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Fig. 1

From: Rheological properties of concentrated slurries of harvested, incubated and ruptured Nannochloropsis sp. cells

Fig. 1

Flow diagram of the CIDES method to process microalgae cultures to extract lipids, showing the Concentration, Incubation, Disruption, Extraction and Separation steps. The shear viscosity and viscoelastic behaviour of slurries of harvested, incubated and HPH ruptured Nannochloropsis sp. cells at 12, 20 and 24% solids concentrations were measured. The same initial slurry was sampled as it went through the different processing steps in the experiments. An image of hexane centrifugally separated from a hexane-in-microalgae emulsion is shown for reference

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