No, that’s not what it is. In fact, this is the world’s largest industrial fermenter. This is the ICI air lift fermenter first operated in 1979 in Billingham, U.K., featured on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute site. I’m not sure exactly what this was used for.
RPI explains about the limits of fermenter size: [...]
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