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Algae Oil Project Bags First Prize at Intel Science Talent Search

A 17-year-old high school student from Colorado, received top honors and a $100,000 prize for pioneering a technique to dramatically boost oil yields from algae, a crucial step in the economically viable production of biofuel from the plants, at the Intel Science Fair Contest held last week. Sara Volz, identified as the winner, uses a [...]

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[ More ] March 14th, 2013 | No Comments | Posted in algae oil production, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Oil-Yield |

SoladieselRD – the First 100% Microbially Derived Renewable Diesel Fuel to be Registered with the EPA

Another feather in Solazyme’s cap! The company’s microbially derived renewable diesel fuel SoladieselRD, has been granted registration by the US-EPA. This registration enables SoladieselRD to be sold commercially either in blended and unblended (R100) forms. Solazyme claims that SoladieselRD is the first 100% microbially derived renewable fuel to get registered with the EPA. Solazyme’s algae-derived fuel [...]

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[ More ] August 4th, 2012 | 1 Comment | Posted in algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Synthetic Genomics Acquires 81-acre Site for Testing Innovative Algae Strains

After a considerable interval time there’s an interesting news from Synthetic Genomics! In a recent Press Release synthetic biology expert Craig Venter’s company Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) has announced that the company has  purchased 81 acre site for scale up and testing of newly identified and engineered algal strains. The newly purchased site is located in [...]

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[ More ] May 25th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae Oil Extraction, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Algae Ethanol Producer Aquatic BioEnergy Raises $800,000

South Dakota-based algae fuel start-up Aquatic BioEnergy, which is using sea weeds for ethanol production, has raised $800,000 in private equity. The company uses sewer water or CO2 stripped from a power stack to feed the algae. Two years of lab analysis have led to the company’s current pilot facility in Sioux Falls,which employs 45,000 gallons of tank space [...]

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[ More ] May 25th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, algae oil production, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Biodiesel-Ethanol, Algae-Cultivation-Sewage |

OriginOil Files Patents for its Oil & Gas Field Wastewater Cleanup Technologies

OriginOil has filed two patents with the US PTO for its recently developed technology for cleaning up oil and gas field wastewater. The company hopes that its unique technology will find immediate application in oil and gas field wastewater cleanup  and in the long run, it will find a great market potential in industrial wastewater and [...]

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[ More ] May 25th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Sixth Grader Wins Award for Algae Biofuel Project

David Truilo is just 12 years old. But his concern towards sustainability and environmental protection is appreciable. And that concern has brought him to the first place at the State Science Engineering Fair that took place in Florida. If you know what fetched him the award, you will be surprised. Yes! the kid’s project was [...]

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[ More ] May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, algae oil production, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Biodiesel-Ethanol, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Heliae Breaks Ground on Arizona Demonstration Facility

Algae fuel company Heliae has begun construction at the 20 acres demonstration facility adjacent to Heliae’s Gilbert, Arizona headquarters. The construction is expected to go for 18 months. This facility will showcase the scalability and economics of Heliae’s algae technology platform. According to Frank Mars, the company’s co-founder and chairman, this advancement from R & D [...]

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[ More ] May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, algae oil production, Algae-Aviation-Fuel, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies |

US Air Force Researchers Turn Algae to Fuel

Researchers at the Tyndall Air Force Base see algae biofuels as a promising alternative energy feedstock, as they are working on a multi-million dollar project with the goal of reducing the reliance on foreign fossil fuel supplies. They started working on it three years back, and they are trying to figure out the ways of [...]

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[ More ] May 17th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae Oil Extraction, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Fuel, Algae-Fuel-Research |

GreenStars to Utilize Waste and Industrial CO2 for Producing Biofuels from Algae

French agricultural research organization the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) has launched a 160 million Euro collaborative platform, named “GreenStars”, for producing biofuels and high added value products using  microalgae feeding on nutrients contained in waste and CO2 emitted from industries. INRA has collaborated with 45 partners for this project and it hopes to be [...]

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[ More ] April 30th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-CO2-Capture, Algae-Cultivation-Sewage, Algae-Energy, Algae-Fuel-Research, Algae-Wastewater-Treatment |

Nigeria, Israel and Belgium Join Hands for Algae Biofuel Project

The Federal Government of Nigeria has had discussions with top companies from Belgium and Israel for the possibility of undertaking algae biofuel project. Representatives from two companies, Actiview Solutions from Belgium and Univerve Ltd from Israel and top officials from the Nigerian government were a part of the discussion. The discussion was focused on making [...]

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[ More ] April 30th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae oil production, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Nova Scotia Start-up Wins Clean Tech Competition

Halifax-based start-up SABRTech , has won the Nova Scotia Clean Tech Open, for developing technology to mass produce microalgae for fuel and other products. SABRTech was awarded awarded $100,000 in cash, a $200,000 negotiable seed investment, and in-kind business building services. The company is setting up a lab and working on a micro-algal bioreactor that effectively produces micro-algal biomass [...]

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[ More ] April 25th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Algae Biofuels – Racking the Brains!

Research interest of college and university students is leaning towards algae fuels! The U.S. EPA co-sponsored the 8th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo, which took place in Washington on April 21-23, over the Earth Day Weekend. The event witnessed a large number of university and college researchers working on biofuels and algae. Most of the researchers [...]

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[ More ] April 25th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Aquaflow Plans to Build Large Scale Biorefinery

Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, with the goal of building a 1000 tonnes per day biorefinery, will seek millions of dollars of funding from global investors. Earlier the company had planned to build a 100 tonnes per day biofuel plant to test the economics of producing a “drop-in” fuel from algae that could be used in existing combustion [...]

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[ More ] April 23rd, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae oil production, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy-Companies |

European Algae Biomass Conference, A Week to Go!

European Algae Biomass Conference, 2012 is taking place on 25th and 26th of April, 2012 in London. The event will present exciting opportunities to interact with industry experts, investors, researchers and government representatives in the algae energy domain.  The key topics to be discussed in the conference include European Market Insight Potential and Future Outlook [...]

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[ More ] April 19th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Events |

2nd International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts

Elsevier is organizing the 2nd International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts between the 1oth and 13th of June 2012 in SanDiego, USA. The event will have a special focus on the latest unpublished technical and scientific results, discussion and direct interactions with strategic partners and leaders in the field. The conference themes are as follows: [...]

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[ More ] April 18th, 2012 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Events, Algae-Energy-Products, Algae-Fuel-Research |

American Company to Produce Algae Biofuel

Extreme Biodiesel, a wholly owned subsidiary of BookMerge Technology, a US-based alternative fuel and recycling company is going to produce algae biodiesel (A100) for SunEco systems. SunEco is now finalizing the ‘million mile test’ with J.B. Hunt Trucking with fuel produced by Extreme Biodiesel. BookMerge and SunEco are planning for the next step to bring [...]

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[ More ] January 27th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Novel Conversion Process to Make Algae Fuels a Reality

Research team under Johannes A. Lercher of Technische Universität München has introduced a new catalytic process that allows the effective conversion of biopetroleum from microalgae into diesel fuels. Traditional methods for refining oil from microalgae suffer from various disadvantages. The resulting fuel either has too high an oxygen content and poor flow at low temperatures, [...]

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[ More ] January 12th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae Oil Extraction, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Sea Robots Farm Algae for Fuel

Although presently a small biofuel farm with only a small wind turbine, solar panel and a container of algae floating on water, Pennsylvania-based BEAR Oceanics envisions a fleet of tiny robots that could harvest the sea for algae which can then be converted to biodiesel. Six microbial genera will be used for the production of [...]

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[ More ] January 6th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Equipments, Algae-Fuel-Research, Algae-Oil-Companies |

School Students Build Classroom Bioreactors to Test Algae Fuels

Students from Cape Cornwall School in UK are going to build bioreactors in class for testing the viability of marine algae-based biofuels. The students will carry out the research with the help of grants from the Royal Society. According to Janine Walker, a biology teacher in the school, they are aiming at the best possible [...]

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[ More ] January 6th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Europe’s Largest Renewable Diesel Plant Opened

Neste Oil has officially opened the largest renewable diesel refinery in Europe, which is located in Rotterdam to produce the company’s renewable diesel NExBTL. The plant was built at € 670 million and has an annual production capacity of 1 billion liters of NExBTL. According to Neste Oil, the emissions benefit of the refinery’s output [...]

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[ More ] December 21st, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, bio diesel-companies |

Universities of Georgia and Puerto Rico Researchers Unite for Algae Biofuels Project

Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) and University of Puerto Rico have come together to launch a renewable energy center to grow algae for biofuels. The center will be located in Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico and it aims at reducing the dependence of U.S on fossil fuels. US Department of Defense is [...]

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[ More ] December 20th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation-Biofuel, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Algae Fuels Community @ CleanTick – One-stop Destination for All about Algae Fuels!

CleanTick is an online cleantech community from the promoters of Oilgae. Cleantick has  recently launched  an online algae fuels community which aims to bring about all the algae fuel professionals, researchers and enthusiasts at one place for focussed discussions, and interactions on  specific topics pertaining to algae fuels. Algae Fuels Community @ CleanTick provides you [...]

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[ More ] July 20th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Biodiesel-Ethanol, Algae-CO2-Capture, Algae-Cultivation-Marine, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Cost, Algae-Energy-Events, Algae-Energy-Investments, Algae-Energy-Products, Algae-Fuel, Algae-Fuel-Research, Algae-Patents, Algae-Photobioreactor, Algae-Strains, Algae-Wastewater-Treatment |

Philippines to Explore the Algae Fuel World

The Government of Philippines is investigating the possibilities of using algae as a biofuel feedstock in the country. The Department of Agriculture (DA) of Philippines is in talks with renowned algae experts regarding the same. The DA – Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) called together the algae fuel experts for a preliminary consultation meeting which [...]

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[ More ] June 20th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae oil production, Algae-Biodiesel |

Algae for Bioremediation and Biofuel Production – A Synergistic Approach

Algae have captured global attention for its biofuel prospects, carbon sequestration capabilities and bioremediation potentials. While it has diverse roles to play in the world of clean technology, a synergistic approach to couple more than one application is less practised. While, CO2 capture and biofuel production has been demonstrated in commercial scale with reasonable success, [...]

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[ More ] April 15th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Wastewater-Treatment |

Algae Biofuels Poised for 72% CAGR – Report

The Japanese nuclear disaster was an ill omen to many but not necessarily for the world of alternative energy. The disaster indeed has re-awoken the world to the possibilities of alternative energy. While natural gas (Liquefied Natural Gas) would receive an immediate boost, it is obvious that the green technologies would also re-emerge as favourites. [...]

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[ More ] April 15th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies |

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