DEVICE FOR CULTIVATING ALGAE AND/OR MICROORGANISMS FOR TREATING AN EFFLUENT, AND BIOLOGICAL FRONTAGE

摘要

The invention relates to a device for processing effluents and/or, for example, making a building frontage capable of producing biochemical primary energy obtained by photosynthesis. The invention more particularly relates to a device that includes: a container for cultivating algae and/or microorganisms in an aqueous medium; supply means for the algae and/or microorganism culture; means for injecting an effluent into said algae and/or microorganisms, said effluent coming from a building; means for adjusting the temperature of the algae and/or microorganism culture; effluent recovery means for recovering the effluent from a building and for injecting the same into the algae and/or microorganism culture; and optionally a lighting system for promoting the growth of the algae and/or microorganism culture. The device of the invention can be used for producing biofuel, organic molecules, chemical compounds and proteins. The biofuel thus obtained may consist of oleaginous biomass, for example, which can directly be used in a thermal power plant or be converted by pyrolysis into coal or biopetroleum. The present invention also makes it possible to implement a new biological frontage and biological reactors integrated in the frontages of modern or old buildings under construction or already existing.