MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517046086 A) filed by Solarclean Fuels, Llc, Fountain Hills, U.S.A., on May 13, for 'vertical bioreactor technologies methods, systems, and processes.'

Inventor(s) include Falco, Robert, E.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments may provide photobiorcactor system such as a vertical growth enhancing mixing spectrum photobioreactor (1) including but not limited to at least one downcomer tower (22) having spiral impressions (211), an upcomer tower (21), an algae-fluid input (10), an algae downward fluid flow (25) in a downcomer tower; a gas input (18) to drive a system flow (250), a gas upward flow (20) in a upcomer tower; a carbon dioxide gas input (27) having a lower mass flow of carbon dioxide than a mass flow in an upcomer tower, a carbon dioxide gas upward flow (26) in a downcomer tower; a counterflow (230) created with the algae downward fluid flow and carbon dioxide gas upward flow; and perhaps even a collection tank (64) for dewatered algae. Each photobioreactor system may be connected to provide a plurality of photobioreactor systems of which can be automatically controlled."

The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 16, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/035246.

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