Which division are you and your team entering?Main Division
Idea NameBio-Reactor Air Filtration Bio-Fuel Generator
Team Member Name(s)Chris Hunter
Idea SummaryThe Bio-Reactor Air Filter uses a simple, injection molded plastic, main housing that utilizes common hardware connections to bubble air through water containing algae. This is under an array of LED lights to provide the most possible surface area and agitation of the resulting mixture to feed all particulate pollution from the air to the algae. The air would be pumped in through low-pressure, high-volume air pumps (also known as fans) that draw air from either, or both, the outside of the building, or the inside of the building. The water being circulated through my bio-reactor would use low-cost circulation pumps that feed water through the bio-reactor and common main feed tank to provide both a means for thermal recovery (warming the incoming air from outside the building while recovering the outgoing air from inside the building) as well as a means for separation of water from the resultant biofuel in a simple gravity stratification setup where oil naturally floats on water, the water being pulled from below while the oil is pulled from above. Water would be replenished over time from whatever source was available (dehumidification systems, potable water supply, pumped from a lake, or rainwater recovery from the rooftop), and the biofuel would be siphoned off to a separate tank to either be sold or used as a fuel for heating/powering the building in a co-generation setup.
The Residential unit is ~20 inches long, ~16 inches tall, and ~2 inches wide per reactor.