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Re:Launch HN: Phase Biolabs (YC W22) – Converting CO2 to Car... by alexose on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:15PM (#30557480)
This is fantastic! I'd never considered this pathway for CCUS, but it sounds promising. Biology has evolved some pretty interesting solutions for low-energy CO2 utilization :)

I have tons of questions, but my first is: How do you measure the products that come out of your bioreactor?

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Re:Launch HN: Phase Biolabs (YC W22) – Converting CO2 to Car... by DavidPBL on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:22PM (#30557577)
We take a small sample out the bioreactor (1-2 milliliters) and run it through HPLC (high pressure liquid chromatography). This is manual and labour intensive. There are newer techniques like raman spectroscopy which measure products in real time.
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