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Algae Photobioreactor

Step-by-illustrated-step on how to build an algae photobioreactor.

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An algae photobioreactor is an apparatus that houses and cultivates algae. It provides a suitable environment for algae growth, supplying light, nutrients, air, and heat to the culture.

An algae photobioreactor tends to be more expensive than an open system but it has several major advantages. For instance, they can prevent or minimise contamination, permitting axenic algal cultivation of cultivating monocultures (culture consisting of only one species of microalgae), they offer better control over cultural conditions(pH, light, carbon dioxide, temperature). Further to this a closed system prevents water evaporation, lower carbon dioxide losses due to out gassing, and permits higher cell concentrations.

The algae are then harvested, and can be used as biofuel, food supplements, cosmetics, animal feed, or fertiliser.
Spirulina is just one component of this amazing resource and is believed to have been a food source for the Aztecs and other Mesoamericans until the 16th Century. The harvesting of this form of algae from Lake Texcoco and subsequent sale as cakes is described by Cortés' soldiers. In recent times the United Nations World Food Conferenc lauds Spirulina as the 'best food for the future'. Spirulina has been proposed by both NASA and the European Space Agency as one of the primary foods to be cultivated during long-term space missions.

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