VEGETABLE ALGA AND MICROBE PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SAME

• US 20060141615A1
• Filed: 12/23/2004
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chao-Hui Lu
• Original Assignee: Chao-Hui Lu
• Inventors: Lu, Chao-Hui
• Granted Patent: US 7,056,725 B1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 435/292.100
• CPC Class Codes: C12M 21/02 Photobioreactors culturing algae A01G33/00, A01H4/001, C12N1/12
• CPC Class Codes: C12M 23/06 Tubular C12M23/08, C12M23/16 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C12M 23/44 Multiple separable units; Modules
• CPC Class Codes: C12M 29/22 Oxygen discharge
• CPC Class Codes: C12M 31/10 by light emitting elements located inside the reactor, e.g. LED or OLED
• CPC Class Codes: C12M 41/12 of temperature controlling the temperature of chemical or physical processes B01J19/0013, heating or cooling apparatus for laboratory use B01L7/00

Abstract

A vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system and method for the same is used for vegetable algae and microbe cultivation liquid and algae seeds infused herein to circularly conduct photosynthesis and discharge oxygen; the vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system comprises a photosynthetic reaction unit, a pressure liquid infusion unit, and an oxygen discharge and regulation unit; the photosynthetic reaction unit is a light permeable pipeline; the oxygen discharge and regulation unit is assembled with an oxygen discharge can, a liquid collection can, and a regulation can for facilitating production and assembly, and many oxygen discharge points so that oxygen formed in the cultivation liquid can be quickly evaporated.

Claims

1. A vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system, comprising:

a photosynthetic reaction unit serving as a light permeable pipeline;

a pressure liquid infusion unit in which an entrance leads to an outlet of the light permeable pipeline; and

an oxygen discharge and regulation unit comprising a hollow oxygen injection and discharge device and a hollow liquid level regulation device, in which the oxygen injection and discharge device comprises an oxygen discharge can and a liquid collection can that are joined to each other, the oxygen discharge can is provided with a liquid entrance, a top exhaust, and a hollow pipe wall, the liquid entrance leads to an exit of the pressure liquid infusion unit, the top exhaust is located at a top of the oxygen discharge can, the hollow pipe wall extends from the top exhaust downwards and is correspondingly located at an inside of the liquid entrance, the liquid level regulation device comprises a regulation can leading to the liquid collection can, and an entrance of the light permeable pipeline leads to the regulation can.

2. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, wherein the photosynthetic reaction unit comprises a plurality of straight pipes and a plurality of bent pipes and the straight pipes and the bent pipes are serially connected at intervals to form an inclined 3D spiral light permeable pipeline of double rows.

3. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, wherein a topmost section of the light permeable pipeline is provided with an auxiliary mouth.

4. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, wherein the pressure liquid infusion unit is a pressure liquid infusion pump.

5. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, wherein the oxygen injection and discharge device comprises an exhaust pipe connected to the oxygen discharge can, a middle section of the oxygen discharge can is provided with a necking portion and a side exhaust, the side exhaust is located below the necking portion, a top end of the exhaust pipe pierces through the hollow pipe wall, and a bottom end of the exhaust pipe is formed with an expansion portion and is correspondingly located at an inner side of the side exhaust.

6. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, wherein the liquid level regulation device comprises an extension can and the regulation can that are joined to each other, and the extension can is provided with a pressure regulation mouth.

7. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, wherein the oxygen discharge and regulation unit comprises a communicating device connected to a bottom of the liquid collection can and a bottom of the regulation can and provided with a cleaning valve component.

8. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, further comprising a picking valve component connected between the exit of the light permeable pipeline and the entrance of the pressure liquid infusion unit.

9. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, further comprising a heating unit connected between the exit of the light permeable pipeline and the entrance of the pressure liquid infusion unit.

10. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction system according to claim 1, further comprising a sprinkling unit located above the photosynthetic reaction unit.

11. A vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction method, comprising:

(1) providing a light permeable pipeline, a heating unit, a pressure liquid infusion unit, and an oxygen discharge and regulation unit;

(2) injecting a cultivation liquid and algae seeds into the light permeable pipeline, the cultivation liquid flowing in the light permeable pipeline to make photosynthesis and then to generate oxygen, and also flowing through the heating unit towards the pressure liquid infusion unit;

(3) enabling the pressure liquid infusion unit to force the cultivation liquid to flow towards the oxygen discharge and regulation unit so that the cultivation liquid impacts the oxygen discharge and regulation unit to form a spray of water spraying round and round, thereby oxygen being discharged; and

(4) collecting the cultivation liquid in the oxygen discharge and regulation unit, and extracting the cultivation liquid to flow into the light permeable piping for further photosynthesis.

12. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction method according to claim 11, wherein at step (2) the cultivation liquid flows to and fro in the light permeable pipeline from top to bottom in sequence.

15. The vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction method according to claim 11, wherein at step (4) a picking valve component is provided and the cultivation liquid, after flowing through the light permeable pipeline, is extracted by the picking valve component.

13. (canceled)

14. A vegetable alga and microbe photosynthetic reaction method comprising:

(1) providing a light permeable pipeline, a pressure liquid infusion unit, and an oxygen discharge and regulation unit;

(2) providing a sprinkling unit that waters the light permeable pipeline and injecting a cultivation liquid and algae seeds into the light permeable pipeline, the cultivation liquid flowing in the light permeable pipeline to make photosynthesis and then to generate oxygen, and also flowing through the heating unit towards the pressure liquid infusion unit;

(3) enabling the pressure liquid infusion unit to force the cultivation liquid to flow towards the oxygen discharge and regulation unit so that the cultivation liquid impacts the oxygen discharge and regulation unit to form a spray of water spraying round and round, thereby oxygen being discharged; and

(4) collecting the cultivation liquid in the oxygen discharge and regulation unit, and extracting the cultivation liquid to flow into the light permeable piping for further photosynthesis.