Today, we began the construction of the photobioreactor on our steel platform in the Oxford Tract. Most of our team members showed up to drill holes in the platform in order to fix the polycarbonate tubing onto it. For now, we just have two tubes installed on the incline. The tubes have our rubber stoppers in them to hold the water/algae mix inside. Additionally, we have thin rubber tubing with check valves to feed air/carbon dioxide into the tubes. Over spring break, we aim to continue to build the reactor and set up a fully functioning prototype to circulate and grow the algae.
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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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