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Large amounts of fuel ethanol can be produced from city wastes by local micro-breweries.
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There are now many kinds of independent small-scale local operations producing and using millions and millions of gallons of biofuels a year, growing fast.
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On the basis of calculations, a reactor shaped like a cube measuring three metres per side and filled with algae could supply a two-person household with their energy needs.
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While soya typically produces 450 litres of biodiesel pr. hectare pr. year, researchers now predict that a hectare of algae could produce more than 90,000 litres of biodiesel.
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Micro algae production as a supplier of feed supplements for livestock and farmed fish has a huge short- and medium term potential, since possible resource shortage of feed components in existing production is an immediate threat to this industry.
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Bioreactor design has been referred to as one of the main obstacles for stable, productive commercialisation of many small-scale laboratory experiments involving microorganisms like yeasts, bacteria and algae.
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CELLATOR - Novel bioreactor with improved process stability and productivity
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CELLATORTM is a new invention for bioreactor design, with patents currently pending under a range of jurisdictions internationally. The CELLATOR design achieved a 2. price in a prestiguous award issued by the University of Oslo and Oslo Innovation Centre.
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 The scale-up challenge obstructs many biotechnological processes from being successfully transformed from small-scale laboratory conditions to large-scale, high-yield industrial production. The CELLATOR bioreactor design provides a set of novel and unique properties which may bring new chances to particularly difficult processes involving growth of microorganisms like yeast, micro-algae and bacteria.
The CELLATOR reactor may also - under a broad range of conditions - make existing growth processes substantially more stable and productive than current reactors.
Computer simulations of the CELLATOR system have been performed, a range of third-party laboratory experiments are available, and financing of small-scale test reactors is the next step. Investors are welcome.
This Web site has restricted access. Password is issued by the inventor, who holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Oslo.
He has broad experience both as researcher, inventor and entrepreneur.
Updated: October 2009.
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