Industrial microbiology of solar salt production |
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Authors: | BJ Javor |
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Institution: | (1) CalBioMarine Technologies, Inc., 6351 Corte del Abeto, Suite A101, Carlsbad, CA 92009, USA, US |
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Abstract: | Solar salterns can be modeled as giant outdoor chemostats, much like a series of dams on a slow-moving river. Microorganisms
and their products play an essential, but sometimes uncharacterized, role in salt production in these ponds, from seawater
salinity up through NaCl saturation. They may physically affect the evaporation process and their by-products may chemically
modify or bind with dissolved ions. Many solar salt facilities engage microbiologists to establish monitoring programs for
analyses of nutrients, standing crop and associated biological variables in the ponds. Other solar salt companies engage microbiologists
only when there are “crises” in the ponds that interfere with salt production. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2002) 28, 42–47 DOI: 10.1038/sj/jim/7000173
Received 20 May 2001/ Accepted in revised form 13 June 2001 |
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Keywords: | : salt saltern halophile Aphanothece EPS |
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