Team:SJTU-BioX-Shanghai/Human Practice/Seperation
Cell-water separation is the key of our process flow. The goal is to find a cheap, fast and most importantly moderate way that will not cause cell corruption. In this part, we combine HP work with some lab experiments in order to achieve the final goal.
Single use
Idea collecting
Right now, our algae is engineered to be used only one time.
Since all of our team members didn’t have experience in that area. We had to consult with someone familiar with this process.
In China, algae bloom is a common problem appears in lake and river. Part of the improving method is to salve the algae and concentrate its biomass for further usage. This involves cell-water separation.
Thus, we contact an expert in that area, Prof. Shengbin He from the School of Environmental Science & Engineering in our university. In our conversation, he motioned several ways of separation including sedimentation, floatation, centrifuging and membrane. However,only sedimentation and floatation might satisfy our goal.We took the idea back home and did some further studies on those two method especially.
