Energy Considerations in a Photobioreactor
As one might be knowing,one of the engineering challenges in the algae biofuels industry,is the making of high performance photobioreactors. The challenge for reactor optimization goes into two...
View ArticleSuspended Algae Garden in Paris
HORTUS.PARIS, an exhibition from ecoLogicStudio held in Paris introduced a new gardening prototype that was designed to stimulate the emergence of novel material practices. The prototype hosted a...
View ArticleAlgae Photobioreactors for Individual Homes
Grow Energy of San Diego, California, have developed algae panels that can be mounted onto a building’s roof or envelope.The system, called as Verde, employs a clean combustion process to burn algal...
View ArticleRooftop Algae Farming – A case study
Roof tops are excellent venues to grow algae because the high temperatures and constant sunlight helps it to grow. A recent study the Oilgae team revealed that a company – EnerGaia, based out of...
View ArticleSchott Glass, Heliae and ASU Join Hands to Commercialise Heliae’s Algae...
In Arizona, SCHOTT North America, Heliae, and Arizona State University announced a partnership to bring Heliae’s algae production technology to ASU’s algae testbed facility. Through the partnership,...
View ArticleNREL: Unique bioreactor Finds Algae’s Sweet Spot
A unique bioreactor at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory can help find the ideal locations for farms to produce algae that could someday compete with renewable diesel,...
View ArticleCawthron’s New Technology Photobioreactor- A Boon to Blue Biotech Sector
A highly sophisticated, multi-vessel photobioreactor (PBR) is developed by the scientists at Cawthron Institute, New Zealand to improve the production of algae products. The Cawthron scientists...
View ArticleNovel Internal Mixers to improve the Performance of PBRs
Scientists from China have developed a novel mixer to improve the performance of flat-plate photobioreactors. The effects of the mixer were theoretically evaluated using computational flow dynamics....
View ArticleWavelength-selective Plasmonics for Enhanced Cultivation of Microalgae
Scientists from Canada have conducted an experiment to increase the growth rate of microalgae in photobioreactors using plasmonic substrate. Modular photobioreactors were constructed with different...
View ArticleControl of CO2 Input Conditions During Outdoor Culture of Chlorella Vulgaris...
Scientists from Singapore conducted a study to optimize the CO2 usage during outdoor microalgae cultivation in order to increase the CO2 to biomass conversion efficiency. Different CO2 input...
View ArticleMixotrophic Production of Microalgae in Pilot-Scale Photobioreactors
Researchers from Canada have conducted an experiment to find the practicability of mixotrophic production of microalgae in pilot scale photobioreactors. The study was conducted with Scenedesmus...
View ArticleSCHOTT’s New Oval Glass Tubes to Increase Algal Output
SCHOTT, in partnership with Heliae, has announced that its new oval glass tubes for photobioreactors increases the dry biomass output by more than 22%. An indoor study was conducted by replacing round...
View ArticleAlgae.Tec Delivers PBR to Reliance’s Jamnagar Oil Refinery
Algae.Tec has shipped its first algae photobioreactor to Reliance’s Jamnagar Oil Refinery as part of its contract with Reliance Industries to build an 84-gallon-per-day pilot plant at the oil refinery....
View ArticleTaiwan Develops Method of Making Biofuel from Microalgae
Scientists from Taiwan have developed a unique system to cultivate algae for the production of biofuels. Microalgae were cultivated by coupling wastewater treatment process with algal photobioreactor...
View ArticleTemperature Based Mass Flow Rate Sensor for Algae Photobioreactors
Researchers from Brazil performed an experiment to improve the use of photobioreactors, for continuous growth, by developing minimally invasive mass flow rate sensor that can be used as an alternative...
View ArticleAn Integrated Photovoltaic-Photobioreactor System for Microalgal Cultivation
Researchers from Italy have conducted an experiment to improve the overall photoconversion efficiency of microalgae production in photobioreactors. Two strategies were followed in the experiment – in...
View ArticleAn Integrated Approach for Biodiesel and Bioethanol Production from...
Researchers from Malaysia conducted an experiment to produce biodiesel and bioethanol from Scenedesmus bijugatus cultivated in vertical tubular photobioreactor. The alga was cultivated in the...
View ArticleNew Algae Study Shows Importance of IBS Light Availability
Researchers from China and Europe have performed an experiment to analyze the effect of initial biomass specific (IBS) light availability on the production rate of batch microalgal triglycerides from...
View ArticleComparison of Flat Photo-Bioreactors for Micro-Algae Culture Based on CFD...
Scientists from China performed an experiment to compare flat photo-bioreactors for algae cultivation based on computational flow dynamics numerical simulation. Three flat photo-bioreactors were taken...
View ArticleCultivation of Chlorella Vulgaris in Column Photobioreactor for Biomass...
Scientists from China performed an experiment to study the algal biomass cultivation and lipid production of Chlorella vulgaris using various photobioreactors (bubbling, air-lift, porous air-lift)....
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