AlgoSolis

AlgoSolis infrastructure

• 1500m² of biomass production area (350m² in thermoregulated greenhouse) with over 20 independent lines of cultivation
• Downstream processing R&D unit (240m²)
• Rooms for microalgae pre-culture and laboratory for analysis (100m²)

AlgoSolis main features

• 20 lines of biomass production equipped with various PBR technologies including newly patented technologies (CNRS-GEPEA)
• Fully equipped downstream processing R&D unit (Evodos harvesting processes, membrane filtration, processes for cell disruption and metabolites extraction/fractioning)
• All production-downstream processing units can be used individually or be connected to set a complete exploitation process
• Global supervision and automation of the complete facility
• Possibility of medium recycling implantation

AlgoSolis offers a complete infrastructure including culture and analysis rooms, biomass production areas (thermo-regulated greenhouse, outdoor area), downstream processing unit for algal biomass harvesting and biorefining. The infrastructure of AlgoSolis allows the individual development of units to validate and optimize their performance, or the study their integration into an overall process from the production of biomass to the extraction of molecules of interest.

AlgoSolis enables (1) investigations in representative conditions of industrial applications of microalgae (outdoor production, large-scale, waste treatments) and (2) integration of technological bricks defining an industrial exploitation of microalgae. AlgoSolis integrates state-of-the-art and breakthrough technologies for microalgae culture and for algo-refinery. This includes several breakthrough processes like intensified photobioreactors and wet-biomass biorefining, strains of industrial interest, optimizes procedures for culture media recycling and microalgae culture on industrial effluent.

Biobased industry
Marine resources
Microalgae exploitation