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Located in the Measurement, Materials, and Sustainable Environment Center, The Multi-Use Innovation Lab serves as a space for projects that may ultimately reach the pilot stage, and as an additional facility to carry out alternative fuel panel research that is also the focus within the roof-top greenhouse.

 

 

A list of key research capabilities for this space are:

 

• Greenhouse with shade system, evaporative cooling, and Wadsworth environmental controller

 

• Two 1100-L raceway ponds with YSI multi-probe monitoring for physical and chemical parameters

 

• Evodos (Type 2/10) algal centrifuge that is specified to produce biomass with > 20% solids

 

• Flat panel photobioreactors (15-L) with controlled CO2 injection

 

• 19 cylinder photobioreactors with controlled CO2 injection

 

• LICOR light meter

 

• UV-visible light spectrophotometer

 

• PARR high-pressure, high-temperature reactor inside a floor-mounted, ventilated enclosure

 

• Reactor vessels ranging from 30 mL to 450 mL. The smaller vessels are able to operate up to 600º C (with varying ramp rates) and pressures up to 4500 psi, while the larger vessel can operate up to 350º C and 2500 psi.