Biofilm photobioreactor system and method of use

US8691538B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Algenol Biofuels Switzerland GmbH · CH

Inventors

• Benjamin Moll · Davis, US
• Benjamin A. McCool · Annandale, US
• William Drake · Fort Myers, US
• William Porubsky · Fort Myers, US
• Ryan P. Adams · Somerville, US
• Heike Enke · Berlin, DE
• Juliane Metzner · Berlin, DE
• Karola Knuth · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 2012
• Grant date: Apr 8, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E50/30
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Flat panel biofilm photobioreactor systems with a photosynthetic, autofermentative microorganism that forms a biofilm and methods for using the same to make metabolic intermediate compound(s) through photosynthesis and to convert metabolic intermediate compound(s) into chemical product(s) such as a biofuel or a feedstock through autofermentation.