A new deal between Cellana, a California-based maker of algae-based products, and Israel’s Galil Algae Cooperative Agriculture Society Limited could have interesting implications for biodiesel (possibly a negative implication here) and for nutraceuticals (really positive here). This Cellana news release says the partnership looks to combine the industrial qualities of Cellana’s ReNew™ Algae – high-value […]

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In a collaborative research project with the US Dept of Agriculture Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (USDA-PBARC) and Rivertop Solutions, a Hawaii-based system engineering and economic development firm, Hawaiian company BioTork has attempted convert agricultural by-products into high value oils with the help of microbes including algae. The company has used unmarketable Hawaiian papayas to […]

Found this article (http://www.cleantick.com/users/amandaleah/pages/high-value-end-products-from-algae)  really interesting ! This page discusses  about  what some algae fuel companies are doing to branch out beyond biofuels and finding revenue sources in pharmaceuticals, food products and chemicals and other high value products. The potential of each of these products and their market sizes have been highlighted in this article […]

A team of researchers from the Technological Institute of Canarias (ITC) have been able to produce new foods and enrich others, generate biodiesel and treat waste water with some microalgae and its derivatives.Microalgae are a source of “good” fatty acids, especially omega 3 and 6 of carotenoids and some may also serve for the food […]

Algae could change the way European animal feed manufacturers think about their industry in the near future, it has been claimed. Commercially-grown algae is widely expected to see an increase in demand as an alternative food source, because of its high nutritional value as a ratio of production volume. A conference held this weekend in […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Bioalgal Marine, an Almeria University spin-off company specialised in cultivating and integral usage of microalgae has developed a new fertiliser manufactured from a microalga called Spirulina, called Algafert. This natural fertiliser visibly enhances plants’ roots and resistance The Super Formula to Fight Aging – Its Name is Astaxanthin -Know more […]

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 […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The rise in biodiesel production over the last decade means that the market can no longer absorb all the extra glycerol. Biodiesel producers must find alternative means for disposing of crude glycerol, which is prohibitively expensive to purify for industry use. Wen and his colleagues have developed a novel fermentation […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Research into algae-made biofuels has been active in the last 3 to 5 years, but it would take another 10 to 15 years to turn laboratory experiments into industrial-scale production, said Raffaello Garofalo, executive director of the European Algae Biomass Association. Making biodiesel from algae costs at least 10 to […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Loy Yang Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with MBD Energy, a private Melbourne company whose algae-based technology will allow the brown-coal power station to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide. The technology provides an alternative to carbon capture and sequestration for all coal-fired power stations in Australia, and […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Aquatic Energy, Louisiana has announced that it is ready to expand its pilot scale plant into an 30-acre demonstration project using the company’s open pond system, which is achieving yields on 2500 gallons per acre without an external CO2 source. The expansion is expected to produce about 1.5 tons per […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. PetroSun, Inc. announced that PetroSun BioFuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary, and Biomass Partners presented an Aquaculture Algae to Algal Oil Program at the Mississippi Biomass Council meeting held November 5th in Jackson, Mississippi. PetroSun BioFuels and Biomass Partners have identified in excess of 80,000 acres of catfish ponds within the state […]

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