Dataset on economic analysis of mass production of algae in LED-based photobioreactors

• Published in: Data in Brief
• Main Authors: Weiqi Fu, Steinn Gudmundsson, Kristine Wichuk, Sirus Palsson, Bernhard O. Palsson, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, Sigurður Brynjólfsson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics; R858-859.7; Science (General); Q1-390; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.12.010; https://doaj.org/article/682c21e13576447ebd338a8ce4974709

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled “Sugar-stimulated CO2 sequestration by the green microalga Chlorella vulgaris” (Fu et al., 2019) [1]. The data describe a rational design and scale-up of LED-based photobioreactors for producing value-added algal biomass while removing waste CO2 from flu gases from power plants. The dataset were created from growth rate experiments for biomass production including direct biomass productivity data, PBR size and setup parameters, medium composition as well as indirect energy cost and overhead in Iceland. A complete economic analysis is formed through a cost breakdown as well as PBR scalability predictions.