Last Sunday, we introduced the first mixture into our polycarbonate tubing on the inclined face of the platform. As our group is lacking an initial source of algae, we decided to use a mixture of water from Strawberry Creek and tap water to attempt to grow algae. We have added nutrients and soil as well to this mixture, as well as bubbled up air from the bottom of the tubes from an air pump in order to keep circulation up inside of the tubes. We measured the pH around 7.5 for both of the mixtures.
The next step in the project is to obtain the solar panels, battery, and inverter in order to make this system sustainable and self-powering by the time we have to move the reactor outside in mid-May.
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SUSTAINABLE ALGAE PHOTOBIOREACTORThe Sustainable Algae Photobioreactor Project is one of the various projects developed through the UC Berkeley division of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW). A special thanks to The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) here at UC Berkeley for providing the grant to make this project possible.
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