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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2015
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (US);
David W. Ordway, Poway, CA (US);
David A. Hazlebeck, El Cajon, CA (US);
GENERAL ATOMICS, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for creating a useful carbon-enriched media in a reactor which will assimilate carbon into an algae biomass, requires measuring a respective carbon concentration of the media, C, as it enters, and as it leaves the reactor. Operationally, desired carbon concentration values are preset, C, and are provided along with values obtained for Cas input to a system controller. Respective differentials between Cand Cat the reactor's input and output ports are determined by the controller and are used to control a volumetric fluid flow rate of the media through the reactor. Specifically, the controller establishes a volumetric fluid flow rate of the media as it is passed through an absorber where the media is carbon-enriched by interaction with combustion gases from an external source (e.g. a power plant).