010^a*	15.75 ± 0.07^a	28.3 ± 0.07^a	0.20 ± 0.002^a
0%	0.017 ± 0.000^b	1.67 ± 0.28^b	0 ± 0.929^b	0.10 ± 0.03^a
1%	0.134 ± 0.001^c	2.75 ± 0.07^bc	10.3 ± 0.976^c	0.49 ± 0.02^bcd
3%	0.259 ± 0.019^d	6.83 ± 0.28^de	22.8 ± 1.254^d	0.38 ± 0.00^be
5%	0.284 ± 0.003^e	7.17 ± 0.42^e	25.3 ± 0.047^e	0.40 ± 0.02^bce
8%	0.228 ± 0.000^f	5.25 ± 1.06^df	19.7 ± 0.047^f	0.43 ± 0.06^bcde
15%	0.247 ± 0.008^d	7.0 ± 0.14^e	21.6 ± 0.418^d	0.35 ± 0.01^e

* Data in the same column followed by different letters are significantly different by Duncan’s test at p < 0.05

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