GB2320031A - Apparatus for the culture of microrganisms in the presence of light - Google Patents
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- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
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Abstract
Microorganisms such as algae or photosynthetic bacteria are cultured in an apparatus comprising an arrangement of parallel passageways and at least one pump to circulate the liquid culture of microorganisms through the passageways. The pump comprises a rotor with flexible vanes which rotates inside a passageway to provide a pumping impulse.
Description
CULTURE OF MICRO-ORGANISMS
The invention relates to the culture of plant or animal micro-organisms to provide an economic harvest.
It is one object of this invention to provide apparatus for the purpose specified, using low cost and reliable components, and which is particularly efficient in use.
According to the invention in one aspect there is provided apparatus for use in growing a culture of micro-organisms, the apparatus comprising an arrangement of elongate passageways disposed in generally parallel relation and connected together to define a substantially continuous flow path, at least one side of the passageways being at least partially transparent to light, pumping means being present within one or more of the passageways arranged to circulate a liquid culture of micro organisms through the apparatus.
It is a preferred feature of the invention that each passageway be provided with independent or dedicated pump means. The pump means should be located adjacent the inlet end of the passageway so as to circulate the liquid culture through the length of the passageway. Where the passageway is very long extra pump means may be provided, e.g. at intervals of about 10 to about 100 metres.
The pump means may take a wide variety of forms. Preferably the pump means comprises a rotor in a stator therefor, the stator forming part, e.g. a wall, of the passageway. The rotor may be made of metal, plastics, timber, composites, rubber; or the like. Preferably each pump has a flexible impeller which is housed within the passageway dimensioned so as to compress vanes of the impeller, thereby to accelerate the movement of the culture liquid. Preferably the vanes are formed of a natural or synthetic flexible material, e.g. neoprene, food grade rubber, plastics, VITON; and the like.
The passageways may be made of a wide variety of materials which are transparent (or at least translucent) to light radiation. The light may be natural or artificial, e.g.
incandescent, fluorescent, discharge, light emitting diodes, or the like. The light source may be external to the apparatus or it may be internal, in the latter case the heat generated may be used to maintain the temperature of the culture being treated.
The passageways may be made of rigid or flexible tubing. The passageways may be of any suitable cross-sectional shape, such as circular, oval, box section, triangular; or the like. Most preferably the passageways are rigid and formed of polycarbonate or the like.
In one specific aspect the invention provides apparatus for the culture of microorganisms, the apparatus comprising a deck having a floor and a roof, partition walls being present between the floor and the roof to form generally parallel passageways, the passageways opening into a main plenum conduit at each end, an inlet being present at one conduit and an outlet present at the other, the roof being formed of a light transmission material, a pump device extending across each passageway, the device comprising a rotor having radially spaced apart flexible vanes, the wall of the passageway in the region of the rotor being dimensioned and shaped to flex the vanes as the rotor rotates, thus to pump a suspension of micro organisms along the respective passageway.
Apparatus of the invention may take a variety of forms. For example, it may be a purpose built wall in the open, or it may form the lining to an existing building, e.g.
barn roof The apparatus may be generally arched or curved according to the circumstances of the installation. Extra layers may be present, e.g. to prevent or reduce the risk of overheating in the day and overcooling at night. The layers may be arranged to provide a flowing cooling or heating medium, e.g. gas or liquid. If one uses triple wall polycarbonate sheet, outer surface passageways may be plugged at pump and non-pump end. This enables good winter and summer operation. In winter, the extra layer is full of air or preferably less heat conducting media. This extra layer will essentially act as double glazing, reducing conductive heat loss. In summer this layer is filled with a conducting liquid, such that excess heat from culture is conducted through extra layer liquid phase to the exterior. Circulation of extra layer liquid may not be necessary. Further enhanced cooling may be effected by sprinkling water onto external surface-evaporative cooling. At night the extra layer liquid would be drained from the reactor to leave an air filled insulating channel. During the day, extra layer may be filled with liquid for cooling.
The extra layer liquid (not culture) may incorporate wavelength adjusting molecules to convert the non-photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) wavelength present in sunlight into PAR wavelengths. This will increase the efficiency of sunlight usage and also reduce heat accumulation by the culture (e.g. fluorescence). Wavelength modifying chemicals are not added to the culture containing passageways. The extra layer liquid may be an organic solvent enabling a wider range of dye shifting agents to be used. Wavelength shift dyes or absorbents or other agents may be added to the medium to affect the culture, e.g. to induce a specific secondary metabolite accumulation or diminution in the biomass. Photochemicals may be added to absorb UV from sunlight.
In another aspect the invention provides a method of growing micro-organisms, the method comprising pumping a suspension of the micro-organisms along generally parallel passageways arranged in a continuous flow path through apparatus having at least one wall at least partially transparent to light, the pumping being done by means of at least one pump located within at least one passageway.
A wide variety of micro organisms may be treated in the apparatus of the invention.
Examples include microalgae, macroalgae tissue, photosynthetic bacteria, photosynthetic archaebacteria, heterotophic bacteria fungi, plant tissue culture, water fleas; and the like. Apparatus of the invention may be used in the culture of microorganisms for the production of colourings and anti-oxidants, fishfeeds, pharmaceuticals and the like.
Apparatus of the invention may maintain continuously growing cultures of
Haematococcus for several months to provide commercial harvests of Astaxanthin.
Apparatus of the invention can be used for the culture of strains of Dunaliella, a unicellular, flagellated green algae without a cell wall which contain high concentration (up to 10%) of Beta-carotene when growing under high light intensities and high salinities (100gun). Beta-carotene has traditionally been used as a food colouring agent and may have medical uses. One major benefit of the apparatus of the invention is purity of the products. Although several companies grow Dunaliella in open ponds, product contamination regularly occurs. Apparatus of the invention may maintain continuously growing contaminant- free cultures of Dunaliella resulting in high purity
Beta-carotene.
Apparatus of the invention can be used to produce live feeds, on site, or dried and processed algae based feeds that are shipped to users.
Micro algae cultivated in the apparatus of the invention provide the most effective biological means know to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At the same time, the biomass they produce can be used as fuel.
Micro algae can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 25 times faster than the fastest growing trees. Carbon dioxide is removed from stack gases before it even enters the atmosphere. Trees, on the other hand, remove carbon dioxide after it enters the earth's atmosphere. Biomass from micro algae can be used as a fusel. Micro algae produced at the site of a fossil fuel burning plant could be directly fed into the fuel combustion process.
Micro algae cultivated in accordance with the invention can supply quantities adequate for all purposes ranging from screening to production.
Apparatus of the invention may be incorporated into a multistage waste water treatment system. For example, a high strength organic waste or substrate may be used as the starting material which is passed through successive stage of treatment with
high rate anserobes photosynthetic anaerobes
photosynthetic aerobes
algae
aerobes
algae
microfauna
In one specific method, the apparatus is first filled with the water. Raw effluent is then introduced into the reactor at low rate. Samples of algallbacterial innocula are added to the influent (e.g. innocula obtained from a farm yard when treating livestock rearing effluents). The pump system is set at a low circulation rate to generate low turbulence.
Slime layers form on passageway inner walls. Within the slime layer consortia of bacteria, algae, microflora and fauna colonise. The pump rate is gradually increased to operating velocity, (i.e. not sufficient to dislodge slime layer). This colonisation may take 2 to 8 weeks dependent on effluent. The effluent input rate is increased gradually according to the quality of discharge.
One will observe that different types of biomass occupy different zones in a linear sequence within the reactor. The zone adjacent to the effluent input will be dominated by an anaerobic (oxygen free) consortium of organisms, this is succeeded by oxygen producing microalgae which are in turn replaced by a complex community of algae and bacteria and the organisms which feed upon them (protozoa, rotifers and nematodes).
As effluent enters the reactor, the anaerobes assimilate the complex organic molecules present in the effluent. They in turn release metabolites utilisable by bacteria/algae in the neighbouring zone, which in turn provide feed for the rotifers etc. The organic strength and nutrient content of the effluent is gradually decreased as it passes along the length of the reactor. Excess biomass will shear from the inner walls and either readhere to the passageway walls further down the reactor or be washed out of the system in the final discharge where they will be readily sedimented/collected for other uses.
The end product (and intermediate products) may be used for a variety purposes, e.g.
as a feed for fish, etc. The apparatus may also be useful in connection with conventional tissue or microbial fermentations e.g. brewing. The multistage operation may be a continuous cultivation or a batch process.
Apparatus of the invention may also be used in the treatment of gases.
In order that the invention may be well understood it will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a plan view of one embodiment of apparatus of the invention;
Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view taken of one pump in the apparatus of Figure
1;
Figure 3 shows end views of different embodiments of apparatus;
Figure 4 shows one mounting of apparatus of Figure 1;
Figure 5 is a perspective view of apparatus of the invention mounted on the
side of a tank containing a culture to be treated;
Figure 6 is an exploded view of one pump in apparatus of the invention;
Figure 7 is a perspective view of an elongate arch incorporating apparatus of
the invention, and
Figure 8 is a front elevation and side elevation of two forms of apparatus
mounted on the roof of existing buildings.
The apparatus shown in Figures 1 to 4 comprises a deck or platform 1 formed of floor 2 and a roof 3 having vertical partitions 4 to define parallel passageways 5. As shown in Figure 3 the passageways 5 are rectangular in cross-section. The ends of the adjacent partitions are linked together by end couplers 6, which extend longitudinally of the apparatus so that the passageways together define a continuous serpentine or zig zag flow path. An inlet 7 is present at one end, and an outlet 8 at the other of one of the couplers. The platform is made of a light transmissive plastics material such as polycarbonate. Such items are cornmercially available at reasonable prices.
A pump 10 is present in and extends across each passageway. As shown in Figures 2 amd 5, each pump comprises a rotor shaft 11 having radially spaced apart flexible blades or vanes 12, which have a reinforcement 13 at the their free ends. The rotor is formed of metal, plastics, wood or the like; the vanes are of rubber, neoprene or the like. As shown in Figure 2, the rotor 11 is mounted in a stator block 14 having through holes 15 to receive ends of passageway pipe 5. The block has a lid 16 defining a flat wall to flex the vanes 12, thereby to provide a pumping impulse to the flow. In this way, a culture suspension is given a gentle urge forward each time the rotor rotates a full circle so adding turbulence to the culture. A motor 17 (Fig. 4) is provided to rotate the rotors 11.
As shown in Figure 3, the deck 1 may take a variety of forms, and may be mono or multi layer, and the passageways may be of different internal shapes.
As shown in Figure 4, the platform 1 is pivotally mounted on a support 20 so that it may be inclined towards a natural light source, i.e. the sun, or an artificial one, not shown.
In contrast to other bioreactors where a single pump or agitation mechanism moves a large volume of liquid, it will be noted that apparatus of this invention incorporates one pump for each passageway. (There may be circumstances where two or more passageways share a pump).
In the embodiment shown in Figure 6, the impeller 11 is mounted on a rotary shaft 18 powered by a motor 17 (Figure 4) at one end. Bearings 21 and seals 22 are present, together with end plates 23 as required. The rotor extends across to the opposite side of the apparatus where the rotor portion 24 has no impeller. Different lengths of rotor may be joined together to rotate in synchronism.
As shown in Figures 6 to 8 apparatus of the invention may form part of building structure-area under sunlight contact surface may be used for industrial, agricultural, domestic purposes. Retrofits of existing building structures, e.g. installation of wastewater treatment facilities where lack of land area prohibits new buildings are also possible.
Apparatus of the invention may include specially designed polycarbonate or plastic sheet extrusions where the channels are substantially circular for biomass passage.
Circular section is preferred because flow characteristics and turbulence distribution are more uniform in a substantially circular channel.
Where the apparatus is a continuous bioreactor one can utilise wavelength enhancing dyes at different stages along the reactor, e.g. for the induction of beta carotene synthesis and accumulation in Dunaliella species, beta carotene inducing wavelengths may be minimised in the early growth stages while the later stages towards the end of the reactor beta carotene inducing wavelengths are enhanced. Partitions may be present along the length of the apparatus so that different conditions may apply to different passageways, e.g. temperature, illumination and pH and the like. The method may be applied to Haematococcus or Prnphridium cruentum.
In the case of waste water treatment (fixed film growth) the following may apply:
Anaerobes Photosynthetic Photosynthetic aerobes Crustacae etc anaerobes
Secondary treatment Tertiary Quaternary
The following is an example of Spirulina growth media:
Dissolve the following weight of salt in the appropriate volume of water from the hot tap.
Volume 1 litre 10 litres 20 litres
Salt (grams)
NaHCO3 18 180 360
K2HPO4 0.5 5 10
NaNO3 2.5 25 50
K2 SO4 1 10 20
NaCl 1 10 20
MgSO4 0.2 2 4
CaCl2 0.04 0.4 0.8
When the Basal salts are completely dissolved add:
Solution A 1 ml 10ml 20ml
Solution B 1ml 10ml 20ml
Fe-EDTA solution 1ml lOml 20ml For lox micronutrient
Solution A ml 0.1 1 2
Solution B 0.1 1 2 ml
Fe-EDTA solution 1 10 20 ml
Trace element solution A (to make 1 litre) 1 Oxsol H3BO3 g 2.86 28.60
MnCl2 g 1.81 18.10 ZnSO4.7H20 g 0.22 2.20
CuS04.5 H20 g 0.079 0.79
MoO3 g 0.015 0.15
Trace element solution B (to make 1 litre) lOxsol NH4VO3 mg 22.96 229.60
K2 Ca2 (SO4 )4.24H20 mg 96 960.00 NiSO4.7H2O mg 47.85 478.50 Na 2WO4.2 H20 mg 17.94 179.40
Te2(SO4)3 mg 40 400.00
Co(NO3)2.6 H20 mg 43.98 439.80
The pH of the resulting media should be around 9.5 pH 9-10 is acceptable for
Spirulina growth. CO2/air mixture 1:20 to 100% CO2 is bubbled into the culture.
The following is an example of culture of anaerobes in apparatus of the invention.
Anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria such as Rhodopsuedomonas sp. require complex carbon substrates such as lactic acid.
In use, a culture of micro-organisms capable of photosynthesis is added to an aqueous nutrient medium to form a suspension. The culture is introduced to the apparatus via the inlet. The apparatus is then presented to the light, and the pumps energised by motors so as to circulate the suspension through the apparatus with a degree of turbulence. The agitation and exposure to the light enhances the rate of growth of the micro-organisms. Nutrients are added via the inlet as required, e.g. mineral salts and CO2 The inclination of the platform is adjusted for maximum exposure, either manually or automatically.
The invention provides apparatus useful in the large scale culture of micro-organisms and having a combination of useful properties, in particular good light utilisation, efficiency and control of turbulence, temperature and gas transfer. The apparatus may readily be sterilised and may be used to cultivate a wide range of micro organisms.
The invention extends to each and every novel and inventive feature and combinations of features disclosed herein.
Claims (14)
1. Apparatus for use in growing a culture of micro-organisms, the apparatus
comprising an arrangement of elongate passageways disposed in generally
parallel relation and connected together to define a substantially continuous
flow path, at least one side of the passageways being at least partially
transparent to light, pumping means being present within at least one or more
of the passageways arranged to circulate a liquid culture of micro organisms
through the apparatus.
2. Apparatus according to Claim 1, wherein the pump means is present adjacent
the inlet end of the passageway.
3. Apparatus according to Claim 1 or 2, wherein the pump means is present in
each of the passageways.
4. Apparatus according to any preceding Claim, wherein each pump has a flexible
impeller which is housed within the passageway dimensioned so as to compress
vanes of the impeller, thereby to accelerate the movement of the culture liquid.
5. Apparatus according to any preceding Claim, wherein the passageways are the
generally box section passageways of a preformed plastics body.
6. Apparatus according to Claim 5, wherein the body is formed of polycarbonate
or the like.
7. Apparatus according to Claim 4 or 5, wherein the body has a plurality of layers
of partitions.
8. Apparatus for the culture of photosynthetic micro-organisms, the apparatus
comprising a deck having a floor and a roof, partition walls being present
between the floor and the roof to form generally parallel passageways, the
passageways opening into a main plenum conduit at each end, an inlet being
present at one conduit and an outlet present at the other, the roof being formed
of a light transmission material, a pump device extending across each
passageway, the device comprising a rotor having radially spaced apart flexible
vanes, the wall of the passageway in the region of the rotor being dimensioned
and shaped to flex the vanes as the rotor rotates, thus to pump a suspension of
micro organisms along the passageway.
9. A method of growing micro-organisms, the method comprising pumping a
suspension of the micro-organisms along generally parallel passageways
arranged in a continuous flow path through apparatus having at least one wall
at least partially transparent to natural or artificial sunlight, the pumping being
done by means of at least one pump located within each passageway.
10. A method according to Claim 9, wherein the pumping is done using a pump
including a flexible impeller located adjacent the inlet end of the passageway.
11. A method according to Claim 9 or 10, wherein raw effluent is added to water
in the apparatus, the pump is run to cause the liquid culture to circulate at a
low circulation low turbulence rate to cause or allow slime layers to form on
the inner walls of the passageways.
12. A method according to Claim 11, wherein different types of biomass occupy
different zones in a linear sequence within the apparatus.
13. A method according to Claim 12, wherein the apparatus contains successively
from the inlet: anaerobic organisms; oxygen producing algae; and protozoa,
rotifers and nematodes.
14. A method according to any preceding Claim, including adding gas to the
apparatus.
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