AU2021106889A4 - Global Warming Reversal System - Google Patents

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AU2021106889A4
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Global Warming Reversal System ABSTRACT I. Disclosed invention consists of microbiological farming equipment: micro-organism growth vessel module, product drying and processing module, supported by other hardware. II. Primary intended purpose, is to absorb C02 from Earths atmosphere and process it into a solid, chemically stable form on a daily basis in a controllable,scaleable manner, in a rapidly and efficiently mass producable form. Ill. The invention is intended to be operated in partnership with burial of its captured C02 product, to give effect of controlled and scaleable removal from Earths atmosphere. IV. This equipment is of a standardized modular form to be: operated in farms of many units, of low technology/ skill requirements, and to allow accurate quantities surverying from a limited complement of measurement instruments. Complex shapes required for efficent fluid dynamics are to be made from castings, other materials from simple sheets and lengths of material. V. Energy requirements of this equipment are preferred to be met as self sustaining operation, from localised renewable energy sources. VI. Micro organism growth module consists of: preferred two, paralellogram shaped vessels, capable of holding 100L of a water based solution kept at optimum growth temperature for the desired micro organism culture. VII. The side and bottom walls of the growth vessel are cast from a mold matching the corrugations along the front wall surafaces in cement or plastics, and feature internal transitions from horizontal to vertical planes and bottom outlet that are of a parabolic rate of change to give low fluid flow resistance and low wear. VIII.Air is bubbled through the micro organism growth solution from the bottom and may also be supplemented with gas capture filters to increase absorbtion of C02, or adapt invention to other uses and products. IX. If the desired micro-organism is not light dependant (such as yeasts for processing alcohol production) the growth apparatus may be covered with materials opaque to light. X. In cold conditions and semi submerged in bodies of water, efficient insulative materials may be used to lower the temperature maintainence requirements, and may be supplied with microbiologically required illumination from the inside surfaces internally to the triangular truss, and have thermal coverings on exposed surfaces. XI. The invention may produce: Food products such as edible algae and bacteria products, sugars, and lipids, Gases such as Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Methane, and Ammonia, paper, fabrics and bioplastics, structural/Heavy/precious metals, and components of cement, net carbon negative fuel products including alcohols and butanol for direct application, sugars, starches to feed alcohol distillation cultures, and lipids for further processing. XII. The processing module, strains and sieves the micro-organism product at a rate that matches overall production, transforming a small fraction the volume of solution to be processed into parallel droplets of prefferred 3mm spherical size to use friction to keep the rate regular and limit impact kinetics, spaced the minimum distance apart at which they will remain separate upon dissolving against a flat surface of 2.4cm, at the maximum rate each successive droplet can completely dissolve separately, aproximately every 2.5 seconds. XIII.The receiving surface is pitched at a maximum downward angle of initial separate droplet dissolution and drainage along the surface upon a loose granular material, prefferred 16 degrees of arc from horizontal. This surface is made of heavier than water particulate, of a granular size that strains the growth solution free water from the micro-organism product, prefferred fine sand, and because of being a loose granular particulate can be transformed in volume from a large flat area of several square metres, to a prism of concentrated slurry smaller than a cubic metre. XIV. This product slurry is then immersed in an approximately 50% water/alcohol solution, which is then separated into micro-organism product and particulate straining medium, by bouyancy. XV. Evaporation to dry the micro-organism product is enhanced by hygroscopic alcohols that give lower evaporation temperature energy requirements and required drying time in heat assisted evaporation, such as by solar concentrators. Figure (a) Angled Tank central frame and front wall 3/4 front elevation. 00 4 3

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INTRODUCTION Global warming is a significant problem in many areas of technology and resource consumption. Human activity has increased carbon dioxide content of the Earths atmosphere by an estimated 48%. This may be temporally characterised as many millenia worth of accumulated biological carbon products, being released in a few decades. This causes environmental imbalance, resulting in Global Warming, a further 12GT is released per annum. Algae and Bacteria such as Chlorella, can absorb up to 2.5 times their own weight in C02 in a single day. They can also reproduce in under 24 hours, doubling their population. Use of this on a large scale to counteract Global Warming, in combination with permanent removal of the collected C02 from the earths biosphere by permanent burial in geologically stable circumstances, may be broadly characterised: as returning many millenia of geologically accumulated C02 released in a few decades by fossil fuel use, to its underground source of origin. This is also extendable to capture of C02 released by other processes. This shares principle with sequestration, but differs from published use of the term by exclusive application to already released atmospheric C02. The disclosed invention and system of use, is a micro-organism farming and processing apparatus and technique, intended to harness these abilities of Micro-organisms to some degree, to process atmospheric C02 it into a solid, chemically stable form on a daily basis in a controllable,scaleable manner, with the following attributes: • mechanically simple, low resource, and low skill and technology requirements for construction and operation, • consistent modular form allowing accurate quantites surveying, • adaptable to a variety of environments and climates, • resource efficient, with minimum wear, and to be partnered with use of non fossil fuels and localised renewable energy sources.
The disclosed invention offers improvements in suitability for these purposes over existing microbiology farming techniques and equipment such as racetrack ponds, tube farms, fishtank bioreactor vessels,and presents a method of processing microbiological products at the rate of production, within capacity of localised and renewable energy inputs. DESCRIPTION: points 1 to 59. The disclosed invention comprises: • a device for cyclically cultivating micro organisms in a water based solution-the growth vessel, points 1-14, and 23-27, supporting hardware, points 15-21, brief further considerations-points 28 35, and • a device for separating the cultivated micro-organisms from the solution points-the processing device, points 36-59.
1. Preferred farm configuration for units is in alignment parallel to the ecliptic with access paths between rows. 2. The growth vessel has clear light transmissive, non toxic plastic corrugated front and rear walls, see: Figure (a) Angled Growth Vessel centralframe andfront wall 3 quarterfront elevation-1 and 3, Figure (b) Growth Vessel exploded construction,isometric-5 and 8, Figure (f) Vertical Growth Vessel, centralframe andfront wall 3 quarterfront elevation-1, and a combined cast end wall and floor, Figure (a) Angled Growth Vessel centralframe andfront wall 3 quarterfront elevation-2, Figure (b) Growth Vessel exploded construction,isometric-6, Figure (b) Growth Vessel exploded construction,isometric-6, Figure (f) Vertical Growth Vessel, centralframe andfront wall 3 quarter front elevation-2, with outer cast retention frames Figure (b) Growth Vessel exploded construction,isometric-4 and9, and retention bolts that pass through all 3 front and rear wall structures Figure (a) Angled Growth Vessel centralframe andfront wall 3 quarterfront elevation-4 holes, Figure (b) Growth Vessel exploded construction,isometric-isometric axial lines. 3. A ventruri drain aperture Figure (d) Growth vesselprofile cross sections-1, with a pipe conection incorporated in the casting, located at bottom centre of vessel, Figure (b) Growth Vessel exploded construction,isometric-7, Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-4, the venturi form allows emptying of the vessel with pressure/velocity losses of the emptying fluid of less than 5%. 4. a support frame that sits on top of the vessel end walls, attached to which is a stirring vane located at the top Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-9. 5. Tubes for gas bubbling draped in from the top Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-0, and a protective lid of insulative material Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-7, and containing conduits for piping and wiring supporting function, Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-1 6. . Preferred configuration is 1OOL growth fluid capacity, with 2 parallelogram shaped growth vessels Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-2, of the form also shown in figure (a) and figure (b), in an triangular frame of 60 degree sides Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-8, containing the micro-organism growth solution, of maximum 15 centimetre depth to assure light penetration of entire growth solution volume at maximum saturation, maintained at optimum growth temperature for the micro-organism culture. 7. The front and rear wall corrugations are in a complementary opposite phase arrangement Figure (e) Corrugated base types plan view-1, 2 and 3, to give maximum thickness of vessel between front and rear walls/ thus maximum total illuminated fluid volume, preferred before radial light penetration limit is reached, Figure (e) Corrugated base types plan view-4. Two of these corrugations have equivalent solution volume exposure to halves of a single tube in a micro-organism tube farm. A tube that is round in cross section, projected and unrolled along a straight line assumes a sine wave like undulating profile which the corrugations approximate, this also applies to other shapes and resulting corrugations. 8. Round, elliptical or sinusoidal profiles are preferred to obtain maximum internal volume to light surface area. 9. Depending upon available energy resources and temperature maintenance requirements, growth volume may be increased from commercial corrugated sheet depth proportion of 1/2 width, Figure (e) Corrugated base types plan view-1, equilateral depth Figure (e) Corrugated base types plan view-2, or greater depth than width Figure (e) Corrugated base types plan view. Deeper corrugations may be less energy efficient to maintain optimum growth solution temperature due to increased surface area ratio to volume, in addition to the increased volume. advantage over racetrack ponds for micro-organism cultivation: 10. 100% light exposure to growth volume like tube farm systems, ponds deeper than maximum light penetration of saturated solution may have a growth zone only to light pen depth. 11. Lower resource and energy intensive: small, localised and distributed energy inputs to maintain desired temperature, stir and bubble growth solution. 12. Potentially small water evaporation losses, racetrack ponds as large open surface areas of water are subject to higher rates of evaporation. advantage over tube farms for micro-organism cultivation: 13. Higher thermal efficiency in maintaining optimum growth temperature for fluid volume in tube to suface contact area/light exposure. 14. Simultaneous flow/mixing throughout entire solution fluid volume in vessel with 100% light exposure with bubbling/kinetic stirring. This allows more effective distibution of temperature, nutirents,gases, by simultaneous bubbling/kinetic stirring throughout entire growth solution fluid. 15. Optimum Growth temperature maintenance, and control. Preferred temperature control hardware is an application of the same forms and techniques for high efficiency fluid dynamic volume and passage transitions used for growth drainage and distribution. Other than cast components, all parts may be assembled from flat sheets and simple materials. 16. Piping is adjacent to the inside surface of the growth vessel, fed with hot or cold air to adjust growth fluid temperature, from a centralised unit to serve many units Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-3. 17. Preferred temperature control pipe form is of rectangular form, that in sections adjacent to growth vessels Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-3, and adsorbent arrays Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-5, pipes 6, transforms pipe volume from relatively equal proportions of width and depth to a large side surface in comparison to the top and bottom walls, Figure (g) Temperature control pipe-1. These wall proportion transitions are at a paraboloid rate of angle change regarding distance from point of origin, which results in low pressure velocity flow losses, air enters at bottom, and leaves at top. It has cast top, bottom and end walls in cement and/or heat resistant material, Figure (g) Temperature control pipe-2, and thermally conductive metal side walls Figure (g) Temperature control pipe-3. 18. Preferred temperature control source comprises a cast fire resistant or refactory (preferred cement) block Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-3, with an even number of venturi port mouths, arranged in concentric rings Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-9, that curve at a decreasing parabaloid rate from the mouth to admit flow across a 45 degrees of arc range whilst conserving as much fluid momentum as possible. 19. The distribution venturi port mouths are covered by a rotating cone connected to a central shaft Figure (m) shutter cone side view, Figure (n) Shutter cone end view, Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-8, with a low friction 30 degree angle of incidence, and two opposing ports that match the profile of port mouths Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-9 . This rotates upon bearings Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-1. The port openings may be 180 degree opposing, or offset as in inner ports-Figure (n) Shutter cone end view, to stagger the change in pressure from ports opening and closing so that one is always partially open, and thus flow oscillates between a minumum and open maximum, rather than ceasing with every revolution with backwash. 20. Inside this cone is a conical shutter covering each concentric set of ports Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-5 and10, that may be withdrawn to open the passages actuation rods and rotating linkages Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-4,4b,11,11b, to expose heating or cooling vessel pipes to heating or cooling inputs in series with equal duration determined by rotation speed. 21. These inputs are supplied with heated or cooled air via cast in pipe connections Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-3b, propelled by a heat tolerant centrally mounted propellor Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-12, rotating on a hub, on the same shaft assembly as the shutter cone, Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-2, upon bearings, Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-1, Figure (i) Propellerfan and base disc one blade-5. The propellor has a base disc for structural stability,strength and balance, Figure (h) Distribution plenum cross section-12b, Figure (i) Propellerfan and base disc one blade-5, and an odd number of blades (preferred 3) curved through 180 degrees, with blade airfoil section aproximating neutral cambered airfoil of 15% thickness to chord ratio of even upper and lower surface area Figure (i) Propellerfan and base disc one blade-2 and-3, at a positive angle of attack of between 3 and 15 degrees Figure (i) Propellerfan and base disc one blade-4, adjusted to desired cooling/heating air velocity to match overall size of unit/number of ports, and length of piping runs. Blades are swept forward to a minimum of blade chord length Figure (i) Propellerfan and base disc one blade-6, to stagger the fluid impulse from different angles entering the port mouths, with leading blade edge Figure (j) flow circuit 1-1, imparting its area impulse to the medium to be propelled Figure (j)flow circuit 1-1 andflow la, Figure (k)flow circuit 2-1a, ahead of the following section Figure (j)flow circuit 1-2, and change in flow angle Figure (j)flow circuit 1 2a. The bulk of flow will be propelled down the passage in its path but a smaller proportion may travel into the opposing port that is not in its line of travel, Figure (k)flow circuit 2-2a. This staggering effect of blade sweep, is continous from the base disc Figure (j)flow circuit 1-4, up to the hub root of the propellor, Figure (j)flow circuit 1-1, root of blades, Figure (j) flow circuit 1-3 and flow Figure (j) flow circuit 1a-3a, and Figure (k) flow circuit la-3a. 22. A low odd number of blades, propelling flow into a larger number of even numbered, opposing radial arrangement of paraboloid transition ports, precipitates non turbulent flow into ports by ensuring propelled fluid impulses are not from opposing directions over the same distance. Growth vessel function. 23. The stirring vanes are located at the top of the growth vessel and push down vertically oriented slightly toward one front or back wall. Vertical striations of fluid pressure are created by flow against the corrugations, which laminarizes the kinetic impulse to consistently stir the entire solution. The curves of the cast bottom and transition into side walls Figure (d) Growth vessel profile cross sections-2 and 3, allow maximum fluid momentum to be retained from each stirring impulse and result in circular flow down one wall, across the base and up the opposing wall, some circularity of flow is also at each end of the vessel against the flat end walls Figure (d) Growth vessel profile cross sections-4. 24. The drain port at bottom of the vessel features a paraboloid rate of plane transition venturi to allow low resistance fluid flow during emptying. 25. Air from Earths atmosphere is bubbled through the growth vessels from the bottom, by flexible pipes (preferred non toxic plastic) preferred with ends containing diagraphm point or elastic slit immersion valves, draped in from the top and secured at regular intervals across the bottom of the vessel in a wire or low profile rack. C02 is absorbed from the atmosphere to support micro organism growth. 26. Bubbling may also be supplemented with C02 expelled by adsorbent modules/packets, which have been loaded with C02 by being placed for sufficient duration in the exhaust system of internal combustion devices. 27. Adsorbent envelopes would have maximum thickness allowing 100% adsorbent access to gas to be adsorbed, and be formed of a non flammable, permiable container holding Sodium Bicarbonate, lithium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, Zeolites, other adsorbents as appropriate. Additional pipes of the growth vessel temperature control system may be placed in the centre cavity of the preferred configuration frame Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-5a, or underneath it Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-5a, to heat adsorbent envelopes sufficiently to precipitate expulsion of captured gases where appropriate into a sealed plastic envelope, connected, valved, and pumped into the bubbling system. A suggested stacked arrangement of such pipes and adsorbent envelopes is illustrated in Figure (o)suggested adsorbent arrangement, if surrounded with temperature insulation Figure (c) Dual unit end elevation cross section-7, heat may be forced back into some of the processing pipes and envelopes. OTHER PRODUCTS 28. Food products such as edible algae and bacteria products, sugars and lipids may be produced. 29. Gases such as Oxygen,Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Methane, and Ammonia and others may be produced. 30. Paper, fabrics and bioplastics, including for filtering and containing growth cultures, and for gas capture filters may be produced. 31. Structural/Heavy/precious metals may be obtained by selective extraction from growth solution by microbiology cultures, and components of cement. 32. Net carbon negative fuel products may be produced, due to proportion of product being smaller than C02 gathered and removed from the biosphere and atrmosphere, and in effect using captured C02 to some degree as a storage medium, which may in turn be disposed of by C02 capture. Sugars and starches for alcohol distillation, methane production, and lipids may be obtained from micro organism cultures such as Scendesemus Algae grown within the system, for distillation, refinement and fractination, some fuels may be made directly from microrganism cultures, such as bio butanol petroleum substitute, comustible gases, alcohols. FARM SYSTEM COFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENTS 33. Preferred farm configuration for units is in alignment end to end parallel to the ecliptic with service access paths between rows. 34. The invention is preferred to be used with overhead reflectors shutters to utilise and control direct sunlight for solar heating, with secondary constant light to support organism growth including photosynthesis. 35. The invention is adaptable to different environments, climates, lighting periods, and water based or semi submerged operation with use of insulation materials, appropriate renewable energy sources, and lighting where required upon inner growth vessel surface. Inverted semi submerged pairs may form a solar concentrator. 36. Processing device. The processing device performs the first stage of three, in producing a dried micro-organism product at the daily rate of micro-organism production by growth. 37. These stages are: separation of the micro-organism bodies from the water/ bouyancy and wier based separation of the product from the processing medium of the previous stage assisted by a 50% ethanol or methanol solution/ and evaporation of the remaining alcohol water content of the product. The second and third stages may be performed by apparatus of large enough capacity to serve many growth vessels. 38. One preferred volume vessel of 100 Litres, takes 50 minutes to be processed by the device, in a single day one processing device may serve many growth vessels. 39. The growth vessel solution, is drained into piping that deposits it to a distribution apparatus, preferred of the form described in points 20 to 24, with modifications for processing movement of liquid. This central plenum block rotating conical shutter control, equally portions the quantity of growth solution flow in series, via venturi and paraboloid rate of pipe constriction and direction change into 50mm or less dripper pipes, ensuring pressure index velocity loss in gravity induced flow is less than 5% and normalises flow velocity in Bernoulli effect increase in velocity in entering the venturi/ working against increased ratio of pipe surface area to volume of fluid of of many 50mm or less diameter pipe walls. If desired the propellor described in points 23 and 24 can be adapted to propel growth fluid by increasing the blade angle of attack to between 30 and 45 degrees, and the airfoil chord to thickness ratio to 20%. 40. Parallel distribution is through many 50mm diameter or less, same length pipes of the fluid to be simultaneously drained through 400 drippers. 41. The flow rate and droplet size are determined by static fluid pressure in gravity feed to adjustable axially threaded drippers, and is preferred set at 2.5 seconds per 3mm droplet, which allows each droplet to fully dissolve against the receiving surface before another is issued from the same dripper. 42. For permanent operation with fixed species of micro-organisms, drilled holes the of optimum size in plastic tube, may be sufficient to control dripping rate, fixed non adjustible drippers are shown, figure (I) straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-3. 43. The dripper pipes are placed 1.2 cm above the receiving surface, to allow 3mm droplet free fall fineness ratio to form fully in length, maximum 3 times the 3mm spherical width, and entirely separate from the nozzle before contact with the receiving surface. 44. The 2.5 second dissolving time and 1.2cm height and minimizes kinetic impact splashing, receiving surface erosion, which increase with height, limiting receiving surface absorbtion of each droplet to elastic distortion of the whole droplet without shatterring into separate bouncing sub droplets. 45. The dripper pipes have dripper ports placed in a row along the pipes at 2.4cm intervals, distributing the 400 approximately simultaneous, 3mm droplets far enough apart for the maximum splash edge of each droplet to touch or be adjacent but not overlap to any significant proportion, figure(I) straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-3. 46. A total of 9.6m wide parallel receiving surface is provided in multiple conveyor belts and receiving surface for 400 droplets at 2.4cm apart. 47. The receiving surface is composed of a water permiable fabric surface conveyor belt , figure(I) straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-8, preferred canvas or woven synthetic thread with a waterproof flexible rubber, neoprene or similar material wall at both edges 4mm high and wide, with the belt upper surface borne by a metal perforated support plate , figure (I) straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-2, with a gutter underneath to gather water. 48. These are inclined to a slope of 2 vertical to 7 horizontal or 16 degrees of arc, which assists drainage forward and down at an even rate without sufficient gravity induced flow coalescing and forming difference and erosion patterns. The growth solution is strained from the growth solution by a layer of heavier than water particulate material (preferred fine sand) a few millimetres thick (preferred 4). The conveyor belt moves at the rate of 2.5cm per second down the slope. 49. This granular particulate is deposited by evenly spaced apparatus preferred chutes or granule sprinklers, figure (I) straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-4, and rolled flat to the same height as the edge dam walls by a roller, figure (I) straining conveyor component placement side cross sectionnot to scale-5, at 4mm consistency from the lowest point of belt, upslope of the drippers by a 10 cm wider than the overhead dripper pipe array. 50. At every few square cm of its area (preferred 5cm), the water permiable fabric surface conveyor belt, is perforated with flat top rivet studs that protrude half the desired depth of particulate material, or has a square mesh of synthetic thread material to that depth attached at every cross joint, to give rise to adhesion gradients between grains in the receiving particulate layer, , figure (I) straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-1. 51. The size of the particulate granules, conveyor belt, and supporting hardware such as rollers, is dependant upon: the size of the micro-organism bodies in cultivation, and availible materials such as the width of fabric from which conveyor belts are constructed. 52. In each dripping event from the total growth solution, 337ml of the growth solution is strained every 2.5 seconds for 50 minutes, which processes 100L of cultivated micro-organism product per cycle. The strained product at this point contains only internally retained water/growth solution of equal or less fliud mass than the micro-organism bodies. 53. The receiving surface particulate and strained micro-organisms, are dumped into chutes, figure(I) straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-10, off the end of the conveyor belt into a collection drum. This is enhanced by the negative gradient,overhanging surface past the end, created by the surface angle between upper and lower end rollers, figure (I)straining conveyor component placement side cross sectionnot to scale-6. 54. A preferred stiff bristle brush held by light spring pressure, or Jets of air remove any remaining particulate and micro-organism remnants from the underside of the conveyor belt, and this falls into the collection chute, figure (I)straining conveyor component placement side cross section,not to scale-9. A slightly protruding smooth block maintains pressure against the overhanging belt surface to assist in removing particulate granules to fall from the belt , figure (I) straining conveyor component placement side cross sectionnot to scale-7. 55. The production fluid volume is transformed during cultivation from a prism of 15cm deep, 1.3m high, and 80cm wide/ to 2 9 6 h fractions of its total volume (preferred 100L) every 2.5 seconds, of a prism 9.6m wide and 3mm high for simultaneous 2.5 second drainage/ to concentration into cylindrical prism collection drums. 56. The remaining microrganism particulate slurry can then be immersed in 50% aprox water methanol or ethanol which can be produced for the purpose in other growth vessels shielded from light, in a sealed conditions to prevent overall evaporation losses, and separated from the straining particulate by difference in bouyancy. 57. Once separated from the micro-organism product, if preferred closed cycle recovery evaporation drying, may be effect recovery of the processing alcohol. 58. The energy requirement of state change in evaporation of the ethanol/methanol solution is sustantially less than that required to evaporate the water based cultivation solution, and can be effect complete drying of the micro-organism production in a single day from localised and limited energy sources unlike many industrial processes that rely on concentrated and stored forms of heat energy. 59. The hygroscopic effect of ethanol or methanols is used to draw out remaining internally held water from the micro-organism bodies in the concentrated from slurry product, and assist in completely drying it out during evaporation.
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  1. Global Warming Reversal System. CLAIMS 1. The form of the growth vessel, with corrugated front and rear wall cross section resembling an unrolled tube, allows: 100% light exposure of growth solution, and diffusion and stirring simultaneously of the entire growth solution, and maintenance of optimum growth environment, within the capacity of localised renewable energy sources.
  2. 2. The processing module and processing, with materials of lower evaporation energy requirements than the water of the growth solution, process and dry the the product within localised renewable energy requirements, at a rate that matches microorganism production.
  3. 3. The working proportion ratios of volume of solutions, surface geometry and rate of surface transitions in application to farming of micro-organsims, form part of the invention.
  4. 4. The invention is cheaply and rapidly mass producable, and features casting from molds of all complex shapes and compound curves in surfaces. Standardized form and placement of the invention in large scale use, makes accurate quantities surveying possible with smaller complement of instruments than the number of units and sufficient placement data.
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