You are at: Oilgae Blog. Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics. Algenol grows algae in “bioreactors,” troughs covered with flexible […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The tripartite BioMara bio-marine energy research project will be spearheaded by marine scientists based in Ireland, the North and Scotland.They will investigate on converting seaweed and other plant algae into fuel as an alternative to the use of food crops to produce bio-fuels. Addressing stakeholders at the Northern Ireland Science […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Professor Emeritus Milagros R. Martinez-Goss of the University of the Philippines Los Baños has got the approval of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) – Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Resources Research and Development (PCAMRD) for funding her proposal to mass cultivate freshwater microalgae for biodiesel feedstock. With […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. A team of chemists at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., is testing alternative fuel formulas using items such as algae, weeds, animal fats and liquefied coal. Their goal is to create an alternative version of today’s jet fuel, known as JP-5, which could be easily transported and burned by […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The combined global biodiesel and ethanol markets will reach $247 billion in sales by 2020, up from $76 billion in 2010, Pike Research of Boulder said Monday. Pike Research said it anticipates three key waves of biodiesel development over the next several years: — Fuels based on waste greases will […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Solazyme, Inc., received the San Francisco Business Times’ Bay Area Green Business Award for Renewable Energy – Fuels. The awards, which were presented at a ceremony June 11, recognize the Bay Area’s most promising clean technology companies.  A panel of Bay Area esteemed experts in clean technology judged more than […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Chemical companies and other industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions are eligible for $1.3 billion in grants for large-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration projects under a Department of Energy program announced on June 8. Industrial sources generate some 19% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, but DOE funding support […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Welsh Assembly Government (press release) is supporting a trial looking at how to use algae to feed off liquid digestate by-products from anaerobic digestion plants. It has given a £50,000 grant to community group Merlin Bio-developments to investigate the potential to further reduce the carbon footprint of AD facilities […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Japanese and Indian space agencies have announced that they are to collaborate on a new project to research photosynthesis in space.  Noriaki Ishioka, a professor from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), told AFP that JAXA and the Indian Space Research Organisation will be sending an unmanned satellite into […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. For one month starting June 10, the regular gasoline purchased at a Shell service station in Ottawa, Ontario will contain 10% cellulosic ethanol. The biofuel is produced locally from non-food raw materials at Iogen Energy Corporation’s demonstration plant, using advanced conversion processes. Iogen(www.iogen.ca.) and Shell(http://www.shell.com) are partners in the plant, […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. An article in Biodiesel magazine lists all recent happenings in biodiesel industry in its july 2009 issue. Read Here:”Business Briefs: Companies, Organizations & People in the News“ By the way, have you subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?; How about joining the Oilgae mailing list?; and our forum to discuss on […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The European Commission showed its support for the European Algae Biomass Association (EABA) by sending Peter Vis, Member of Cabinet of Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Energy, to the launch on 4 June. He was not the only representative of an international body and was joined by members of the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release: 19th Annual EPAC Conference in Bozeman, MT The 19th Annual Ethanol Producers and Consumers (EPAC) Conference, Fuel, Food and the Future, will be held at the the Best Western Grantree Inn, Bozeman, Montana June 29 and 30, 2009. This educational conference will allow attendees to network with and […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. 15 year old Javier Fernández-Han invented a truly innovative solution to meeting the basic needs of many of the world’s poor, and won Ashoka’s Invent Your World Challenge with his algae energy system, called VERSATILE. His holistic approach uses an efficient, modular system to meet multiple needs.The basis of Javier’s […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Last month, the Reynolds Town Council approved a plan by Indianapolis-based algaewheel Inc. to build a special system using algae to process the town’s wastewater. After passing through a series of filters, wastewater will flow through the wheels. The algae, simple organisms that use photosynthesis to turn sunlight into energy, […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Solazyme said it recently raised $57 million to enable its march toward commercializing its technology.New investors include VantagePoint Partners and undisclosed companies that do business in the markets Solazyme is targeting, Solzyme said. Solazyme is not only developing fuels for the transportation market, from cars to jets, it also wants […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Texas researchers are working to transform algae fuel into a commercially competitive process. Both Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin are deeply involved in algae research, and private corporations in Texas also are exploring its potential. Texas A&M is producing oil-rich algae at a test facility just […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Here is yet another research effort for Algae Co2 Sequestration. Environment Research Web has published an interesting blog entitled “Algebra of Algae to Biodiesel“. This article compares the algae biodiesel production and CO2 emmision in US. By the way, have you subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?; How about joining the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release: NAA Forming Buying Consortium to help drive down algae production costs The algae production industry is moving at a fast pace and everyone is sensitive about lowering algae production costs. Buying power is one of the keys to the success of our industry. NAA is building a Buying […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined San Diego-based GreenHouse on the steps of the State Capitol as E-Fuel Corp. unveiled the final production model of the revolutionary E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable micro-refinery fuel system for consumer use. The State of California’s Department of General Services is also exploring a pilot program […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press release: “Algae: The Race for New Oil” National Algae Association Mid-South Chapter announces that Ronald Pate of Sandia Labs will speak at “Algae: The Race for New Oil” workshop in Orlando, Florida. The NAA Mid-South Chapter is pleased to announce that Ronald Pate of Sandia National Laboratories will speak in […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Algae has been cultivated primarily as a source of biofuel but Renewed World Energies (RWE) is taking it one step further. The company wants to clean up power plant and industrial plant emissions using algae and then have the algae turn the CO2 captured to generate both an oil and […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Professor Mark Edwards of the Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness at Arizona State University won “top science book of the year” award for his work about how algae can revolutionize food and fuel. The 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards reviewed over 4,600 books and selected Green Algae Strategy for the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release: ND Ag Commissioner to Give Keynote Address at EERC Biomass Workshop The Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota announced today that the preliminary program for the upcoming Biomass ’09: Power, Fuels, and Chemicals Workshop is now available. Doug Goehring, North Dakota agriculture commissioner, […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Research into algae-made biofuels has been active in the last 3 to 5 years, but it would take another 10 to 15 years to turn laboratory experiments into industrial-scale production, said Raffaello Garofalo, executive director of the European Algae Biomass Association. Making biodiesel from algae costs at least 10 to […]