Design, fabrication, and testing of a fully automated harvesting machine for lab-lab (Periphyton algal mat)

• Main Authors: Delos Reyes, Miguel Joaquin R., Salgado, Luigi R., Sybal, May R., Lim, Niño Rigo Emil G., Augusto, Gerardo L., Ubando, Aristotle T., Culaba, Alvin B.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Harvesting machinery; Harvesting—Computer programs; Algae—Harvesting; Mechanical Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1553; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/2552/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

Lab-Lab is a benthic algal complex of periphyton organisms. Its diverse composition allows it to float and suspend in clumps on the surface of its culture source - such as ponds with brackish water. However, it possesses a delicate structure wherein if introduced with even the slightest disruption i...