Facilities
AlgaePARC is a pilot facility for research on production and biorefinery of microalgae. The following systems/equipment are used at AlgePARC.
Outdoors
- Horizontal tubular systems
- Vertical stacked horizontal tubular systems
- Raceway pond
- Flat panel systems (F&M systems, TD studio)
In greenhouse
- LGem vertical stacked horizontal tubular system
- Airlift horizontal tubular system
- Horizontal tubular system
- Centrifuges (GEA Westfalia stacked disk & Evodos)
- Bead mill (WAB)
- 3-phase separator (GEA Westfalia)
Laboratory equipment
- Labscale photobioreactors: 20 Algaemist flat panel systems (400 mL), 7 Flat panel systems (1.8 L), 4 Algaegerm flat panel systems (20 L)
- Analytical equipment (e.g. FPLC, UHPLC’s, GC’s, flow cytometer, FACS, fluorescence microscope and nutrient analyser)
- DasGip CellFerm Pro system (8 bioreactors)
- Batch, fed batch and perfusion (Biosep)
- Off gas mass spec
- MFA/metabolic modelling
- YSI analyzer for glucose & lactate
- BD Accuri flow cytometer & Sony cell sorter (FACS)
- Agilent UPLC for titer, glycosylation, nutrient profiling and organic acids. Shimadzu UPLC for pigments, proteins (SEC applications)
- TOC/TN analyser
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