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Algal Biomass Organisation (ABO), a non-profit organization which promotes the development of algae market, has recently released a statement stating that the US Navy has planned to purchase 450,000 gallons of drop-in biofuels, with 100,000 of those made from algal oils produced by ABO member Solazyme, Inc. Mary Rosenthal, executive director of the ABO strongly [...]
World Wide Carbon Credits Limited (WWCC), a hong-kong based private equity investor, in collaboration with a team at Australia’s Flinders University have successfully found the gene in algae responsible for the production of high chain hydrocarbons.In August 2011, WWCC patented the new algae’s genetic sequence in the US and Australia and are currently in the process [...]
Sapphire Energy, an algae fuels company, based out of Mexico, has secured loan from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build and operate a $135 million integrated algal biorefinery (IABR) in Columbus. This refinery aims to produce about 100 barrrels of algae oil / day. The IABR will be capable of producing 100 barrels of refined [...]
Here is an interesting article which deals with a Green Recovery strategy to convert membrane lipids into fatty acids for economical and environmentally sustainable biofuel production. http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6905.full?sid=6d498fcf-5e5c-43f4-8d8a-c54c60a2e029 Share this article Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL) selects Pacific Advanced Civil Engineering, Inc. (PACE) of Fountain Valley, California, to fast-track the rollout of its line of Single Step Extraction(TM) systems for the algal oil extraction, in response to immediate customer demand.PACE will help OriginOil engineer the Tarong systems, and quickly turn around a standard OriginOil commercial offering on modular [...]
A report from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that up to 17 percent of the United States’ imported oil for transportation could be replaced with American-grown biofuels from algae. http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2011/05/17/innovation-los-alamos-unlocking-new-source-domestic-oil-algae Share this article Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
This week more than 1200 delegates from several different stakeholders have gathered in Rotterdam for Europe’s largest biofuels conference, the world biofuels markets. Tuesday, one of eight sessions was dedicated to sustainability, certification and so-called indirect land use change (ILUC). Another was dedicated to algae. Bellona’s Brussels office, Bellona Europa was present at both sessions. [...]
Algae.Tec, an advanced biofuels company with a high-yield enclosed algae growth and harvesting system – the McConchie-Stroud System – announced today the opening of the Algae Development & Manufacturing Centre in Atlanta, Georgia where the photo-bioreactors will be assembled for shipping around the world. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/16/prweb5173854.DTL#ixzz1HKP5m0VV Share this article Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google [...]
Biofuels made from algae can be produced in a way that make this energy source cost-competitive with crude oil by increasing the amount of energy algae stores as fat, according to early research from VG Energy, an alternative energy and agricultural biotech company. The resulting biodiesel and algae-based jet fuels could be produced at a cost [...]
Pilot Plant Studies have shown that Algae.Tec could produce energy-rich materials from algae at the equivalent of less than $40 a barrel, a steep drop from current crude oil prices of more than $100 a barrel and comparable to the cheapest price we’ve seen for crude, which bottomed out at $35 a barrel in 2009. [...]
So far, biobutanol production is focused on using edible feedstocks such as beets, corn starch, and sugarcane. Now James Liao, a biomolecular engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, has developed two routes to liberate butanol from its dependence on food crops. Liao, who has a track record for commercializing innovative biofuels processes, has [...]
The following press release was given by 1st BiobasedChemAsia Summit-2011 1st BiobasedChemAsia Summit Launches Exclusive White Paper as a Complimentary Download CMT unveils an exclusive white paper on “Biobased Chemicals: Technology, Economics and Markets; produced in collaboration with Dr Bhima Vijayendran, Senior Research Leader & Chief Research Officer at Battelle. To be held on 14-15 [...]
James Liao, professor of chemical and bimolecular engineering at UCLA has developed a new strategy of using algal proteins as biofuel feedstock instead of lipids. Although the team has already licensed the technology, they plan to continue the work, through possible funding by the licensee, until it is time to hand over the process. For [...]
Researchers at the University of California have successfully engineered certain microbes to produce biofuels. The work concentrated on tricking microbes into eating protein and using the resulting energy to generate specific proteins that can be refined into fuel, the researchers explained. This research is the first attempt to utilize protein as a carbon source for [...]
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 U.S. EPA has scheduled an independent peer review meeting for March 14 to review the draft report “Biofuels and the Environment: First Triennial Report to Congress,” it is preparing for Congress which will detail the current and potential future environmental impacts associated with biofuel production. The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act requires the [...]
Keystone Symposium on Biofuels conference opens at Bernama, Singapore on March 5 where over 30 international experts on biofuels, global scientists and policy makers coverge to share insights and solutions. See more at http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=567721 Share this article Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
The National Algae Association has announced speakers for its Algae Commercialization, Research and Business Networking Workshop on March 28, 2011. The workshop, which is being held at Goodwin Proctor’s offices in Manhattan, will highlight updates in the quest to commercialize algae production. With the recent admissions that most of the algae research hurdles have been [...]
OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL) has agreed to participate in a pilot scale algae project to be funded by the Mexican government. The project will demonstrate industrial algae production, paving the way for substantial investment by the Mexican government in large-scale jet fuels production. Mexico’s ‘Manhattan Project’ is directed towards producing 1% of the nation’s jet fuel [...]
There is a growing interest in algae biofuel in recent years and algae can be said to hold the future for biofuel industry. They have several advantages over other biofuels- high yield from fewer resources, limited land requirements, carbon capture utilities and ease of manipulation and optimization of growth conditions, abundant strain availability etc. Many [...]
A new algae fuel company by name – Muradel Pty has joined the algae fuel race. This company is a joint venture between Murdoch University, Adelaide Research and SQC Pty. This company has been started to make algae fuels a reality in Australia taking into the advantage the climatic conditions of Australia. The company plans [...]
Oilgae has released the latest update of its Comprehensive Oilgae Report and I thought I’d provide you with details of the report and the key takeaways from the report for your reference. As you might already know, the Comprehensive Oilgae Report is the most detailed report covering all the critical aspects of algae biofuels –strain [...]
Following the previous post (http://www.oilgae.com/blog/2010/09/aeration-in-a-photobioreactor.html), here is an analysis of the various aerator designs: 1. Ring or Orifice sparger The stirred tank and flat-plate photobioreactors are generally equipped with a ring sparger for aeration. Features & Benefits • Orifice or ring sparger is essentially a perforated pipe made of a perforated metal tube, a porous [...]
I started yet another interesting day at office by opening the archives of newsletters and went through all the organized data stored in its annals. I came across some very useful data dealing with various aspects of aeration in a photobioreactor and felt it would be very insensitive of me not to share it with [...]
An interesting article written by Narsi of Oilgae providing some cool ideas for the algae fuel enthusiasts who are interested in digging up the possibilities to venture into this field. An algae biofuel specialist’s job today is not exactly easy, whether she/he is in R&D, marketing or investing. So I thought, why not have a [...]
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