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Closed photobioreactor system for continued daily in situ production, separation, collection, and removal of ethanol from genetically enhanced photosynthetic organisms

US7682821B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Algenol Biofuels Switzerland GmbH · CH

Inventors

R. Paul Woods · Naples, US
Edward Legere · Boynton Beach, US
Benjamin Moll · Davis, US
Carlos Unamunzaga · El Puerto de Santa María, ES
Eulalia Mantecon · Teulada, ES

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 30, 2007
Grant date	Mar 23, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 30, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P20/582
WIPO fieldBiotechnology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention provides a device for growing genetically enhanced aquatic photoautotrophic organisms in a stable culture, causing said organisms to produce ethanol, and then separating, collecting, and removing the ethanol in situ.

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