Help a student find software for modelling (photo)bio-reactors
If you know of software that meets the needs of Karl R. Haxthausen, an Environmental engineering student at DTU, please contact him.
I am working on my bachelors project, micro algae growth in bio-reactors for coupled biomass production and waste-water treatment (nutrient removal). In previous projects, crude modelling has been done using Matlab code, or even Excel, and to me, the need of a more purpose built (and perhaps more well designed) solution is warranted. The scope of my current projects is to investigate biomass yield under dynamic temperature and light intensity (fixed fluctuation). The potential of the software could however go beyond this, as there is much focus on the subject of optimizing algae growth for resource gain or water treatment mainly.
The functions of the software can include (but is not limited to), modelling biomass growth under a series of user specified conditions including mainly: pH, temperature, light intensity, nutrient concentrations, reactor type, flow/flux, turbulence, O2 & CO2 concentrations.
This can to some degree be achieved in existing software, such as Aquasim, the purpose of this unusual request is to find out whether or not there is already a piece of software that is tailored to this purpose.
If not, I shall try my luck with matlab, but if anything turns up, my hope is to focus my bachelors project on further the use of said software, and test it against laboratory data in order to determine its precision, in order to promote it for further use in the department.