Facilities

A. MSU pilot anaerobic dgiestion and algal cultivation facility

The MSU pilot anaerobic digestion/algal cutlivation facility is located next to MSU dairy farm. The facility inclues a 250,000 gallon plug-flow anaerobic digester, a 270 x 50 x 3' (L x W x D) raceway algal cultivation pond, a solar-biopower unit on the south MSU campus.

B. The Bioenergy/Bioproducts lab

The Bionergy/Bioproducts lab at the Department of Biosystems and Agricutlural Engineering is located at Room 3, Farrall hall. Major equipments in the labratory are listed as follow.

1. New Brunswick Scientific Bioflo 110 5 Liters fermentors

2. 2 L Parr thermal reactor

3. Shimadzu UV1800 spectrophotometer

4. Shimadzu Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)

5. Shimadzu Gas Chromatography

6. Shimadzu HPLC with RI and PDA detectors

7. Fiber analyzer

8. Eppendorf PCR Mastercycler® pro Thermal Cyclers

9. Bio-rad qPCR

10. Bio-Rad vertical electrophoresis system

11. UVP DigiDoc-It™ Imaging System

12. Shakers and incubators

Eppendorf Mastercycler® pro Thermal Cyclers & Bio-rad electriphoresis	UVP DigiDoc-It™ Imaging System
Incubators and Shakers	Thermo MaxQ Shakers
Lab-scale photobioreactor set 1	Lab-scale photobioreactor set 2
Steam treatment unit with Parr reactor