{"id":212,"date":"2006-10-15T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2006-10-15T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T08:46:00","slug":"harvesting-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/harvesting-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting the Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick,<\/p>\n

Oil from Algae Yahoogroup
>
> A way to get around the filtration problems with picoalgae may be
froth
> separation. If you pump the algae in the growth solution into a
vertical
> column and bubble air up through column, the algae will be
captured on the
> froth and floated out the top of the column.
>
> Some researchers used it on algae and it worked – they had to alter
the PH
> to get it to work – I seem to remember they had to raise it – since
yours is
> already high, it may work as is.
>
> Salt water aquariums use these – they call them protein skimmers.
The easy
> way to build one might involve a trip to your local aquarium store
(or yard
> sale).
>
> There have been posts in the past that gave a reference to the
research.
> (But I believe the aquarium version is more technically advanced
than what
> they cobbled up.)
>
> —
> Toward freedom,
>
> Bobby Yates Emory<\/p>\n

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Patrick, Oil from Algae Yahoogroup>> A way to get around the filtration problems with picoalgae may befroth> separation. If you pump the algae in the growth solution into avertical> column and bubble air up through column, the algae will becaptured on the> froth and floated out the top of the column.>> Some researchers used it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-harvesting-froth-flotation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}