Process and apparatus for growing mycelium sheets
AssigneeMme Houdstermaatschappij B.V.
InventorGijsbertus Martinus Rademakers
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Abstract
Process for growing mycelium sheets. First, a substrate mixture is prepared in a mixer. Then the substrate mixture is applied as substrate layers on shelves of a rack in a cultivation room. The cultivation room is then closed and subsequently the substrate is pasteurized by injecting a pasteurizing medium, such as steam, into the closed cultivation room. In a next step, the substrate mixture is cooled and subsequently inoculated. During a growing step mycelium is allowed to grow on the inoculated substrate mixture. In a next harvesting step, the mycelium is separated from the substrate.
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A process for growing mycelium sheets in a cultivation room with an access port of the cultivation room closed during a growing step to control environmental conditions within the cultivation room so as to promote mycelium growth on top of a substrate without forming fruiting bodies, the process comprising:
- a substrate mixture is prepared in a mixer;
- the substrate mixture is then applied as separate substrate layers on shelves, the shelves being vertically spaced apart on a rack with space between shelves to allow access to each substrate layer;
- the rack is located in a cultivation room;
- in a next step, the access port of the cultivation room is closed with the shelves on the rack in the cultivation room so as to isolate an interior of the cultivation room from an environment outside the cultivation room, and subsequently the substrate mixture is pasteurized by injecting a pasteurizing medium into the interior of the closed cultivation room;
- in a next step following pasteurization, the substrate mixture of each substrate layer is cooled and subsequently each substrate layer on each shelf of the rack of shelves is inoculated;
- during a growing step the cultivation room is closed and mycelium is allowed to grow on the inoculated substrate mixture in the cultivation room where environmental conditions in the interior of the closed cultivation room are adjusted to promote mycelium growth on tops of the substrate layers on the shelves of the rack without fruiting bodies;
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- in a next harvesting step, the mycelium is separated from the substrate mixture.
A process for growing mycelium sheets in a cultivation room with an access port of the cultivation room closed during a growing step to control environmental conditions within the cultivation room so as to promote mycelium growth on top of a substrate without forming fruiting bodies, the process comprising:
- a substrate mixture is applied as separate substrate layers on shelves, the shelves being vertically spaced apart on a rack with space between shelves to allow access to each substrate layer;
- the rack is located in a cultivation room having walls defining closable interior space;
- in a next step, the interior space is closed via the access so as to isolate the interior space of the cultivation room from an environment outside the cultivation room, and subsequently the substrate mixture is pasteurized on the shelves on the rack by injecting a pasteurizing medium into the closed interior space;
- in a next step following pasteurization, the substrate mixture of each substrate layer is cooled and each substrate layer on each shelf of the rack of shelves is subsequently inoculated;
- during a growing step with the cultivation room is closed environmental conditions are adjusted within the closed interior space so as to grow mycelium without fruiting bodies on the inoculated substrate mixture on the shelves on the rack in the closed interior space;
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- in a next harvesting step, the mycelium is separated from the substrate mixture.
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