Showing posts with label algae for fuel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label algae for fuel. Show all posts

Monday, October 5, 2009

Air Source

To supply air to my algae samples, I am using the aquarium pump from my Biodiesel reactor. On the pressure side of the pump I use a 10 micron fuel filter to filter out wild algae that has the potential to contaminate my lab samples.




After the filter the aquarium tubing is plumbed to a tee fitting coming from the CO2 reactor. Next, two manifolds that distribute the air and CO2 mixture to the 7 containers. Each line has an aquarium needle valve to control the amount of air going to each container.