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The National Algae Association (NAA) has announced a Commercial Algae Farming Workshop that is to be held on April 11-12, 2013 in Texas. The workshop presentation topics will include Growing for Nutraceuticals (Omega 3, EPA, DHA), Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, Feed, Food, Bioplastics and Organic Fertilizer; CO2 and Nutrients; Harvesting and Extraction Methods; and Financing Opportunities. A [...]
The BIT’s 2nd Annual International Conference of Algae will be held on September 23-25, 2013 in Hangzhou, China. This conference will seek the views and creative ideas on technologies for production and industry application of algae culture. The sessions will present the most recent advances in the fields of algae research on Biofuels, Drug Development, [...]
Mideast and North Africa are emerging as a key R&D hub for algae based products with cutting edge research and technology projects at Qatar, Abu Dhabi University, Masdar Institute and University of Mansoura Egypt, Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research. Centre for Management Technology’s Algae World MENA Summit in Dubai on February 25-27 will see the [...]
Thought I’d drop in a note about CleanTick ( http://www.cleantick.com ), the online cleantech community launched by my company Clixoo. ( This site Oilgae is also run by Clixoo.) CleanTick aspires to be a catalyst for cleantech worldwide. You might ask “How?” The platform provides some useful features for the key cleantech change agents – [...]
The 4th international algae congress will take place in the Planetarium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 1 and 2 December 2010. The Congress sessions will address the following themes: Algae Projects BioFuel Synthetic Genomics/ GMO Algae Markets – Economic potential Markets – Economic potentia Regulations Macro Algae DLG BENELUX is the organizer of the International [...]
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 [...]
The Advanced Biofuels Markets conference, 9th-10th November 2010, San Francisco.The Advanced Biofuels Markets conference will bring together leading experts who are bringing advanced biofuels to market, including Advanced Biofuels Company Executives, Venture Capitalists and Investment Bankers, Corporate Strategic Investment and Alliance Executives, EPC firms and industry suppliers. Join the conference in November in San Francisco [...]
Press Release Save time and money! Join the Algae Producers, Equipment Manufacturers and Algae Researchers who say “we don’t need to wait another 5 years – we need commercial-scale algae production NOW.” Learn about innovative algae processes and technologies from the algaepreneurs actually growing, harvesting and extracting algae oil and biomass using available technologies. Collaborate [...]
Phycal LLC, which has an algae biotechnology laboratory at the BioResearch and Development Growth Park (BRDG) at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has won a $24.2 million federal research grant. Phycal, led by President and CEO Kevin Berner, researches how to develop a production system for growing algae and extracting an energy product, primarily [...]
A joint research project to extract food ingredients from algae is being started by Dutch organization TNO and industrial algae producer Ingrepro Renewables BV. The extracted ingredients are healthy vegetable oils and mostly proteins and could be used as a sustainable substitute for meat. If and how carbohydrates from algae can be used will also [...]
According to Anna Stephenson from the University of Cambridge, when algae is grown in clear-tubed bioreactors the energy required to move the algae around so that it gets enough sunlight means that per megajoule equivalent of fuel, the algae fuel has a carbon footprint of 320 grams while petro-diesel takes 86 grams. See more
Research suggests some strains of algae can produce more than 10 times more fuel per acre than the soybeans used to make biodiesel or the corn used to make ethanol. And because algae can be grown in ponds in the desert, the acreage devoted to it would not interfere with food production. But there is [...]
Algal biofuels were proposed last year as an answer to the stalled Filene’s construction site at Downtown Crossing in Boston. The Eco-Pod, as designed, is a vertical algae bioreactor built with custom prefabricated modules. According to Höweler + Yoon, the proposed pods will would serve as biofuel sources and as micro-incubators for other research and [...]
Is harvesting oil from the same algae multiple times by causing minimal damage to the cell th best option? Yes, say a few researchers in the Ames Laboratory. From the Ames laboratory – The key to their process lies with millions of sponge-like nanospheres that were specially engineered by Ames Lab Program Director for Chemical [...]
Foreign genes are being spliced into algae and native genes are being tweaked. Different strains of algae are pitted against one another in survival-of-the-fittest contests in an effort to accelerate the evolution of fast-growing, hardy strains. The goal is nothing less than to create superalgae, highly efficient at converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into lipids [...]
Ohio-based Phycal LLC has landed a $24 million federal grant for a project that aims to produce biofuel from algae near Wahiawa. The project will use industrial carbon dioxide emissions to cultivate microalgae for biofuel that can be blended with other fuels. The $65 million pilot project will use shallow ponds and processing facilities on [...]
Algenol Inc.’s new research center under construction off Alico Road is expected to open in just over a month. Employees began packing materials from the company’s existing research facility in Baltimore this past week in anticipation of opening the new center on Sept. 1, chief executive officer Paul Woods said. “There are parts of the [...]
Swedish energy group Vattenfall said it had launched a major pilot project Thursday using algae to absorb greenhouse gas emissions from a coal-fired power plant in eastern Germany. The two-million-euro (2.6-million-dollar) trial run, which will continue until October 2011, in the depressed Lausitz mining region is one of several experimental attempts in the sector using [...]
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), acting in partnership with the Energy Technology Research Group of the Southampton University, United Kingdom (UK), has commenced research into the use of modern technologies to develop bio-fuel in Ghana. Topics they treated included “second generation bio-fuels based on biomass pyrolysis technology”, “computational modelling of biomass fast [...]
In Arizona, the 2010 Algae Biomass Summit, the official conference of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) and the algae industry’s premier global conference, released the event’s newly-expanded agenda featuring more than 70 speakers and seven new sessions. The 4th annual event will be held September 28-30 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, Arizona. [...]
Press Release Algae Industry Magazine (A.I.M.) has selected their Science and Industry Advisory Board. This panel of top industry professionals has been assembled to analyze and advise A.I.M. publishers regarding technology and controversial issues in the algae biofuels and co-products industry. “In this rapidly developing industry it is extremely beneficial to have the diverse talents [...]
Nofima Ingrediens (http://www.nofima.no/en), a business oriented research group working in research and development for the aquaculture, fisheries and food industry in Norway seeks a letter of intent from potential industries to contribute to the project proposal to the Norwegian Research Council on the use of alternatives to fish oil lipid sources for fish feeds. They [...]
Solazyme, Inc. is helping the U.S. military move closer to powering its planes, ships, tanks and trucks on renewable fuel and has delivered of 1,500 gallons of 100% algae-based jet fuel for the U.S. Navy’s testing and certification program. The U.S. Navy has previously announced the objective to operate at least 50% of its fleet [...]
According to Cynthia Warner, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in 2009, algae is 40 times more efficient at photosynthesis than any other plant, which makes it the king of bio-fuels. Last year, 4% of the US transportation fuel supply came from corn based ethanol. It took 23 million acres to achieve that. Warner says [...]
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman said a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report suggests that American taxpayers might be over-subsidizing corn-based biofuels, even while failing to provide any tax credit for algae-based fuels, which hold great promise for the nation’s environment and energy security, and for Southern New Mexico’s economy. Current law provides a 45-cents-per-gallon credit [...]
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