Patent ID: 9534194
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: C12M,C12P,G06Q

Claim:
1. An airlift-loop reactor vessel, comprising: (a) one or more liquid inlets and one or more liquid outlets; (b) one or more gas inlets at the bottom, connected with a source of carbon dioxide, and one or more gas outlets at the top of the vessel; (c) vertically interspaced rectangular double glass plates which are at least partially submerged in the reactor liquid, the double glass plates having a light-scattering layer in between and having a flat vertical side being exposed to a light source, wherein pairs of the double glass plates are mounted in parallel at a distance of between 10 and 200 mm, the distance being provided by glass strips having essentially the same length as the rectangular double glass plates and being arranged along the long sides of the double glass plates; and wherein part of the spaces between the double glass plates is arranged vertically above the gas inlets thus providing for vertical circulation of reactor liquid between the double glass plates.