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The reactor is equipped with rotary spray balls and a spray pump to wash the tank internally between culture runs. Cleaning and sterilizing between culture runs in a 2 step process: biofilm removal and chlorine sterilization. Downtime and manual labour areis very minimal for cleaning our PBRs. Though the cleaning cycle takes 2-4 hours, you let the spray system work for you, like a dishwasher.

Method of cleaning the interior of our bioreactors where no disassembly is required.

A piece of equipment that spins things quickly to separate fluids from suspended particles that have different densities. Our PBR does not centrifuge the algae once it is harvested in its liquid form. We are happy to recommend a few centrifuge companies, if concentrated algae is what you are looking to produce.

A plastic of glass container used to transport your algae to inoculate the bioreactor. Typically capacity we recommend is 20L (5 US gal).

Animals having a soft body enclosed in a calcareous two-part shell, e.g., Clams, scallops, mussels, and oysters. The class Bivalvia is part of the larger group Mollusca.

Preventative measures to protect your algae culture or downstream organisms from biological risks, or pathogens. All water entering our bioreactors passes through several levels of filtration. Water is prefiltered to 0.5 µm, passed through a UV sterilizer, an absolute 0.2 µm filter, and finally through a 0.1 µm absolute capsule filter. This staged filtration ensures that water enters the bioreactor without contaminants. Air entering and leaving the reactor is also filtered to 0.2 µm.

A vessel that carries out a biological reaction. e also use the terms photobioreactor, PBR, or Algae Bioreactor for our equipment.

The weight of the organic matter present. General referring to the weight in g/L of algae in a given culture.

Waste treatment system. Traditional aquaculture designs aim to remove suspended solids, biofloc systems allow and encourage solids and the microbial communities to accumulate in the water. Biofloc can improve water use and feed conversion ratio. Biofloc systems are not suited for all aquacultured species.

When you harvest the entire PBR full of algae. Different than continuous and drop and top (semi-continuous) harvest.

Single species in the absence of cells or living organisms of another species.

Organisms that can produce their own food from the substances available in their surroundings using light (photoautotrophs) or chemical energy. Opposite of heterotrophic. Our algae PBRs are designed for photoautotropic organisms.