MIT algae photobioreactor

Posted by Stella Kin

MIT algae photobioreactor

Link to youtube video of their triangular reactor.

One of the latest developments is the triangular reactor (Fig. 5). It combines the principle of a bubble column with mixing by in-built static mixers in an external ‘downcomer’. According to press releases from MIT and an external evaluation [139] this “3DMS-Reactor” exhibits an average productivity of 98 g dry weight m−2 day−1 over a period of 19 days even when under sub-optimal lighting conditions. Thus, this is one of the most productive algal cultivation systems ever built, and verges on the theoretical maximum average yield of 100 g m−2 d−1

Reference
Second Generation Biofuels: High-Efficiency Microalgae for Biodiesel Production