AUTOMATIC APPARATUS FOR MEASURING GROWTH YIELD OF ALGAE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new automatic apparatus for measuring the growth yield of algae in which a plurality of samples can simply be cultured under uniform conditions for the algae, and the growth yield of each sample with time can automatically be monitored. SOLUTION: The automatic apparatus for measuring the growth yield of the algae includes: a plurality of culture vessels; circulating and transferring means for circulating and transferring the culture vessels; RGB spectrophotometric measuring means disposed on a transfer path of the circulating and transferring means; a culture light source; and ventilating means for ventilating and stirring a culture liquid in the culture vessels. The RGB spectrophotometric measuring means includes: a measuring light source for irradiating the successively transferred culture vessels with measuring light; an RGB component detecting part for detecting the measuring light which transmits through the culture vessels; and a light detection signal output part for outputting a light detection signal for each RGB component of the detected measuring light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT