Bioreactor (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Bioreactor

Caption

For the human digestion study, algae were grown in a large stainless steel fermentation tank, similar to fermentation tanks seen at beer breweries. A smaller bench-top fermentation tank, or bioreactor, is pictured.

Credit

Frank Fields, UC San Diego

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Must be used in conjunction with algae and digestion study.

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