Photobioreactor with improved supply of light by surface enlargement, wavelength shifter bars or light transport

US6509188B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. · DE

Inventors

• Walter Trosch · Stuttgart, DE
• Ulrike Schmid-Staiger · Stuttgart, DE
• Armin Zastrow · Glückstadt, DE
• Alexander Retze · Glückstadt, DE
• Franz Brucker · Glückstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2001
• Grant date: Jan 21, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S47/06
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A photobioreactor is described that has a reactor chamber that is made of light-transparent material and that has an increased surface area.