Modeling of microalgae growth in an AlgaBloom bioreactor

快速生长的单细胞藻类是一种生物质来源，可用作各种药品、化妆品、营养食品、化学品、动物饲料和生物燃料的原料。藻类的生物质生产是微不足道的，但很难优化。藻类生物质生产的高成本目前阻碍了生物燃料等高产量、低价值藻类产品的生产。阿尔加布卢姆公司开发了一种藻类生产系统，该系统有可能比同类藻类生产系统的制造和部署成本更低。该公司正致力于将该系统应用于藻类生物质的生产，首先是不列颠哥伦比亚省的两个试点项目。要解决的主要问题是从加拿大的规模、效率和成本方面量化阿尔法布鲁姆提议的增长系统的生产潜力

Rapid growing single celled algae are a biomass source that can be used as feedstock for a variety of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, chemicals, animal feeds, and biofuels. Algae biomass production is trivial to accomplish but difficult to optimize. The high cost of algae biomass production currently prohibits the production of high volume, low value algae products like biofuels. AlgaBloom has developed an algae production system that has the potential to be less expensive to manufacture and deploy than comparable algae production systems. The company is working to apply this system to the production of algae biomass beginning with two pilot projects in British Columbia. The main problem to be addressed is quantifying the production potential of AlgaBloom's proposed growth system in terms of size, efficiency, and cost in Canadian