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Running on Microbes - Developing Microbial Fuel Cells
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Running on Microbes - Developing Microbial Fuel Cells
From PhysOrg
Excerpts:
1. USC College’s Ken Nealson leads a multidisciplinary team of biologists, chemists, earth scientists and engineers developing a microbial fuel cell capable of powering small devices that might include tiny surveillance planes and environmental sensors.
2. Geobiologist Kenneth Nealson leads a USC College-based effort to develop bacteria-powered fuel cells that could act as remote, portable power supplies for a multitude of purposes, ranging from remote sensors to tiny insect-like surveillance drones for use in combat zones.
3. In 2006, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research awarded Nealson and his team a $4.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant to take the microbial fuel cell from great idea to usable power source.
4. The bacteria at the heart of the USC microbial fuel cell is Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, a microbe. First discovered by Nealson, in addition to generating electricity, MR-1 and its relatives can “breathe” metal, clean up toxic residue in water and even keep brass, iron, copper and aluminum corrosion free.
5. One of the most exciting things about the project is that the microbes can use such a wide variety of fuels — ordinary milk would work, but so would honey or a dead fish — to make the current flow.
6. In an experimental project a simple battery was built with two different kinds of metal in a liquid medium, electrons flowing through a wire from one metal to the other. Without MR-1, the battery runs for a few days, and then runs down. But when researchers added MR-1 to this setup, creating a bacterial battery, the power steadily increased during the 90-day experiment. Much like what happens chemically in a regular battery, bacteria in fuel cells can strip electrons from organic material and produce an electric current.
7. Thanks to the team’s use of a combination of approaches, they have already made progress in kicking up energy production.
8. With some new parts -a better membrane and assembly that houses the membrane and electrodes - the fuel cell produced about 100 times more power.
9. Right now understanding just how these bacteria interact with the fuel cell anode to produce useful electric energy is the major challenge. Once this is understood, he expects that upping the electrical output of the fuel cells should be a straightforward bioengineering problem.
10. Nealson, along with Steven Finkel and Byung-Hong Kim, lead the search for biological and genetic solutions to the challenge.
11. In 2002, Nealson identified genes thought to be responsible for electrical production in MR-1.Nealson hopes that by understanding the biological mechanisms involved in the microbe’s electrical current production, he will be able to genetically engineer an MR-1 strain that will produce hundreds to thousands times the amount of energy of its forebears.
12. In another tack, the team has seen some rise in power output from changing the bacterial growth conditions in the fuel cell device.
13. A 2006 paper by Yuri Gorby of the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego and co-authored by Nealson revealed a network of living nanowires linking the bacteria in a kind of electrical grid. Nealson speculates that the network of nanowires, actually bacterial filaments called pili, offers a more efficient pathway for electrons traveling to the anode and thus a stronger current.
14. There is a focus on two strategies to boost the bug’s power. First, by studying ways to increase the survival time and growth for the MR-1 microbes living in the fuel cell. Second, by looking at ways to increase the electron output for each cell. 15. Another element of the team’s study will be to see if adding other bacteria to the mix can enhance the fuel cell performance — by breaking down waste, by using materials MR-1 can’t use, or by changing acidity or other parameters.
16. “Once we have an optimal cell, the engineers will start looking at how to make this a thousand times bigger or a thousand times smaller,”...
17. Paul Ronney, an astronaut and world authority on micro-scale power generation, will use techniques developed for his research on combustion with conventional fuels to understand the dynamics of the microbes living in the fuel cell.
18. Paul Ronney and fellow mechanical engineer Hai Wong, both of the Viterbi School of Engineering and co-investigators on the MURI project, will use data collected from the prototypes to build a mathematical model that will predict an optimal design for the microbial fuel cell.
19. The interdisciplinary team, which also includes geochemist Andreas Luttge of Rice University, provides an unparalleled perspective onto a scientific problem. “We have the big picture of what’s going on, as well as all of the details — the microbiology, genetics, electrochemistry, microscopy — all of it."
Source: By Eva Emerson / Eric Mankin, USC College
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AlgoDyne Ethanol Energy for Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell Partnership
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AlgoDyne Ethanol Energy Inc. Looking for Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell Partnership
Dec 27th, 2006
Source: Seeking Alpha's article
Excerpts:
1. AlgoDyne Ethanol Energy Inc. (ADYN.OB) announced that it is currently negotiating partnerships in the Direct-Alcohol-Fuel-Cell [DAFC] field to provide a cutting-edge system.
2. DAFCs generate electric power through the direct oxidation of alcohol in conjunction with the reduction of oxygen.
3. AlgoDyne’s proprietary mico-algae-based (phytoplankton) technology provides a powerful means to produce clean, renewable energy from the continual harvest of bio-mass from Photo-Bioreactors. The end result is the production of ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, electricity, coal and animal feed – all in a carbon dioxide neutral way.
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First algae being grown in Mookgopong bioreactor, South Africa
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First algae being grown in Mookgopong bioreactor
Cremer Media's Engineering News Online, Dec 2006
Excerpts:
1. With the imminent release of South Africa's long-awaited national biofuels strategy, biodiesel producer De Beers Fuel has showcased a new technology that could significantly increase the country's capacity to produce biofuels.
2. Technology introduced by the company in partnership with GreenFuel Technologies and Green Star Products of the US, in Mookgopong in Limpopo, involves the growing of algae as feedstock for biofuels production. Biodiesel, bioethanol and biogas can be produced from the algae.
3. The company's ambitious expansion plans involve the production of sufficient feedstock to produce between 16-billion and 24-billion litres of biodiesel in the next five years.
4. South Africa currently uses about 8,1-billion litres of diesel a year
5. Bioreactors can be installed at power and industrial plants to recycle CO2 emissions
6. Using GreenFuel Technology's algae bioreactor system connected to APS's 1 040-MW Redhawk power plant in Arlington, Arizona, GreenFuel was able to create a carbon-rich algal biomass.
7. De Beers Fuel is part of the Global Renewable Energy Efficiency Network (Green), which is headquartered in Johannesburg. Green-Fuels Technologies has signed an agreement with Green to license its proprietary technology to the company.
8. Plans are under way for Green to deploy a fuel assessment unit at the Kelvin power station, in Johannesburg.
7. The national South African biofuels strategy will likely entail a mandatory 5% blending ratio for biodiesel (known as B5) and a 10% mandatory blending ratio for bio-ethanol into petrol, known as E10.
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Polluting Emissions to Biofuels through Algae
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Emissions-to-biofuels through Algae
A simple introduction to algae-based biofuels - from Dr SS Verma, Dept of Physics, SLIET, Longowal, India @ Central Chronicle
Excerpts:
1. Though fossil fuel reserves are depleting and combustion is associated with the generation of many environmentally unfriendly end products (viz, CO2, NOx, SOx, soot and fly ash) but still the combustion of fossil fuels for the time being seems to be an inevitable source of energy.
2. Power plants and transport are responsible for emitting huge quantities of greenhouse gas emissions as both still rely heavily on fossil fuels...The easiest way to eliminate gases particularly given off by coal-burning power plants is through photosynthesis. But industrial quantities of CO2 need industrial amounts of photosynthesis. Researchers are now hoping to marry the two together - at the heart of the technology are algae, which can suck gaseous emissions from a power plant's exhaust and convert it into biofuel.
3. Algae are the fastest growing plants on earth...Because photosynthesis efficiency is driven by complex cellular mechanisms that depend on having just the right exposure to light past algal systems grew to be complex and ultimately too expensive for most industrial sites to contemplate. They either took the form of huge, shallow ponds with extensive pumping and distribution mechanisms, or precisely engineered closed bioreactors with high manufacturing and maintenance costs.
4. The algae use the available carbon dioxide and water to grow new algae, giving off pure oxygen and water vapour in the process. The process, called photomodulation, rotates the algae in and out of the sunlight, rather than bringing the sunlight to the algae....The algae use the CO2, along with sunlight and water, to produce sugars by photosynthesis, which are then metabolised into fatty oils and protein.
5. Algae reduce NOx day and night, regardless of weather or lighting conditions. The process is essentially an effect of the surface configuration of the algae cell walls. Even dead algae can provide significant NOx reduction, up to 70 percent.
6. For centuries Algae has been used as manure. Algae can be used to make biodiesel and by some estimates can produce vastly superior amounts of oil, compared to terrestrial crops grown for the same purpose...Algae can also be used to produce hydrogen. Algae are used in wastewater treatment facilities, reducing the need for more dangerous chemicals...Algae can be used to capture fertilizers in runoff from farms. If this algae is then harvested, it itself can be used as fertilizer.
Dr SS Verma, Dept of Physics, SLIET, Longowal
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Who said algal blooms were a problem? - They are a solution!
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Environmental science fuels the future
Who said algal blooms were a problem? Truth be known, when we stare at a slimy green sludge atop the favourite watering hole we may be looking at one of the best prospects there is for fuelling cars and power stations in the future, says this note from Murdoch University (Australia) environmental science page.
Excerpts:
1. Professor Steve Halls puts algae firmly in the biofuel basket. “They will be one of the most important fuel commodities in the world in the 21st Century,” he said.
2. A soybean crop can yield 40m3 to 50m3 of oil per square kilometre, while a good turgid brew of algae could yield up to 400 times more. There are over 400 species of algae suited to biofuel production.
3. Murdoch University is working closely with the Mandurah-based Peel Development Commission on biodiesel production from the region.
4. What is contemplated is a battery of large vats or ‘photo-bio reactors’, into which the nutrient-rich run-off from surrounding farmland would be diverted. Fuel oil would emerge as the end product. “It would be a brilliant solution for the recurring algal blooms that threaten crab harvests and annoy the life out of tourists and residents alike,” Professor Halls said.
5. According to Professor Halls, so attractive are the prospects for the venture that a Perth-based commercial partner is poised to commit to a feasibility study. This local interest mirrors the global picture.
6. “Biofuels are the future, no doubt,” said Halls.
7. Fuel from Peel algae would help rein in such excesses and help build a more sustainable future.
Ranked in the top schools within Australia, Murdoch’s School of Environmental Science offers several degrees in environmental science, including the flagship four year Bachelor of Environmental Science.
The School combines areas of environmental management and policy with relevant aspects of environmental systems and engineering in an integrated degree program that also provides students with the flexibility to specialise.
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NMSU studies special algae for biodiesel production
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NMSU studies special algae for biodiesel production
Jan 09, 2007, Ruidoso News
1. The NMSU science center is serving as the location of algae fuel research led by the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management, based in Carlsbad.
2. NMSU is helping on two fronts - providing technical expertise through the Artesia Science Center and having NMSU College of Engineering Dean Steve Castillo serve on the CEHMM Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Council.
3. The project is investigating the best ways to grow and harvest certain species of algae, which produce a much higher level of oil than more traditional crops like soybeans or canola.
4. CEHMM is also collaborating with the Artesia Science Center on a project focused on the potential of growing a cold-season canola crop to generate oil for biodiesel production."
5. The tremendous reserves of brackish water, mild climate and abundant sunshine in New Mexico make good conditions for algae farmers.
6. The next step in the algae research is to establish a larger demonstration pond at the Artesia center, about one-quarter of an acre in size. Construction of the pond should be complete in March 2007.
7. A much larger demonstration project to be started in 2008 eventually will cover about 100 acres, Lynn said.
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Want alternative energy? Try pond scum
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Want alternative energy? Try pond scum
To the growing industry of biodiesel and ethanol refiners with their eyes on biomass, algae looks like green gold, says By Clifford Carlsen @ TheDeal.com - CNet News
Excerpts:
1. 10 to 15 years from now it is hard to imagine that algae won't be a dominant source of oil for biodiesel.
2. Unlike most plants, algae shares characteristics of bacteria, and its photosynthetic machinery operates much faster in converting inorganic substances into organic matter. While plants require a lot of fuel to sow and harvest and additional fertilizer and fresh water to nourish, algae can be continuously harvested from closed water-based bioreactors that require little additional replenishment other than inorganic fuel supplied in the form of waste gas.
3. While corn, soybeans, canola and other common food crops have drawn the greatest public interest in biomass as a source of fuel, those commodities have been championed by a nexus of growers, processors, brokers and powerful lobbying groups. Algae has few such advocates, and market demand has yet to materialize.
4. The best sources of fertilizer for growing algae are the very greenhouse gases of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone that electrical power generators are under increasing pressure to reduce and the animal wastes that are increasingly becoming a problem for industrial-scale livestock operations.
5. For investors it is daunting to risk large amounts of capital on an emerging technology with no immediate market, noting that large bioreactors covering multiple acres of ponds closed to the open air are expensive to build.
6. Briggs estimates that the U.S. would require roughly 141 billion gallons of biodiesel to replace the 60 billion gallons of petroleum diesel and 120 billion gallons of gasoline now used in U.S. vehicles.
7. But while investors recognize the compelling science behind algae technology, they believe it remains several years away from commercial viability.
Organizations & Personalities: Bill Dommermuth, plant manager, Seattle Biodiesel; Imperium Renewables; Investors as Nth Power, Technology Partners and Vulcan Capital; Michael Briggs, laboratory manager at the University of New Hampshire Physics Department
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
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The year in biofuels - Algae comes into limelight
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The year in biofuels
January 1, 2007, By Cyrus Levesque @ Addison Independent
Excerpts:
1. According to Netaka White, executive director of Middlebury-based Vermont Biofuel Association, the industry in 2007 will see a large change to one of its smallest components: algae.
2. White expects that some researcher or company will find a controlled way to produce biodiesel from algae in the coming year. By 2008, he predicted algae-based fuel systems could be commercialized.
3. Pound for pound, algae is already an efficient way to produce oils that can be used to make biodiesel, but it isn’t commercially popular already because of problems finding a strain from which the oil can be easily harvested. “The challenge is to optimize production of algae in a contained, controlled environment,” White said.
4. A welcome side effect of algae-based biodiesel is that it could reduce pollution.
5. Nitrogen and phosphorus in animal waste can become a pollutant in waters and can cause algae blooms in lakes and rivers, but algae on farms would eat those waste products before they ever reach the lake and turn them into diesel oils.
6. From a September decision by Middlebury College to build a biomass-fueled power plant, to a decision by the Middlebury selectboard in July to heat town buildings with biodiesel, use of biofuels has increased significantly over the past year. White estimated that about 275,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel were burned in Vermont in 2005
7. White said that he has seen a lot of growth in research and production of biofuels locally.
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Most NZ's Biodiesel Could Come From Algae: Aquaflow
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Most NZ's Biodiesel Could Come From Algae: Aquaflow
17 Dec 2006
A Marlborough-based biofuels company says a new biodiesel derived from algae could cover about 80 percent of the country's demand for the fuel.
The chairman of Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, Barrie Leay, Aquaflow plans to increase capacity to produce one million litres of bio-diesel from the Marlborough sewage ponds over the next year.
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says it is likely that New Zealand will end up with bio-refineries to blend minerals to get the required product.
Source: Newswire, New Zealand
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Poop-Grown Algae to Fuel Cars? - Red Herring
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Poop-Grown Algae to Fuel Cars?
Aquaflow says biodiesel made from wild algae extracted from sewage ponds got a successful test drive - December 15, 2006, By Jennifer Kho @ Red Herring
Excerpts
1. Aquaflow Bionomic, a startup based in Malborough, said earlier this year that it produced the world’s first sample of biodiesel from sewage ponds, and the test drive proves the “wild algae” biodiesel can power a car.
2. Many consider algae to be an attractive alternative to current biofuel materials—such as corn, soybeans, and palm—because the slime has a high lipid density.
3. But growing algae is difficult, and challenges to bringing it to mass production include cost and reliability, among other things. So the idea of extracting algae that already exists, such as in sewage ponds is an interesting possibility
4. Algae are already readily produced in huge volumes in nutrient-rich waste streams such as in sewage settling ponds.
5. Aquaflow has developed organic chemistry and engineering technology to convert sewage algae into biodiesel.
6. A company spokesperson said Aquaflow’s technology could supply 10 percent of America’s biodiesel requirement in five to 10 years.
7. U.S. aims to replace 30 percent of its transportation fuel with biofuel by 2030.
8. Joel Makower, a principal at Clean Edge, said waste streams are a great untapped resource.
9. The company Aquaflow has only produced “a couple of liters” of the stuff so far, and plans to grow production to 1 million liters next year. It still must prove its technology can economically produce large volumes.
10. One particular advantage of the human-sewage approach is that algae from sewage tends to have a lot of oil, said Cary Bullock, CEO of Greenfuel Technologies
11. Sewage-treatment plants with open ponds make up only about a third of New Zealand’s plants. With Aquaflow’s technology, that would make a potential supply of 20- to 30-million liters a year. That’s not much compared to a 3.1-billion-liter worldwide biodiesel market, itself a tiny part of the diesel market.
12. Aquaflow has gotten inquiries from the U.S., Portland, Scotland, Italy, and South America
13. Outside of sewage, Aquaflow hopes to tap into other waste streams, such as dairy, wine, and food.
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Greenfuel Technologies in a strategic alliance with IGV
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Greenfuel Technologies Corporation signed a strategic alliance agreement with IGV
Friday, January 12, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Greenfuel Technologies Corporation, a leader in the development of algae bioreactor technology for recycling CO2 in flue gases into clean, renewable biofuels, announced that it has signed a strategic alliance agreement with IGV, a private industrial research institute headquartered in Pottsdam, Germany.
IGV is a pioneer in micro-algae research and production with more than 80 commercial technology deployments worldwide. The announcement was made today in Pottsdam at a special signing ceremony attended by several Brandenburg government ministers and other high-ranking German dignitaries of science, industry and politics.
Under the terms of the agreement, GreenFuel and IGV will share proprietary algae bioreactor technology in an effort to accelerate the commercialization of biofuel production from recycled carbon dioxide in power plant flue gas emissions. GreenFuel and IGV will also pursue commercial opportunities together in Europe. Once in commercial production, the GreenFuel Emissions-to-Biofuels™ process will allow power plants to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions, generate carbon credits, and produce clean, renewable biofuels.
Algae are unicellular plants and, like all plants, they divide and grow using the process known as photosynthesis. GreenFuel estimates that its Emissions-to-Biofuels™ process can absorb a significant percentage of a power plant’s CO2 emissions during the daytime. Unlike typical agricultural biofuel feedstocks, such as soybeans or corn which have a limited harvest window, algae multiply every hour and can be harvested every day. Algae can also be grown on poor quality land with non-potable water, so they don’t compete for land suitable for food crops. The carbon-enriched algae contain lipid oils and starches that can be converted into biodiesel and ethanol for transportation fuels. The residual protein can be used for animal feed and nutritional supplements. GreenFuel is currently involved in a number of Emissions-to-Biofuels™ pilot projects in the USA, Australia, Europe, and South Africa.
“We are extremely impressed with the knowledge, experience and professionalism of the entire IGV organization,” said Cary Bullock, CEO of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation. “We believe that IGV will be a valuable and strategic partner in our efforts to bring our Emissions-to-Biofuels™ algal bioreactor systems into full-scale commercial production at a number of locations around the world.”
About GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
With more than a dozen pending patents, GreenFuel Technologies Corporation is a recognized leader in the development of algae bioreactor systems that recycle carbon dioxide into clean renewable biofuels. GreenFuel Technologies Corporation is winner of both the “2006 Platts Global Energy Award for Energy Emission Project of the Year,” and the “2006 Frost & Sullivan Innovation of the Year Award – Biofuels.” Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.greenfuelonline.com.
Contacts
GreenFuel Technologies Corp.
Marc Bane, 1-978-443-2378
mbane@greenfuelonline.com
Source: Business Wire
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
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Pond Scum Offers Promise for Biodiesel
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Pond Scum Offers Promise for Biodiesel
January 11th, 2007 - Ed Yeates Reporting @ KSL, Utah's Online news & info source
Excerpts from the news article:
1. Utah researchers are making plans to build a "refinery" for biodiesel production from algae.
2. Utah State University researchers are looking at biodiesel fuel made from pond scum.
3. According to a spokesperson for the research team for soybeans, you get about 48 gallons per acre, while for algae you get about 10-thousand gallons of oil per acre.
4. Pond scum can be grown rapidly on meshes or grids inside huge structures, fed by rooftop solar dishes. It's not a refinery, but a bioreactor.
5. The 'refinery" uses thousands of solar dishes that forms part of the bioreactor.
6. "For every square meter of parabolic dish, we can illuminate 10 square meters of algae surface."
7. The project & technology have got the backing of the Utah Science and Technology Research Initiative to the tune of six million dollars in seed money.
8. USU expects pond scum biodiesel fuels could become cost competitive by 2009.
Companies & personalities mentioned: Utah State University; Lance Seefeldt , USU Biofuels Program; Byard Wood, USU Biofuels Program
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
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Biodiesel from Algae Event in San Francisco Bay Area
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Biodiesel from Algae Event in San Francisco Bay Area
Source: I want my algae-mobile - Andrew Leonard's post on How the World Works @ Salon
Andrew provides some inputs on the proceedings at San Francisco on the latest tech developments related top making biodiesel from algae.
Excerpts
1. Event attended mainly biodiesel home-brewers in the San Francisco Bay Area
2. Crowd showed support for grass-roots, sustainable biofuel production.
3. One of the speakers, Jon Meuser, spoke about his own research, which "focuses on the natural biodiversity of photosynthetic fuel production by algae, including hydrogen and lipids"
4. The potential productivity of algae dwarfs the rest of biodiesel feedstock.
5. Three well-established start-ups that are at work commercializing algae bioreactors are: Greenfuel Technologies, SolixBiofuels, and New Zealand's Aquaflow Bionomics. So far, Greenfuels has the highest profile
6. But it is not yet clear...that any of these companies has solved the thorny problems of figuring out how to extract lipids -- hydrocarbon-containing organic compounds -- from algae and synthesize oil from them on a cost-effective large scale.
7. The speaker made a plea to explore open source biodiesel.
8. Fulfilling algae's potential as an energy feedstock on a scale big enough to make a difference will require massive investment and research, because not only are the the technical difficulties involved immense, but our understanding of the varying potential of the myriad strains of algae available in the wild is still quite limited.
Companies & personalities mentioned: Jon Meuser; San Francisco Biofuels Cooperative and the Biodiesel Council of California
Update: And the next day I see an interesting response posted to Andrew's article by a professor who feels that biofuels are simply not the answer to our energy problems. I am reproducing the professor's views and Andrew's response:
Biodiesel, algae and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
U.C. Berkeley professor and prominent biofuel critic Tadeusz Patzek posted a response to Wednesday's account of a talk on making biodiesel from algae. It's interesting enough to shine a bigger spotlight on.
Mr. Leonard seems to be having problems with my general message: Do not fool yourselves that algae, soybeans, palm oil, corn or switchgrass can solve the runaway problem of energy consumption in the United States and, now, the world. The reason is simple, the laws of nature, specifically the First and Second Law of thermodynamics do not allow for the sustained production of energy from plants in 1 year at the same rate as we have been using fossil energy accumulated over 500,000,000 years.
I would like to invite Mr. Leonard and the Salon readers to audit my course CE170 "Energy, Earth and Humans," that starts next week at Berkeley. Perhaps this course could help Mr. Leonard to recognize the power of the Second Law of thermodynamics he seems to have ignored. A very prominent astrophysicist, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, said these words 60 years ago:
"The law that entropy increases -- the Second Law of Thermodynamics -- holds, I think, the supreme position among laws of nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations -- then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is contradicted by observation -- well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found against the Second Law of Thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
In the intervening 60 years, Americans have had ample time and opportunity to learn the true meaning of these words. We have not at our own peril.
However -- I am not quite sure why professor Patzek is under the impression that I do not appreciate his views on energy consumption and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In my October post on a talk he gave at Berkeley, I specifically noted:
His fundamental point is that our current energy consumption is unsustainable, even if biofuel production was ramped up at spectacular growth rates. Thermodynamically, we just can't do it -- we're burning through the planet's accumulated energy reserves faster than we can create or discover new sources of fuel...
We can hope that solar becomes cost-competitive and we can dream of cellulosic ethanol technologies or algae-brewed biodiesel that leave old-fashioned corn-based ethanol in the dust, but there is unlikely to be a magic techno-fix. We're going to have to do more with less. - Andrew
And then, here's another response to Professor Paztek's observation about the Second Law of Thermodynamics and biofuels' (alleged) negative energy balance. This note is from a user called Iggie:
"...The Second Law is not news to all of the other scientists that study energy balance of biofuels. Among all of these other scientists, a consensus has developed over the past decade that biofuels (even marginal ones like corn ethanol) have a positive energy balance. How can this possibly be? Are all of these other scientists ignoramuses? Is Prof. Patzek the sole voice of sanity within the scientific community? He is the sole voice with this view, with dozens of others in agreement with each other and in disagreement with him. Science is not a democracy, but extraordinary claims do demand extraordinary evidence. The studies that Prof. Patzek has been involved in have been refuted by the scientific community a long time ago, and he's come up with nothing new to justify dredging this up again now. Well, apparently the Second Law argument is a new angle. It will only work on non-scientists however, because the Second Law is not something any scientist is going to overlook. Ever. For a journalist, it would be like forgetting about subject-verb agreement.
The earth receives from the sun an average of 100 watts of power per square foot. There is no chance we will ever recover more than a tiny fraction of that, but a tiny fraction is all that we need. Plants store a tiny fraction of this energy from the sun in the form of oil, starch and sugar. They've been perfecting this for the past 3.5 billion years. The energy they store does not come from petroleum - it comes from the sun. We're orders of magnitude from violating the Second Law. Prof. Patzek is using a rhetorical trick by telling us how important the Second Law is (it is), even though it has nothing to do with the energy balance of biofuels..."
And one another reader (Smileyy this time) retorts:
"
Maybe the professor needs his own lesson
The Second Law of Thermodynamics applies to closed systems.
There's enormous amounts of energy coming into the earth via the sun....
...It just happens that we don't have very efficient means of converting solar energy into usable energy -- be it solar cells, biodeisel, or 500,000,000 year old solar energy trapped in fossil fuels.
"
Interesting debate
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The key to new energy source lies in algae
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The key to new energy source lies in algae
By Mark E. Capron, December 18, 2006
Thanks to Tom Catino @ Oil from Algae Yahoo Group for bringing this article to my notice
Re: John Krist's Dec. 14 essay, "Substituting grass for gas":
We're both happy there are places that can afford to grow grass for
fuel. But if global warming and foreign oil were a baseball game,
grass, corn and soybeans are good sacrifice bunts. Unfortunately, we
aren't noticing the home-run hitter sitting on the bench: algae
farming.
— Algae provides two products, food and biodiesel, simultaneously.
Algae farming may be the low-cost, high-nutrition food sought by the
2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner. In contrast, producing 25-gallons of
corn ethanol destroys a year's food for one person.
— Corn, grass, soybeans and biomass use water with less than 2,000
parts per millimeter salts. Algae grown in water has zero to 60,000
ppm salts. Saltier water algae are oilier.
— Research from the University of New Hampshire shows algae produces
between 5,000 and 15,000 gallons of fuel per acre per year. (Corn
produces about 350 gpa annually; soybeans about 60.) This means
California could easily grow enough algae to replace all
California's transportation fuel demand.
— Algae farming works symbiotically with water issues in places like
the Oxnard Plain and the Salton Sea to be an environmental
mitigation and to produce funds to pay for maintaining other
mitigations.
These four reasons provide a nexus for state and federal funding to
resolve Oxnard Plain, Salton Sea, Owens Lake and Westlands Water
District issues. The reasons indicate investing in algae farming
will yield more energy, more quickly than hydrogen or ethanol,
particularly in climates like California's.
A challenge would be a very quick and efficient means to move algae
farming from small demonstrations to large scale. There are issues
to resolve before large scale (1,000-plus acres) algae farms become
economically viable. Algae in open ponds lose a lot of water because
of evaporation, making it difficult to provide a consistent salinity
content. It is difficult to mix the necessary nutrients in shallow
ponds. The highest-yield algae strains are often overwhelmed by
other algae and bacteria. The algae require a constant supply of
carbon dioxide.
Ventura County is an ideal location for the challenge. The challenge
site could be within bicycle distance of CSU Channel Islands while
also only an hour from UC Santa Barbara. There are flat agricultural
areas near 400 acres of duck ponds between Oxnard and Point Mugu
that would benefit from agriculture that did not require ground
water. Agricultural drainage water, in need of nutrient removal
treatment, is available. (The algae will turn nutrients to energy,
and perhaps recycle or decompose other constituents of agricultural
drainage.) A large supply of brackish water that may benefit from
additional treatment will shortly be available from the Calleguas
Creek Brine Line.
The challenge would allocate aspiring algae farmers a plot of land
for side-by-side demonstrations. The winning farmer will produce
biodiesel and food while removing pollutants from desalting brines
and agriculture runoff with the most cost-effective process. The top
prize should be on the order of $1 million. Each 10-acre
demonstration should produce on the order of 100,000 gallons of
biodiesel per year and a similar volume of animal feed while
cleaning millions of gallons of agricultural drainage and brackish
water.
— Mark E. Capron, of Ventura, is a professional engineer with the
Ventura Regional Sanitation District.
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
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Diatoms with High Oil Content
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Diatoms with High Oil Content
Blair Paul has this query @ Oil from Algae Yahoogroup
"I'm very interested in marine diatoms usage for biodiesel due to the their excellent defenses that allow them to persist during most blooms. Also due to their wide diversity and high storage capacity for oils inside their cytoplasm. I know that most people are focusing on Dunaliela sp. and Botryococcus braunii, where I want to find a diatom that already outpersists and outcompetes the other phytoplankton in the ocean, and is very fatty.
Question - Does anyone know any diatom species that are being looked at? or are extremely fatty? These could be fresh or salt water."
Any one has answers?
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Chemical Composition of Tropical Australian Marine Macroalgae
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Seasonal Variation in the Chemical Composition of Tropical Australian Marine Macroalgae - Journal of Applied Phycology
The abstract of the research paper is presented here. The research paper of available for download here (PDF format)
Seasonal Variation in the Chemical Composition of Tropical Australian Marine Macroalgae - Susan M. Renaud1 and Jim T. Luong-Van1
(1) Faculty of Science and Primary Industries, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
Published online: 10 June 2006
Abstract The proximate chemical composition (ash, soluble carbohydrate, lipid and protein) was determined in 30 common species of tropical Australian marine macroalgae from Darwin Harbour (12?26?S, 130?51?E), in summer (hot and wet) and winter (cool and dry). There was a wide diversity of species in both seasons (19 species in summer and 20 species in winter). In most species, the major component was soluble carbohydrate (chlorophytes range 2.5–25.8% dry weight (dw), phaeophytes range 8.4–22.2% dw, rhodophytes range 18.7–39.2% dw) with significantly higher (p <>Oilgae - Oil & Biodiesel from Algae
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
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Algae biodiesel presentation/lecture in San Francisco
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Algae biodiesel-related slideshow presentation/lecture in San Francisco
Maria Alovert is promoting a biodiesel-related slideshow presentation/lecture in San Francisco for the possibilities of using algae to make the biofuel. The class will be taught by algae researcher Jon Meuser, Ph.D. Candidate in the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines on January 9th from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Artists' Television Access. It's free.
Jon Meuser researches biological fuel production and is a co-organizer of the Biodiesel Co-op's Conference.
If you're interested in attending send an email to [classregistration] @ [girlmark] . [com] (remove the brackets) or just show up. No RSVP required.
Notice courtesy: Auto Blog Green article
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
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Letter to NM Governor from CEHMM Oil from Algae Project
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Call it the American way of persuasion. Reading this one understands at least one of the reasons why the Americans have achieved so much - they try to do something while the rest of us just keep complaining. If only George Bush were as bright and humble as the rest of America...read on
An open invitation to Governor Richardson - The Current-Argus
6th Jan 2007
As published in Current Argus
Dear Governor Richardson,
It's unmistakably a very busy time of year for you, just freshly sworn in to a second term and on the cusp of a packed 60-day legislative session — not to mention the presidential campaign toil right around the corner. Amid all the worthy endeavors that compete for your time and energy, allow us to suggest a visit to Carlsbad.
Why? Because you need to see and hear first hand what's going on at the Center for Excellence in Hazardous Materials Management.
CEHMM, with the help of several strategic scientific partners and General Atomics, is pursuing the idea of growing algae to create an alternative fuel, known as biodiesel, on a large scale.
Meanwhile, in November, Tom Bowles (your science advisor) announced the New Mexico Bioeconomy Infrastructure Initiative. As best as we can discern, this initiative is apt to duplicate or even threaten to eliminate the work CEHMM is doing in the realm of Algae/Biodiesel. That would be a terrible thing.
No chief executive can do it all. You have surrounded yourself with many bright people to assist in governing the state. Your advisers are busy right now deciding whether or not to even share the details of CEHMM's and General Atomics' proposal
with you. But this is a special instance when delegating or relying completely on advisors just won't cut it.
You need to observer for yourself just how much momentum CEHMM already mustered toward creating a viable science and business model. We applaud you for your initiative to engage New Mexico in solving the nation's energy problems. It is important work, and will require all of the resources our state can muster if we are to be successful. Carlsbad is already playing a vital role toward that goal — and you need to witness this first-hand.
So, please governor — before the legislative mayhem begins — come on down.
Best regards,
The Current-Argus Editorial Board
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
Algae Biofuel Project @ New Mexico State University (NMSU) Artesia Facility
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Biofuel bonanza may lie in algae tanks
NMSU scientists in on the hunt for algae-based biodiesel at Artesia facility
By New Mexico State University, says this Jan 2007 article from LAS CRUCES SUN-NEWS
Excerpts:
1. The NMSU science center is serving as the location of research led by the Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management (CEHMM), based in Carlsbad. The research is focused on developing the potential of growing algae as an oil-producing feedstock for biodiesel production.
2. The project is investigating the best ways to grow and harvest certain species of algae, which produce a much higher level of oil than more traditional crops like soybeans or canola.
3. The project hopes to grow algae on the reserves of brackish water - which, along with mild climate and abundant sunshine are available in New Mexico
4. While one tank's water is agitated with a paddlewheel, researchers tried a system of pipes to circulate the water in a second tank. The results were less successful than with the paddlewheel, and the second tank is not growing algae anymore.
5. A densometer is used to determine the density of algae in the water.
6. The next step is to establish a larger demonstration pond at the Artesia center, about one-quarter of an acre in size. A much larger demonstration project to be started in 2008 eventually will cover about 100 acres, Lynn said.
Personalities and companies mentioned: Matt Mathis, left, and Roger Simmons, New Mexico State University (NMSU); Doug Lynn, CEHMM interim executive director; Steve Castillo - on the CEHMM Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Council; Artesia Science Center; Steve Loring, assistant director of NMSU's Agricultural Experiment Station; Extension agronomist Robert Flynn
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To facilitate exploration of oil production from algae as well as exploration of other alternative energy avenues, Oilgae provides web links, directory, and related resources for algae-based biofuels / biodiesel along with inputs on new inventions, discoveries & breakthroughs in other alternative energy domains such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, hydrogen & fuel cells, gravitational, geothemal, human-powered, ocean & wave / tidal energy. We hope Oilgae proves to be useful as a research information & inputs resources, and as a source of news & info for business & trade of algal oil, algal fuels & new alternative energy products - specially with regard to new feedstock / feedstocks, production processes and uses, and market info such as price / prices, data & statistics
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