ALBUS JAMES SACRA;LACAZE ALVERTO DANIEL;MURPHY KARL NICHOLAS
发明人:
ALBUS JAMES SACRA,LACAZE ALVERTO DANIEL,MURPHY KARL NICHOLAS
申请号：
US20090643170
公开号：
US8161679(B2)
申请日:
2009.12.21
申请国别(地区):
美国
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
An open ocean floating algae farm built around a ship. The ship provides propulsion power for navigation, storage capacity for materials and algae products, machinery for harvesting and processing the algae, housing for crew, and facilities for maintenance of the floating farm. The invention is also comprised of transparent tubes that circulate a broth of seawater saturated with CO2, nutrients, and algae. The circulation path flows from the ship through the tubes and back to the ship where the algae is filtered out to be processed. The fields of transparent tubes circulating the algae broth are supported by a square matrix of pressurized tubes filled with seawater. This matrix is neutrally buoyant and submerged just below the ocean surface. The internal pressure in the tubes causes the matrix to be stiff in the horizontal plane, but flexible in the vertical dimension so as to conform to long ocean waves.
