KR20150128551A - Photo-Bioreactor for Photosynthesis Autotrophic Organisms - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a photobioreactor having light scattering particles or a pallet ring inside a cylindrical reactor having a light source at a central portion, thereby maximizing optical efficiency.
The photobioreactor according to the present invention is excellent in light efficiency and can cultivate a high concentration of photobioreactors and is useful for culturing efficient photosynthetic autotrophic organisms by increasing the driving convenience.
Description
The present invention relates to a photobioreactor having light scattering particles or a pallet ring inside a cylindrical reactor having a light source at a central portion, thereby maximizing optical efficiency.
Global oil and natural gas depletion and instability of the supply and demand system are being created. In addition, restrictions on the use of fossil fuels are becoming apparent in order to protect ecosystems such as climate change and environmental destruction. As a result, countries around the world are making efforts to increase the efficiency of existing thermal power generation as well as new and renewable energy, and to raise the environment friendly. Biological energy production technology using photobiore is attracting attention as a technology to replace existing fossil energy have.
Photosynthetic autotrophic organisms can grow using water, carbon dioxide and sunlight, and they can be cultivated anywhere in wastelands, coasts, and oceans, and they do not compete with existing land crops in terms of land or space. Photosynthetic autotrophic organisms accumulate large amounts of lipids (up to 70%) in vivo according to culture conditions, and the oil (lipid) production per unit area is 50-100 times higher than conventional edible crops such as soybeans, The possibility is very high. Biodiesel, which is produced from photosynthetic autotrophic organisms such as microalgae, can reduce pollutants such as fine dust and sulfur compounds as compared with conventional diesel fuel, and is suitable as an environment friendly vehicle fuel.
In recent years, due to the increase in prices of cereal resources due to the production of biofuels and concerns about food resources, research on the use of photosynthetic autotrophic organisms has focused on the production of biofuels for transportation, In addition to basic research such as microbial improvement, reactor and system research, application research is proceeding on a large scale.
These photosynthetic autotrophic organisms can be cultivated in large quantities and, unlike edible crops, can be harvested on a daily basis. In addition, the photosynthetic autotrophic organisms can grow directly by absorbing the high concentration of carbon dioxide (15% level) in the by-product gas such as thermal power plants, so the effect of reducing carbon dioxide is also great. In addition, the photosynthetic autotrophic organisms have attracted great interest as potential production materials of high value added medicines, colorants, cosmetics, nutrients of proteins and carbohydrates, and fine chemicals. Carotene (Carotene ), Astaxanthin, anticancer drugs, and pharmaceutical proteins are being sold all over the world.
The production technology of high value-added products using photosynthetic autotrophic organisms is composed of four processes: 1) photosynthetic self-nutrient culture, 2) harvesting, 3) extraction of useful substances, and 4) product conversion. Among them, the cultivation process of photosynthetic autotrophic organisms is very important in terms of economic efficiency of the entire process. For example, in the case of microalgae biofuel production, microalgae cultivation, harvesting, oil extraction, and biodiesel conversion processes account for 42%, 22%, 20% and 16% of the total process, respectively.
In particular, in order to efficiently produce photosynthetic autotrophic organisms, the development of high efficiency photosynthetic autotrophic bioreactors and high concentration culture techniques has been attempted.
Methods for culturing photosynthetic autotrophic organisms, such as microalgae, can be divided into two groups: outdoor culture and photosynthetic bioreactor bioreactors.
In the case of the outdoor culture method, for example, in the form of a pond or a water channel circulating the medium through the outer ring, it is difficult to cultivate a high concentration and to be contaminated by other microorganisms, thereby increasing the cost of recovering the photosynthetic product There are disadvantages. Accordingly, researches on photosynthetic bioreactors having the advantage that high concentration of photosynthetic autotrophic organisms can be cultivated and pollution by other microorganisms can be prevented is mainly performed.
Korean Patent No. 1319241 discloses a photobioreactor using solar light. This photobioreactor concentrates sunlight and feeds it to a flat plate reactor along an optical fiber installed between a condensing panel and a reactor to grow algae. It uses solar light as a light source, so it is inexpensive and uses a large amount of optical fiber It is possible to uniformly supply sunlight to the interior of the reactor, thereby increasing the light irradiation efficiency. However, the optical fiber has a disadvantage in that it is difficult to efficiently cultivate the optical fiber due to its high optical transmittance.
Korean Patent No. 0986732 discloses a photobioreactor having a cylindrical shape. This reactor maximizes the efficiency of the photobioreactor by using a cylindrical stacked light source, but it has a disadvantage in that the type of the light source is limited and the volume occupied in the reactor becomes larger as the light source is stacked, thereby decreasing the efficiency.
As a result of intensive efforts to solve the above problems, the inventors of the present invention have found that the inclusion of light scattering particles or a pall ring reflecting light on a medium in a reactor allows scattering of incident light, And the present invention was completed.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a photobioreactor having a light source at a central portion and containing light scattering particles or a pallet ring in the medium, thereby increasing the light efficiency.
In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a reactor comprising a cylindrical reactor; A light source located at the center of the reactor; A gas inlet for supplying a gas to the lower portion of the reactor; And a gas outlet provided at an upper portion of the reactor for discharging gas.
The present invention also provides a method for producing a photobioreactor, comprising the steps of: (a) mixing a medium with light scattering particles or a pallet ring in a photobioreactor; And (b) supplying a gas to the reactor to flow the light scattering particles or the pallet ring and the medium, and supplying light from the light source to propagate the photosynthetic self-feeding organism. to provide.
The present invention also relates to a reactor comprising: a cylindrical reactor; A light source located at the center of the reactor; A gas inlet for supplying a gas to the lower portion of the reactor; A gas outlet installed at an upper portion of the reactor to discharge a gas; A medium flowing up and down by the gas supplied by the gas supply device; And a light scattering particle or a pallet mixed with the medium to scatter light incident from the light source.
The photobioreactor according to the present invention is excellent in light efficiency and can cultivate a high concentration of photobioreactors and is useful for culturing efficient photosynthetic autotrophic organisms by increasing the driving convenience.
1 shows a photobioreactor according to the present invention.
2 is a result of fluid simulation of the photobioreactor according to the present invention.
3 is a flow simulation result of a photobioreactor including light scattering particles according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. In general, the nomenclature used herein is well known and commonly used in the art.
Conventional photobioreactors supply light from a light source located at one side, and other light sources or reflection devices are disposed on the other side to uniformly supply light to the inside of the reactor. However, this method has a problem that the light utilization efficiency is lowered because the light of the light source is counted to the outside, not the reactor, and the efficiency of the growth of the photosynthetic autotrophic organisms declines because the light can not be uniformly supplied to the interior.
The present inventors have proposed a method for increasing the efficiency of cultivation of photosynthetic autotrophic organisms by locating the light source at the center of the reactor to increase the efficiency and scattering the light of the light source by mixing light scattering particles or a pallet ring So that the culture efficiency of photosynthetic autotrophic organisms was improved.
Accordingly, in one aspect, the present invention provides a reactor comprising: a cylindrical reactor; A light source located at the center of the reactor; A gas inlet for supplying a gas to the lower portion of the reactor; And a gas outlet provided at an upper portion of the reactor for discharging gas.
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In the present invention, the pole ring may be formed of a polymer material or ceramic. Polling is a structure in which a plurality of partition walls are formed at the center of a porous cylinder having a porous structure and floated inside the reactor or filled in a part or all of the reactor to help the fluid mix. In the present invention, the poles float inside the reactor, and scatter the incident light while moving inside the reactor in accordance with the movement of the inlet, and mix the reactants inside the reactor. At this time, it is preferable that the poling is made in white in order to smoothly scatter the incident light.
In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of producing a photobioreactor, comprising the steps of: (a) mixing a medium and light scattering particles in a photobioreactor; And (b) supplying a gas to the reactor to flow the light scattering particles or the pallet ring and the medium, and supplying light from the light source to propagate the photosynthetic self-feeding organism .
In the present invention, the photosynthetic autotrophic organisms may be microalgae or cyanobacteria, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
The present invention, in a further aspect, relates to a reactor comprising: a cylindrical reactor; A light source located at the center of the reactor; A gas inlet for supplying a gas to the lower portion of the reactor; A gas outlet installed at an upper portion of the reactor to discharge a gas; And a light scattering particle or a pall ring mixed with a medium flowing up and down by the gas supplied by the gas supply device to scatter light incident from the light source part.
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Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to Examples. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are only for illustrating the present invention and that the scope of the present invention is not construed as being limited by these embodiments.
Experimental Example One: Flow Simulation (Flow Simulation) Experiment
The flow inside the reactor using Solidworks was simulated. The initial conditions are the same as those in Table 1 below, and the boundary conditions are the same as those in Table 2.
Temperature: 20.05 C
Velocity in X direction: 0 m / s
Velocity in Y direction: 0 m / s
Velocity in Z direction: 0 m / s
Intensity: 2.00%
Length: 0.002 m
Volume flow rate: 1.0000 l / min
Fully developed flow: No
Inlet profile: 0
Intensity: 2.00%
Length: 0.002 m
The reactor was assumed to have a height of 1 m and an inner diameter of 160 mm. As a result, as shown in FIG. 2, a vortex was naturally formed due to the optical tube inside the reactor in the flow of the fluid, and the fluid inside the reactor was smoothly mixed. Also, as shown in Fig. 3, even when the light scattering particles having the same density as the fluid were added, the mixing of the fluid was not observed.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to specific embodiments thereof, those skilled in the art will appreciate that such specific embodiments are merely preferred embodiments and that the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto will be. Accordingly, the actual scope of the present invention will be defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
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A light source located at the center of the reactor;
A gas inlet for supplying a gas to the lower portion of the reactor; And
A gas outlet installed at an upper portion of the reactor to discharge a gas;
And a photocatalytic reactor.
(a) mixing and supplying the medium with light scattering particles or a pall ring; And
(b) supplying a gas to the reactor to flow the light scattering particles or the pallet ring and the medium, and supplying light from the light source to propagate the photosynthetic self-feeding organism;
A light source located at the center of the reactor;
A gas inlet for supplying a gas to the lower portion of the reactor;
A gas outlet installed at an upper portion of the reactor to discharge a gas; And
A light scattering particle or a pall ring mixed with a medium flowing up and down by the gas supplied by the gas supply device to scatter light incident from the light source portion;
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