AgOil International and Georgia Alternative Fuels Partners to Produce Biodiesel from Algae
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A St. Petersburg, FL company, AgOil International, LLC, has teamed up with a Pendergrass, GA company, Georgia Alternative Fuels, LLC (GAF), to generate a start-to-finish renewable fuel production system.
By undertaking this joint effort, they can link together their processes in sequence and deliver home-grown biodiesel that meets the ASTM fuel standard. This means their biodiesel output can serve as a replacement for petroleum diesel, in whole or in part, for cars, buses, trucks, boats, tractors, and generators.
Frank Preg, AgOil CEO regards the reliability of their system as key to commercial success, noting that “Predictable harvests with consistently high yields are essential prerequisites in achieving cost effectiveness in a mass culturing system.” Proprietary components and custom devices, a result of years of research and development, have been integrated into AgOil’s system to maintain a fully controlled microbiological growth environment in large scale culture. This approach results in faster, denser cultures, higher oil yields, smaller footprint, and overcomes the shortcomings that have caused previous endeavors to fail.
The research and development phase of AgOil’s new system has been successfully completed. This includes overall system design, testing of proprietary inventions, submission of two patent applications, culture of many strains of microalgae, production of algal oil, and methods for maximization of lipid (oil) production. Their next step is to build a pilot plant to grow and process the algae, demonstrating the full process from the test tube to the fuel-tank.
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