Anybody had any experience with making a bubble lift. I have been trying to get a bubble lift working to move the algae medium from the tank into the reactor, a lift of approximately 1.5meters.
I have tried a couple of different venturi designs from a crowd called blovac but can't get the stuff to lift more than a few inches.
Ample air going into the unit as I used an air blower rated at 3000 litres a minute at 17.5 kpa.
Going to try and make the GL style of home made venturi ( see biodiesel infopop) but if that fails I will need to go to a pump. Probably have to be a peristaltic pump to avoid damaging the soft walled dunaliella I will be using.
Any thoughts?
I have tried a couple of different venturi designs from a crowd called blovac but can't get the stuff to lift more than a few inches.
Ample air going into the unit as I used an air blower rated at 3000 litres a minute at 17.5 kpa.
Going to try and make the GL style of home made venturi ( see biodiesel infopop) but if that fails I will need to go to a pump. Probably have to be a peristaltic pump to avoid damaging the soft walled dunaliella I will be using.
Any thoughts?
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