Algae Photobioreactor

Don’t be fooled by the price…(It's FREE !) The manuscript you about to download is valuable.

  Making Algae Photobioreactors at Home

 Test 10 different strains at once.

Test 10 different variables at once

Build it at Home

Patent Pending Designs

Full color illustrations and drawings

Parts list

  Why FREE? What's The Catch?

This is a first generation design. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles. In fact, it has none. It isn't "pretty." It's not sexy. But it does work. I'm using the same design right now, for my own experiments.

 I'm talking about an in-home TEST algae photobioreactor that can...

• Grow 10 different algae cultures at the same time. 
• Measure and adjust, 10 different variables, at the same time. 
• Measure and adjust 10 different levels of air/CO2 at the same time. 

One of the big drawbacks of testing algae is you make one change, stop, wait for sometimes days, to see if it has the desired reaction. More times than not, it doesn’t, and it is back to the drawing board. It is slow, tedious, pain-staking, work. This PBR is designed to solve that problem. 

When I went looking for a algae photobioreactor for my own studies, I saw similar PBR’s selling for $10,000 -$20,000 USD or more.

So I built one. This is a full scale, working, patent-pending lab unit. The designs that came after, and in the (upcoming) eBook, are much better, and more refined.

  The PBR presented here meets various criteria. Among other things …

·          I t is scalable and can be built in different sizes 

·          It is  made easily, from materials at hand. 

·           It is made using basic hand tools. 

·         It is  inexpensive to reproduce. 

·          It's functional, it works, and perform the job it is built for. 

In short, they are the real deal.

This design presented in this “Sneak Preview” is a 10 cell “batch” Algae Photo bioreactor. This was developed to test different strains of algae and/or 10 different variables, at the same time.  

   The best part is, you can build it yourself cheaply and inexpensively

Advantages:

·           Easily built using readily available parts. 

·           Easily test 10 different algal strains to determine which one is best    for your situation. 

·           Easily test 10 different nutrients and/or variables at once, to see which one works best. 

·           Easy to take apart and clean. 

·           Can be built with normal household tools. 

·           Can be built in 2-3 days. 

·           Easy to maintain and repair 

Disadvantages:   

·           Harvesting is “clunky” and not fully developed. 

·           Many of the systems could be automated. 

·           In order to keep the cost down, compromises were made in quality materials, after all, this is a prototype. 

This is one small part, of a much larger work called  “Making Algae Photo Bioreactors at Home.” currently in production. The complete manuscript will have many different sized PBR’s,

• small scale algae “incubators,” 
• to lab units, 
• to full sized, scalable, PBR’s 
• to “continuous” PBR’s for just about any algal application. 

It is, however, better than anything you can find anywhere on the internet. 

I hope you enjoy this “sneak preview”  Simply fill out the form below.

All the best 

David Sieg 

30 June, 2009 

Des Moines, Iowa, USA