Facilities
University of Kansas School of Engineering: Environmental Engineering Multi-Use Innovation Laboratory
Greenhouse facility
Multi use innovation laboratory
Preparing raceway ponds for
algae inoculation in the
greenhouse facility
Sampling algae for quality
control testing
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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.
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