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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

Photobioreactor design utilizing procedural three-dimensional modelling and ray tracing.

Kimmo A Riihiaho, Leevi Lind, Marco L Calderini, Vilho Halonen, Ilkka Pölönen, Pauliina Salmi

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Performance Evaluation ofBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kimmo A RiihiahoFaculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-2288-4121
Leevi LindFaculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-7713-9444
Marco L CalderiniFaculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-2532-3167
Vilho HalonenFaculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-2831-391X
Ilkka PölönenFaculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-5129-7364
Pauliina SalmiFaculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-3247-2259

Funding

Jenny ja Antti Wihurin RahastoResearch Council of Finland
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The design of photobioreactors for microalgae cultivation aims to achieve an architecture that allows the most efficient photosynthetic growth. The availability of light at wavelengths that are important for photosynthesis is therefore particularly crucial for reactor design. While testing different reactor types in practice is expensive, simulations could effectively limit the range of material and reactor design options. In this study, procedural three-dimensional modelling together with ray tracing was used to create virtual models of a conventional glass photobioreactor lit from the outside and a steel photobioreactor with embedded light sources. The measured transmittance and reflectance of

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Chlorella vulgarisMicroalgaeModels, BiologicalPhotobioreactorsComputer SimulationEquipment DesignLightPhotosynthesishyperspectral imaginglight propagationmicroalgaephotobioreactorsimulationthree-dimensional modelling

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PMID39876793
PMCPMC11775661

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