Algae Systems, LLC

Ben Fowler

Benjamin F Polito

Keith Thomas Richtman

Javier De Luis

Miguel Olaizola

Isaac Berzin

Miles Walker

David Fair

Kevin Lockwood

Joe Parrish

Fan Chen

Certain embodiments and aspects of the present invention relate to a photobioreactor including photobioreactor units through which a liquid medium stream and a gas stream flow. The photobioreactor units are floated on a body of water such as a pond or a lake. The liquid medium comprises at least one species of phototrophic organism therein. Certain methods of using the photobioreactor system as part of fuel generation system and/or a gas-treatment process or system at least partially remove certain undesirable pollutants from a gas stream. In certain embodiments, the photobioreactor units are formed of flexible, deformable material and are configured to provide a substantially constant thickness of liquid medium. In certain embodiments, a barrier between the photobioreactor unit and the body of water upon which the unit is floated facilitates thermal communication between the liquid medium and the body of water.

Photobioreactor systems positioned on bodies of water

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

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