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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 |

Contamination in Open ponds for Algae Cultivation

Adapted from – Algae Fuels Community @ CleanTick – http://www.cleantick.com/users/franc/pages/challenges-in-algae-fuel-commercialisation One of the issues that is being encountered in open pond-algal cultivation is the contamination. Contamination of ponds can be a result of:  a)  Infiltration from local algae and other organisms  b) Dust particles, leaves and other airborne materials For instance, although the algal species [...]

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[ More ] August 5th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond |

Researchers Develop Warning System for Early Detection of Algae Mass Culture Contaminations

Researchers at the Arizona Center for Algal Technology and Innovation (AzCATI) are developing an empirical model for assessment and prediction of potential impact of contaminations on overall algal culture stability and biomass production potential. They are developing a rapid, sensitive monitoring and an early warning system with the help of state-of-the-art bio-imaging and DNA fingerprinting [...]

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[ More ] April 22nd, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Biofuel, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond |

Researchers Asses the Factors that Influence Algal Mass Culture Failure

Algae..! They are the sturdiest species when you want to get rid of them and the weakest species when you try to mass culture it for producing biofuels. Of many culprit organisms that may result in the deterioration of algal culture and biomass yield, grazing zooplankton or predators, often are responsible for frequent culture ‘crashes’ [...]

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[ More ] April 19th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond |

Paddlewheels and their Role in Algae Fuels

Open ponds, typically raceway ponds in which algae are grown, require some form of mixing to maintain cells in suspension, to prevent thermal stratification, and to disperse nutrients. Hence, for a proper mixing of the ponds, paddle wheels are used. Paddlewheels consist of simple, partial depth blades and high-speed rotors. With paddlewheels providing the flow, [...]

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[ More ] September 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae, algae oil production, Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Equipments |

Photoautotrophic Cultivation- Open ponds Vs Photobioreactors.

Algae-cultivation on a whole faces several challenges. There are two methods of growing algae -  one is the photoautotrophic cultivation  and the other is the  heterotrophic cultivation. Photoautotrophic cultivation as the name suggests is cultivating algae in the presence of light – the light can be either freely available sunlight or artificially provided light.  Heterotrophic [...]

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[ More ] August 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Photobioreactor |

Algae Fuels- Emerging Opportunity for India

When algae are grown they should be provided the best possible conditions to achieve their growth potential. I was earlier a bit skeptical about growing algae in open-ponds. However, when I visualize a country such as India – a few states in India have ample of land, sunshine throughout the year and easy access to [...]

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[ More ] August 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond |

ALGAE-X Announces Mobile Tank Cleaning System

Algae-X is expanding their line of Tank Cleaning & Fuel Restoration Systems with a new model the “MTC 500-AFR”. This industrial, heavy duty system is equipped with an Adjustable Flow Rate pump, providing Algae-X tank cleaning and fuel maintenance companies more flexibility to service a wider range of tank sizes with one machine. The new [...]

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[ More ] February 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond |

LiveFuels Announced a Shift in its Business Plan

You are at: Oilgae Blog. LiveFuels recently announced a shift in its business plan – moving from algae fuel company to fish aquaculturist/fish oil/biofuel/co-products supplier. To date, the company has largely discussed raising different species of algae in open ponds to produce fuels. Today, it stated that it will grow algae, but then let filter-feeding [...]

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[ More ] September 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Meal |

Aurora Biofuels Tries to Double Oil Production from Algae

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Aurora Biofuels says it has a species of algae that breeds like a rabbit. The Alameda, Calif.-based company has identified and optimized a genetic pathway in a species of wild algae that effectively turbocharges the growth and breeding cycle of the single-celled creature. As a result, the company says it [...]

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[ More ] August 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Oil-Yield |

LiveFuels Hopes its Algae Biofuel Ready for Launch by 2010

You are at: Oilgae Blog. LiveFuels CEO Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones describes her San Carlos, Calif.-based company’s process as ‘we cook them and squeeze them’ for turning algae-fed fish into oil for fuel using heat and high pressure. It’s a gruesome way of harvesting pond scum than the mechanical equipment employed by other startups working on algal [...]

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[ More ] August 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Investments |

Louisiana is Conducive for Algae Fuel Growth – Feasibility Report on Louisiana

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Louisiana Economic Development in partnership with KEMA Inc. recently released a feasibility report on Louisiana’s commercial prospect for algae-to-energy ventures, in response to the growing need for alternative feed stocks in the renewable fuels industry. The report demonstrates that Louisiana offers several advantages for algae industry development, including abundance of [...]

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[ More ] August 4th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-CO2-Capture, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Cultivation-Sewage, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Texas Researchers are Working on Saltwater Algae for Biofuel Production

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Texas researchers are working to transform algae fuel into a commercially competitive process. Both Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin are deeply involved in algae research, and private corporations in Texas also are exploring its potential. Texas A&M is producing oil-rich algae at a test facility just [...]

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[ More ] June 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Strains |

Bionavitas Devised a Way to Grow Algae Thick Within Ponds

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Bionavitas, a Redmond-based company developing ways to grow algae to create biofuels, nutritional supplements and an environmentally friendly way to clean up pollution.Bionavitas is self-funded by its founders, and several angel investors also have provided funding.The company’s leaders say they are looking for outside investors — including venture capitalists — [...]

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[ More ] May 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Midwest Research Institute Advances Algal Biofuels Research Utilizing Open and Closed Bioreactors

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Just five months after announcing the creation of a state-of-the-art Center for Integrated Algal Research, Midwest Research Institute (MRI) has installed and activated two technically distinct bioreactor technologies to accelerate the Institute’s pursuits in algae research. MRI recently activated an open pond “raceway” cultivation system at its laboratory in Palm [...]

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[ More ] April 21st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-CO2-Capture, Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Fuel-Research, Algae-Photobioreactor |

Catfish Farmers Becoming Landlords of Algae

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company wants to convert Barret’s catfish ponds into an algae farm to produce alternative fuel, paying the owner of B&B Fish Farm thousands of dollars to baby-sit the new and unusual crop. Barret and Jordan have agreed to lease their old catfish ponds to PetroSun to grow [...]

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[ More ] March 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond |

Aurora Biofuels Completes Algae Trial, Appoints CEO

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Aurora Biofuels announced this week it had completed a successful trial of growing algae for biofuels and appointed former Royal Dutch Shell executive Robert Walsh as CEO. Aurora has been growing algae in two outdoor ponds (each roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool) in Florida for the past [...]

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[ More ] March 7th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Ingrepro Algae Production Facility in Netherlands

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Set amid the placid fields and farmland in Borculo, in the eastern part of the Netherlands, a 21,500 square foot pool is rapidly turning green with Algae in Ingrepro’s Algae production facility. The algae is harvested and processed and the carbon exhaust from the steam engine used to dry the [...]

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[ More ] March 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond |

Light Immersion Technology from Bionavitas to Increase Algae Yields

You are at: Oilgae Blog. A technology developed to increase commercially viable and scaleable algae yields was lauched recently by Bionavitas, Inc. The process, Light Immersion Technology™, involves immersing the light source, natural or artifical, in the algae culture which, says the company, produces an order of magnitude more algae biomass than existing growth methods. [...]

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[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Aurora Biofuels Raises $20M for Algae to Biofuels

You are at: Oilgae Blog. This is a June 2008 news item, but I felt it could be interesting. Aurora Biofuels, an algae-to-biodiesel startup, said that it’s raised a second round of funding of $20 million; Oak Investment Partners, Gabriel Venture Partners and Noventi were included in the round. Developed at the University of California [...]

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[ More ] November 1st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Skip Kemp, instructor of CCC’s aquaculture program use Bogue Sound for algae cultivation

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Mr. Kemp and his students start the process of creating “oilgae” by collecting phytoplankton (microscopic algae) from Bogue Sound, then growing it in special ponds. As the water is pumped from the sound into the ponds, a filter separates the phytoplankton from other microscopic animals that would eat it. The [...]

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[ More ] October 29th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Harvesting |

Biotechnology of algal biomass production: review of outdoor mass culture systems

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Do you know that oil derived from algae is an exciting renewable fuel possibility? – see Oilgae for more. Biotechnology of algal biomass production: a review of systems for outdoor mass culture Journal – Journal of Applied PhycologyPublisher – Springer NetherlandsIssue – [...]

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[ More ] February 25th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Photobioreactor |

Biotechnology of algal biomass production: a review of systems for outdoor mass culture

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Do you know that oil derived from algae is an exciting renewable fuel possibility? – see Oilgae for more. Biotechnology of algal biomass production: a review of systems for outdoor mass culture Journal – Journal of Applied PhycologyPublisher – Springer NetherlandsIssue – [...]

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[ More ] February 22nd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Photobioreactor |

Biotechnology of algal biomass production: review of outdoor mass culture systems

You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. Do you know that oil derived from algae is an exciting renewable fuel possibility? – see Oilgae for more. Biotechnology of algal biomass production: a review of systems for outdoor mass culture Journal – Journal of Applied PhycologyPublisher – Springer NetherlandsSubject – [...]

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[ More ] February 21st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Photobioreactor |

Algal sludge turns to fuel in Christchurch, New Zealand

You are at: Oilgae Blog, see:Oilgae Home – Oil & Biodiesel from Algae Resources Algal sludge turns to fuel By Beck Eleven @ Stuff.co.nz | Tuesday, 19 December 2006 A team of Christchurch scientists and engineers will lighten the load on the environment by making fuel from algae growing in the Bromley oxidation ponds. Excerpts: [...]

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[ More ] January 2nd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Cultivation-Open-Pond, Algae-Fuel-Research |

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