METHOD OF CONTROL OF PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC MICROORGANISM CULTIVATION PROCESS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC C12Q3/00 C12M1/00 C12N1/12 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: initial nutrient medium together with an inoculated autotrophic microorganism is supplied from a technological container into an input section of a photobioreactor with forming a suspension film of a photoautotrophic microorganism flowing down by gravity on an internal surface of transparent cylindrical tubes. Simultaneously, mixed air and carbon dioxide are reverse-flow supplied inside the tubes with using sleeves with suspension film outflow. The photoautotrophic microorganism suspension flowing in the internal surface of the transparent cylindrical tubes gets into a light section wherein it is continuously illuminated with a fluorescent tube. From the transparent cylindrical tubes, the photoautotrophic microorganism suspension flows down in an output section of the photobioreactor wherein it is bubbled to saturate the cells with carbon dioxide additionally and illuminated with a horizontal toroidal lamp. An external surface of the transparent cylindrical tubes is sequentially cooled in cooling air in the light section and in cooling water in the cooling section with cooling air and cooling water flowing in the respective recirculation loops. The photoautotrophic microorganism suspension is added with a nutrient medium of main and correction flows supplied into a technological container at first and then into the suspension recirculation loop at the input of the input section of the photobioreactor. Waste mixed air and carbon dioxide are supplied from the photobioreactor into the mixer by means of a compressor through the mixed air and carbon dioxide recirculation loop and temporarily collected in a gas tank. Post-bubble foam is continuously discharged from a lower section of the photobioreactor into an anti-foaming separator and separated into a suspension supplied into the input section of the photobioreactor and mixed air and carbon dioxide combined with waste mixed air and carbon dioxide in a regulation loop, while being temporarily collected in the gas tank and supplied into the mixer with extra saturation of waste mixed air and carbon dioxide with a required amount of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide saturated mixed air and carbon dioxide are discharged from the mixed by two ducts one of which being a main flow is reverse-flow directed inside the transparent cylindrical tubes; the other one is supplied into the output portion of the photobioreactor when bubbling the suspension. From the output portion of the photobioreactor, the microorganism suspension is discharged from the suspension recirculation loop with intermediate vented out oxygen release accompanying a cultivation process with using a desorber; another portion of the photoautotrophic microorganism suspension is discharged in a finished biomass collector to be measured for the required values for the purpose of creating optimal conditions for photoautotrophic microorganism cultivation.

EFFECT: invention provides higher effectiveness of photoautotrophic microorganism cultivation, enabled integration of the presented method into the current production lines, improved energy efficiency and performance of photoautotrophic microorganism cultivation.

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