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Algenol is working on making ethanol from algae in photobioreactors connected to power plants. Like with all types of biofuels, the most important question with algae-ethanol has always been: Is it really greener than fossil fuels? And if so, how much? A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech tried to answer that question by doing [...]
Aurora Algae, one of the leading algae biofuel companies has expanded its operations to Perth, Australia. The company has opened its new Regional Headquarters for overseeing the construction as well as the operation of its first facility on a commercial-scale in Northwest Australia. The inauguration of the company’s Perth office along with the ramping up [...]
Shell is seeking to build a facility for the purpose of creating biodiesel from algae in two years’ time, pursuant to yesterday’s launch of a joint venture to start a research project in Hawaii. Starting at the beginning with a small facility in partnership with Hawaii based Biopetroleum, Shell will soon move on to large [...]
An elite scientific team drawn from leading research institutions in the UK, are progressing well in a bid to find a successful formula to create low-cost biofuel in vast quantities. It hopes to develop a system to cultivate and process 70 billion litres of algae biofuel a year, cost effectively and sustainably by 2030. This will [...]
Beckons Industries, based in Punjab, was in the limelight a few months back for starting itself as an algae fuel company, has been mostly in the shadows ever since. However, this news excerpt from the Hindu on the 13th of this month adds to its wall of progress. The excerpt reads: BSE-listed Beckons Industries, engaged [...]
PRESS RELEASE Industry leader MBD Energy purchases Evodos algae harvesting systems Loosdrecht, The Netherlands, 10 September 2010 – Evodos B.V., the developer and producer of ‘high concentration / no chemical’ centrifugal systems, today announced that industry leader MBD Energy Limited has defined the Evodos algae harvesting centrifuges as key technology. MBD Energy has purchased a [...]
A bubble-maker that looks like the flux capacitor from the Back to the Future films won a £250,000 prize from the Royal Society for its ability to transform the cost and effectiveness of growing algae for biofuel, treating sewage and cooling computers. The Y-shaped device delivers tiny but perfectly formed bubbles by mimicking the way children [...]
Kenney, along with undergraduate students Timothy Harvey, Elliot DeVries and Mark Schnitzer, and graduate student Saeidreza Shiftehfar was focused on finding a way to be green, and ended up winning second place in the International Electronic Waste Competition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with their unique design of using electronic waste as a [...]
CABC (Consortium for Algal Biofuels Commercialization), SABC (Sustainable Algal Biofuels Consortium), and Cellana, LLC Consortium just received a large grant of twenty four million dollars from the federal government in algae fuel research. Each group has been designated specific tasks to tackle the obstacles laid forth by algae’s ability to yield energy. Investigating new ways [...]
Press release: LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY AND FT. COLLINS, CO, USA — September 22, 2010 — BASF SE and Solix Biofuels, Inc. today announced that they have signed an agreement to investigate the use of algae to produce certain chemicals for BASF. Solix is a leading developer of algae cultivation technology systems and will test multiple algae [...]
Press Release: South San Francisco – October 7, 2010 – Solazyme, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company producing renewable oils and bioproducts using microalgae, has signed its third development agreement with Ecopetrol (EC, NYSE), the largest company in Colombia and one of the four major oil companies in Latin America, to analyze manufacturing viability of algae-based [...]
Would economical petrol production be possible from algae? Taking into account the recent developments in algal biotechnology, it is possible to achieve this feat well witjin the next 10-15 years. The current cost of algal biofuel production is three times that of oil and two times that of rapeseed oil. The cost of producing biodiesel [...]
The sunny state of Arizona is one of the most suitable regions in the world for algae biomass production. Proponents hope that algae, which can contain up to 60 percent oil, can someday squeeze out a petroleum substitute that could be produced at a price low enough to compete with natural gas. But first, researchers [...]
Large scale cultivation of algae might be carried out near airports to fuel airlines in an attemopt to find green fuels for aviation. Industry giants including British Airways and Airbus are supporting a project at the UK’s Cranfield University to investigate ways of harvesting algae for jet fuel in commercial quantities. British Airways announced earlier this [...]
Compact Contractors for America (CCA), a company based in Utah sees dry processed algal biofuel as a serious contender for JP-8 replacement in military aircraft engines and aero-derivative gas turbine power systems. The company’s president is Robert Fulton (a descendent of the Robert Fulton who invented the steamboat). CCA’s process takes dilute algae slurries, with [...]
We’re getting close to the much awaited 3rd Algae World Asia meet in Singapore. With just a week left for the D-day, I presume the algae world would be busy finalising its plans to land in Singapore. In conjunction with the 3rd Algae World Asia, there is a launch of the Algae World 2010 Industry Survey [...]
The first fair-conference in Italy dedicated to technologies and industrial applications of algae culture is scheduled on the 26-28th of October at Fieramilanocity. The algae fuel and by-products industry which is expected to undergo important changes has enormous economic development potential. This event in Italy is dedicated to the technologies and industrial applications of algae. [...]
ALGAE EUROPE Conference & Expo the first fair-conference in Italy dedicated to the technologies and industrial applications of algae culture, which will take place from 26 to 28 October 2010 at Fieramilanocity, Milan. The event has been designed especially for the manufacturers of technologies, plants and machinery for the production of algae, along with the companies [...]
Hello folks, Another interesting piece of news for those in the algae cultivation sector. Especially for those guys who work in the optimization of biomass growth and study various environmental parameters influencing algal growth (or the lack of it) and try to figure out the life-cycle patterns of the very many algal strains that show [...]
I’m glad to inform our readers that my last post on the research work going on at the Birla institute of Scientific research titled ‘Algae research at BISR’ generated much response from regular visitors of our blog. In response to their mails requesting further details, I’ve written this post with a detailed description of their [...]
I recently had the opportunity to have an interview with Dr. Krishna Mohan of the Birla Institute of Scientific Research and felt it’d be nice to share the information I gathered with the algae enthusiasts frequenting our blog. Dr. Krishna Mohan is an accomplished scientist armed with an excellent mix of Industrial (TERI), Academic (BISR) [...]
Ford joins the algae fuel race to better understand the use of biomass to produce future biofuels as part of an overall strategy to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and address climate change. and they see algae as one renewable fuel it needs to study. They planned to venture into this exciting domain [...]
Oilgae has released the latest update of its Comprehensive Oilgae Report and I thought I’d provide you with details of the report and the key takeaways from the report for your reference. As you might already know, the Comprehensive Oilgae Report is the most detailed report covering all the critical aspects of algae biofuels –strain [...]
At Oilgae, we had constituted a team about three months back and the team had been doing rigorous amount of exploration to find out the best design that can theoretically yield biofuels at the equivalent of about $3 per gallon. We have been literally burning our midnight oil to evaluate out all possible combinations and [...]
The Thai Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency Department would possibly step up to fund a research and development program on algal biofuels conducted by Kasetsart University (in freshwater microalgae) and Burapha University (marine microalgae). The biofuel produced will be tested by Bangchak Petroleum which currently delivers 95-octane petrol. With the demand for transport fuels rising [...]
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