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You are at: Oilgae Blog. Fort Collins, Colo.-based Solix Biofuels is producing a steady stream of algae-based biofuel from its six-month old demonstration facility, CEO Doug Henston told the Cleantech Group. Solix, which developed a process using photo-bioreactors to make algae-based biofuel and chemicals, is sending the biofuel to potential partners for testing, Henston said. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The New Mexico Environment Department has reached a settlement with Marathon Oil Corp. under which the Houston company will pay $5.1 million in environmental projects and penalties to resolve air quality violations alleged by the state at Marathon’s Indian Basin Gas Plant near Carlsbad. The environmental projects include $3.75 million [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Punjab-based Beckons Industries is planning to set up a bio-diesel plant using algae as a feedstock at Derabassi (Punjab) at an investment of Rs 600 million. The plant will be the first of its kind in this part of the region. For the purpose, the company has technological collaborative agreement [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. At Seattle’s Blue Marble Energy, chemists are cooking up a perfume made from the waste products of a local organic brewery, including rancid beer grains, green algae and a “sludge” consisting of 50,000 different kinds of bacteria. The grains replace petroleum in the production process making the perfume, called Eos, [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack have announced the selection of 19 integrated bio-refinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. California-based Sapphire Energy will receive a non-ARRA loan guarantee for up to $54.5 million through the [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Seambiotic, one of the oldest companies in algae, has signed a deal with China Guodian Corp. to build algae farms near power plants in that country. The first farm, opening in 2010 in Penglai, will cover 12 hectares and cost about $10 million. Seambiotic specializes in open “racetrack” ponds. In [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Foster Wheeler will provide engineering services to help PetroAlgae develop commercial solutions that will allow existing oil refineries to convert micro-crop biomass into green fuels, according to a memorandum of understanding signed by the companies. PetroAlgae believes the partnership will fully advance processes that will transform large quantities of biomass [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Truman State University held its 2nd Annual Bioenergy Conference earlier today. The conference addressed production and handling of bio-mass feedstock’s, algae oil production and utilization, as well as developments in bio-energy. Throughout the afternoon, several presentations were going on including hands on bio-energy demonstrations and exhibits at the University Farm. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its Ecofining process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green diesel fuel that will power vehicles at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark. UOP’s process technology converted oil from algae provided by Solazyme, a [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. A San Francisco company’s will tap into under-used large vats at Cherokee Pharmaceuticals plant in Riverside to open its first facility to make biodiesel fuel from algae oil. “Cherokee has under-utilized vats and our company hopes to use them to execute this grant to produce fuel from algae,” said Michael [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Washington State Algae Alliance, comprised of bioscience firm Targeted Growth, Inc. (TGI), Inventure Chemical (Inventure) and Washington State University (WSU), will benefit from $2 million in funding through WSU as part of the 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) was instrumental in [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. OriginOil Inc. of Los Angeles has been listed as one of the 50 hottest biofuel companies in the world. OriginOil was chosen out of a field of more than 1,400 companies worldwide, working in algae, ethanol, renewable diesel and biobutanol. Biofuels Digest, the most widely read daily biofuels newsletter in [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release The National Algae Association’s Mid-South Chapter workshop “Algae: Exploring Open Pond Production Opportunities, “ which brought top experts in open pond production together with catfish pond owners, investors and algaepreneurs to learn from each other and fast-track commercial-scale algae open pond production for energy, animal feedstock, organic fertilizer and [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. United States corporation Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has founded a subsidiary, BAL Chile, through which the company has already begun cultivating 100 hectares of seaweed on the island of Chiloé, with the aim of producing bio-fuel. BAL developed micro-organisms that trigger a fermentation process in the algae, which in turn [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. SRS’ Pilot Plant for algae oil extraction allows SRS to support clients who do not have their own extraction facilities by offering toll processing of large quantities of algae. SRS also has a benchtop system which allows for screening of small samples to identify the true oil (lipid) content of [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Florida-based PetroAlgae Inc. is collaborating with India’s largest company to develop algae strains and technology to suit Indian conditions. PetroAlgae’s subsidiary PA LLC recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Company Ltd. to build a pilot plant meant to demonstrate the commercial viability of the company’s technology. “A [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Solazyme, Inc., welcomes Michael S. Golembieski to the management team as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nutritionals. Golembieski will be responsible for growing Solazyme’s global food and feed ingredient business for renewable oils, purified microalgae, and microalgae extracts. Golembieski is a recognized growth and development expert in the [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Cleantech Open is a business competition created to find, fund and foster startup clean technology companies. Winnders were announced this week at the annual Cleantech Open Expo and Awards Gala in San Francisco. Dubbed the “Academy Awards of Clean Technology,” the event marks the grand finale of the Cleantech [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Marlborough bio-energy entrepreneur Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, has teamed up with a Chinese company Greenleaf Environmental of Sichuan. The companies are investigating sites in China for the Blenheim-based company’s patented approach to growing wild algae in sewage ponds to clean up the waste, and refine the algae for biodiesel. See more [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Minister of Energy Hon Gerry Brownlee will open the largest wastewater algae to bio-crude oil demonstration project in the world this week. The project combines NIWA’s scientific expertise on advanced wastewater treatment and algal production pond technology with Solray’s bio-crude oil conversion technology and is hosted by Christchurch City [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. A New Hampshire company, Simply Green Biofuels, hopes to use sewage as the feedstock for oil-producing algae. Simply Green currently re-purposes waste vegetable oil from restaurants into biodiesel. Processing oil-producing algae into fuel is just an extension of what they already do, which is why they have partnered with Clean [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release: PetroSun, Inc.announced a progress report on the firm’s algae and alternative energy programs. D.O.E. Integrated Biorefinery Proposal The D.O.E. Integrated Biorefinery oral presentation was completed on October 15th by the University of Arizona-led team that included Texas A&M, Los Alamos National Lab, Air Liquide, Lurgi and PetroSun. The [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Cereplast have been developing what it calls a breakthrough technology that will transform algae into bioplastics. The company aims to commercialise this development and launch a new family of algae-based resins that will complement its existing line of Compostables and Hybrid resins. Cereplast has initiated contact with several companies that [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release: 8th European Workshop “Biotechnology of Microalgae“ Date June 7-10, 2010announcement 10/2009call for papers Organized byIGV Institut für Getreideverarbeitung GmbHNuthetal, Germany University of West-Hungary,Faculty of Agricultural and Food SciencesMosonmagyaróvár, Hungary University of Applied SciencesLausitz, Senftenberg, Germany GENERAL INFORMATION We ask for your contribution to the success of the workshop, [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Ternion Bio Industries has selected EnviroKing™, a unique UV resistant clear PVC piping by Harvel® Plastics, Inc., as a key component in the manufacturer of its distinct, patent-pending photobioreactor system. Ternion Bio’s advanced photobioreactor technology captures carbon dioxide emissions and processes them to serve as the catalyst for the growth [...]
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