Bioenergy research projects currently involving Aston University include the £6.2m Supergen bioenergy project. Managed by Aston, it involves 14 research organisations and nine companies delivering a UK centre of excellence in bioenergy and biofuels research and development. Aston is also working with Severn Trent Water to transform sewage sludge into energy, and Johnson Matthey to […]

A two-day Algae World Summit that began on May 17 at the Del Mar Hilton is more of the same, with sessions on “real world” experiences in growing algae, “meeting the challenges” of growing algae in industrial quantities, and practical considerations in project development. Jose Olivares outlined some of these technical issues for me when […]

According to a report in The Nikkei, Toyota will team up with Chuo University and Japan’s Agriculture Ministry to begin a research project with the aim to produce biofuel from the algae Pseudochoricystis. One of Toyota’s suppliers – Denso – has actually been working on biofuels derived from this form of algae for several years. […]

OriginOil, Inc. announced today that it recently launched MAX ONE, its first mobile algae extraction laboratory. A private party of investors and supporters celebrated the unveiling at the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles. The trailer-based system will visit algae producing companies in the US to demonstrate how OriginOil’s Single Step Extraction(TM) process can help them […]

Five students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created an algae growth contraption from old computer parts and other waste materials that they say can help replace fossil fuels and bring algae growth for biofuel production down to the household level. Bio-Grow was assembled with the side panels of an Apple G4 CPU […]

Craig Venter, the US genomics pioneer, announced last night that scientists at his laboratories in Maryland and California had succeeded in their 15-year project to make the world’s first “synthetic cells” – bacteria called Mycoplasma mycoides . “We have passed through a critical psychological barrier,” Dr Venter told the Financial Times. “It has changed my […]

Press Release: Learn about growing, harvesting and extraction Co-Sponsored by National Algae Association and BARD HOLDING June 17, 2010 BARD Holding 1 Ben Fairless Drive, Fairless Hills, PA 19030 Algae oil is renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2.  Come learn about algae oil as a potential feedstock to help biodiesel producers become self-sustainable.  It’s one solution […]

Here are 5 issues with Algae fuels that are covered in the book on jatropha and algae as fuel sources by Robert Rapier. 1. The present cost of algae production from open ponds is too high to make fuel production economically viable. 2. Photobioreactors (PBRs) are too expensive. 3. The energy inputs into the algae […]

Press Release With an eye toward young talent leading the future of algaebioenergy development, the National Algae Association, in cooperation with Algae Industry Magazine, announces the launch of the Algae Innovation Awards, a scholarship competition for innovative university microbiology and engineering students as well as for high school science students. Scholarships will be awarded for […]

Press Release You can submit an abstract for oral presentation at the “First Canada-US Symposium on Microalgae for Bioenergy and Other Applications” The purpose of this symposium is to bring together expertise from industry, government and academic research and present leading edge technologies and ideas around this very important and relevant topic. The registration is […]

Beckons Industries Ltd has entered into agreement with Water and Oil Technologies Inc, USA. In a statement issued on Tuesday said both the companies plan to commercilise BIL technology of photobioreactor for algae growing and WOT technology of harvesting and downstream processing of algae products such as oil, protein, carbohydrates and antioxi dants. These projects […]

Valero Energy Corporation, one of the largest US oil refiners, took another step into the alternative fuel space by forming a joint venture with algae-to-fuel company Algenol Biofuels Inc. The companies did not disclose how much Valero will invest in the algae technology. They said they will explore combining Algenol’s Direct to Ethanol® technology with […]

Nelson-based biofuels entrepreneur Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation says it has picked up another role in a multi-million dollar American project involving the United States government’s interest in algae-based fuels. Aquaflow will collaborate, as a co-funding partner, with the United States Gas Technology Institute (GTI) on an advanced biomass conversion technology programme worth $US3.1 million ($NZ4.2m), which […]

This vertical hybrid aircraft is fuelled by algae bio-fuel harvested from the floating organic ocean farms powered by seaweed with a combination of inflatable photovoltaic cells and wind propellers utilized as a supplementary renewable energy source. The algae farm is also an organic purifying station taking in carbon dioxide delivered by ships and processed by […]

According to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist, algae could be put to use right away to remove nitrogen and phosphorus in livestock manure runoff. That could give resource managers a new eco-friendly option for reducing the level of agricultural  pollutants that contaminate water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Microbiologist Walter Mulbry works at the […]