Energy from floating algae ponds
Jonathan Trent describes OMEGA- Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing
Algae, a module built offshore, which will be used to grow microalgae from waste
water. Microalgae are a single-celled organism that can produce biofuels in mass
production, which not compete with water, fertilizer or land. Photobioreactors
or PBR is a tubular, flexible and floating structure made from inexpensive plastic
will be used to circulate waste water and a source of CO2. Microalgae grow by
getting nutrients from wastewater, sunlight, consume CO2 and produce O2.
Microalgae are biodegradable. With the environment, it helps seaweeds and other
organism growths, enhance marine habitat and increase biodiversity due to
surfaces provided by the modules. Research is ongoing to study the biology of the
system; the way algae grew; what eats the algae and what kills the algae, including
engineering on how to build and run the system due to its enormous scale.
10 Words:
Words
Part of
speech
Definition
Example
1
Module
Noun
1. Each of a set of standardized parts or
independent units that can be used to construct
a more complex structure, such as an item of
furniture or a building.
2. A detachable self-contained unit of a
spacecraft.
Ships are now built in
modules
rather
than
building in a whole from the
base up
2
Organism
Noun
The heart's contribution to
the maintenance of the
human organism
3
Inexpensive
Adjective
1. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life
form
2. The material structure of an organism.
3. A system or organization consisting of
interdependent parts, compared to a living being
Not costing a great deal; cheap.
4
Tubular
Adjective
1. Long, round, and hollow like a tube
Noun
1. Short for tubular tires
2. Oil-drilling equipment made from tubes
1. The natural home or environment of an
animal, plant, or other organism.
1. The outside part, or uppermost layer of
something
2.A Continuous set of points that has length and
breadth but no thickness
5
Habitat
Noun
6
Surfaces
Noun
Verb
7
Biodiversity
Noun
8
Circulate
Verb
9
Enormous
Adjective
10
Scale
Noun
1. Rise or come up to the surface of the water or
the ground
2. Provide (something, especially a road) with a
particular surface
The variety of plant and animal life in the world
or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is
usually considered to be important and desirable
1. Move continuously or freely through a closed
system or area.
2. Pass from place to place or person to person.
Very large in size, quantity, or extent.
1. Each of the small, thin horny or bony plates
protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically
overlapping one another.
2. Something resembling a fish scale in
appearance or function, in particular
That was a simple and
inexpensive solution.
A straw is tubular
Massive
tree
cutting
destroys monkey’s habitat.
We must ensure it has a
clean surface before start
painting.
Natural biodiversity must be
preserved
for
future
generations.
Local media is one of the
method used to circulate the
news.
The father died and left
behind enormous sums of
money.
The flesh of fish is protected
by the scales.
3. Either pan or tray of a balance
4. An instrument or machine for weighing
Verb
Noun
(measure)
1. Remove scale or scales from
2. (Especially of the skin) form scales
1. A set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to
measure or compare the level of something
2. The relation between the real size of
something and its size on a map, model, or
diagram