Advanced LED lighting systems applied to lamps for fermenters and photobioreactors

Summary

A high-tech start-up established in Northern Italy in 2016 has developed in collaboration with research centres and universities an innovative system of LED lamps that allows to increase the quality and quantity of production of phototrophic organisms such as moss, microalgae superalgae bacteria plant and animal cells. Companies and research organisations operating in the production of fermenters and photobioreactors, are sought for commercial agreements with technical assistance.

Description

An Italian start-up company has developed a patented technology that guarantees the flexibility of LED luminaires to reproduce the ideal spectrum for better crop production taking into consideration the following two points.
One of the strategic aspects for the cultivation of phototropic organisms is the evaluation and management of the effects that light induces on them. Another aspect is the compensation of the amount of energy and the type of spectrum reproduced in the various age phases of the individual organisms.
The LED system comprises a software able to automatically adapt the spectrum to different types of cultivars without the need to replace lamps. The system is also able to optimise energy consumption and efficiency by using a quantum environmental sensor and to detect the radiant energy supplied to organisms to obtain the data that make up the ideal photobiological profile.
The system has the possibility to interact with the other technologies already present in the fermenters and photobioreactors in order to have a wider management and control of the supply of the specific "ingredients" (temperature, pH, dO 2, dCO 2, redox, antifoam, level, conductivity, weight, cell density ... ) .
Organisations operating in the production of fermenters and photobioreactors, research centres, universities, food industry are sought in order to establish a commercial agreement with technical assistance.

Stage of Development

Available for demonstration

Stage of Development Comment

Such an advanced LED lighting system has already awakened a strong interest from manufacturers of fermenters and bioreactors who will soon start using it also in the custom version and with the patented light control system

Requested Partner

Organisations working with or producing equipments for phototrophic organisms such as moss, microalgae, superalgae (sbirulina), bacteria, plant and animal cells (such as manufacturers, retailers and importers of fermenters and photobioreactors, food research centres, algae and superalgae production centres, genetic research centres, bacteriological research centres, universities, pharmaceutical industry, food industry) are sought for the adaptation and integration of this advanced lighting LED system through a commercial agreement with technical assistance