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[What Makes Continuous Culture Possible?]
(Overwhelming advantages of our equipment)
This is also a condition that makes continuous culture possible, but first of all, it is a necessary condition for general algae cultivation to succeed.
There are three.
① Prevention of contamination
Contamination (mixing in foreign matter) is the biggest problem with algae cultivation.
The easiest way is to cultivate in a clean room, but this requires a huge amount of capital for the initial investment in equipment, and all subsequent operations must also be clean room specifications.
At this stage, it is clear that it will not be profitable.
Moreover, if such a huge amount of capital is spent and the cultivation system can only be done in batches, it is out of the question.
② Prevention of adhesion and sedimentation
The second is prevention of adhesion and sedimentation.
The degree of this varies depending on the type of algae, but if adhesion occurs inside the cultivation equipment, light is blocked and photosynthesis is not possible, so growth stops there.
If that happens, there is no point in continuing the culture, so all the algae will be harvested.
Algae that have settled at the bottom of the device will no longer receive light, so they will not grow and will become a cause of bacterial proliferation.
③ Temperature control
Sharing light in a sealed device, and the fact that the liquid that is being irradiated is colored, is almost the same as a solar water heater.
The temperature rise when exposed to sunlight outdoors is particularly severe, and it is extremely difficult to lower the temperature to a level where culture is possible.
Cooling efficiency depends heavily on the shape of the culture system.
As far as I know, there are no culture devices other than ours that enable continuous culture.
That means that there are no culture devices that meet the above three conditions.
There is only one culture system that meets the adhesion and precipitation requirements of the above three conditions almost 100%.
It's a bit self-serving, but it's the biodome system that I set up and operated in Hawaii, a large-scale production facility.
This is due to the amazing capabilities of a stirring device that was developed specifically for this biodome.