Comparison of Flat Photo-Bioreactors for Micro-Algae Culture Based on CFD Numerical Simulation
Scientists from China performed an experiment to compare flat photo-bioreactors for algae cultivation based on computational flow dynamics numerical simulation. Three flat photo-bioreactors were taken for the experiment, viz., ordinary double flat photo-bioreactor, multistage flat photobioreactor and multistage intake photobioreactor. Computational flow dynamics simulations were carried out.
Results showed that multistage intake photobioreactor gave the best performance in both mixing and mass transfer properties among the three types of photobioreactors.