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You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Oilgae Team had an excellent opportunity a couple of weeks back when we visited Bangalore and the Nualgi team that has done awesome work in the field of sewage pond treatment using algae. The idea sounds simple once you heard it; in fact you would be led to wonder [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Year 10 student Leatham Landon-Lane’s project investigating the economics and productivity of wild algae fuel took out the best exhibit prize at the Marlborough Lines Science and Technology Fair yesterday. Leatham used wild algae from a reservoir at his Waihopai Valley home to test biofuel company claims that 100,000 gallons [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. “Under a Space Act Agreement, NASA is partnering with Seambiotic USA to model growth processes for microalgae for use as aviation biofuel feedstock,” said Ami Ben-Amotz, chief scientific adviser to Israeli-based Seambiotic Ltd. One of SGI’s achievements has been in engineering algal strains that produce lipids in a continuous process [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The algae is grown in ponds and produced at a SunEco pilot plant in Chino, California. The company has been working on a proprietary process for making the oil for more than five years, and has scaled it up from beakers to barrels, according to Dan Gautschi, chairman and CEO. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Seambiotic, a global leader in the development and production of marine microalgae for the nutraceutical and biofuel industries, has announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Seambiotic USA, has entered into an agreement with NASA Glenn Research Center to develop an on-going collaborative R&D program for optimization of open-pond microalgae growth processes. [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. 15 year old Javier Fernández-Han invented a truly innovative solution to meeting the basic needs of many of the world’s poor, and won Ashoka’s Invent Your World Challenge with his algae energy system, called VERSATILE. His holistic approach uses an efficient, modular system to meet multiple needs.The basis of Javier’s [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. BlueFire Ethanol, which has been trying to produce ethanol out of landfill waste, is sending sugars to Solazyme for algae fuel testing which grows their algae by feeding them with sugars in fermentation vats. BlueFire has had trouble getting its own ethanol plant off the ground, but it does have [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Here is an excellent update of companies working in algae energy from the April issue of the Greentech Innovations Report.source By the way, have you subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?; How about joining the Oilgae mailing list?; and our forum to discuss on with others?
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Hawaii is big on algae, guess it is next only to San Diego! Hawai’i has some world-class research teams, including HR BioPetroleum, led by Barry Raleigh and Mark Huntley, in a partnership with Shell Oil; Pacific BioEnergy, led by Paul Zorner and comprising Kamehameha Schools, Grove Farm and Maui Land; [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. OriginOil Inc. announced that it has signed a Cooperative Agreement with The United States Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The multi-phase research program will focus on validation and commercial scaling of the company’s technology in the production of algae-based fuels. The initial phase, which starts immediately, will focus [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. “The initiative includes San Diego’s growing mini-cluster of algae-based biofuels startups” Halperin says “the effort also plans to rely on a recent macro-economic study on “mega-region” economic development that identifies ways in which groups in San Diego and Imperial Counties can collaborate” Imperial County, which borders Mexico between San Diego [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Kayaletu Makasi lives on a pretty little smallholding on the road to Chintsa. He has 17 cows, three pigs and a gaggle of chickens. He feeds their manure (about 20 litres a week) into a small digester and in return he gets an unlimited supply of free fuel, highly nutritious [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. An expert in algae research and genetic engineering who heads the BGU’s Landau Family Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory, disclosed that large-scale algae production is not without its challenges: Some of the major problems associated with are biological—including oxygen control and strain stability. Algae adapt to conditions, and producers need to make [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. NC State Professor of Engineering Bill Roberts says “What we’re trying to do is make a fuel that looks just like the petroleum derived fuel we’re trying to replace.” Roberts and his colleagues are working on a multi-step catalytic process that mimics petroleum on the molecular level. It’s called Centia.It [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Marine algae good for green fuel Scientists see marine algae as the most promising bet for a green fuel that would help ease the dependence on fossil fuel and powervehicles of the future. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Californa San Diego (UCSD), scientists along with their counterparts from its [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. 5. Biodiesel Of all the alternative fuels, biodiesel is the most susceptible to the cold. In fact, even petroleum diesel is susceptible to the cold — anti-gel additives are common in the winter, as well as blending with kerosene or even gasoline when it gets really cold. 4. Ethanol In [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil supplier, will today voice its support for the development of alternative energy to complement fossil fuels. Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, is expected to tell a meeting of energy ministers hosted by Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, that an oil price of $75 [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The coal industry’s exciting advertisements that claim that they’ve made coal into a clean source of power have gone unquestioned until now. The coal industry advertisements actually showed a 3D rendering of a zero-emissions coal plant that had already been scrapped because of skyrocketing costs.There are several gigawatts of solar [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. A new technology allows for the combustion of biodiesel crude glycerol in standard diesel-engined Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generators. It has been made commercially available on 5- Dec by UK based Aquafuel Research Limited. The technology allows biodiesel producers to generate their own electrical power, and use the waste [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. China’s cabinet on Friday released details of a fuel tax reform that would raise taxes for gasoline and diesel while eliminating other fees for drivers. The plan, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, would raise the tax on gasoline to one yuan (14 cents US) per litre from the current [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. This report will present an overview of the use of bioresources in the 21st century, for the manufacture of major chemical and material products. The book will cover resources, chemical composition of biomass, key factors affecting composition, utilization of wastes, extraction technologies, controlled pyrolysis, fermentation, platform molecules, green chemical technologies [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. EIN News has announced the launch of a new alternative energy website providing in-depth news on the biofuel industry. Biofuel Industry Today Scans more than 35,000 news sections from over 5,000 newspapers and online publications and gives 80,000 new articles every 24 hours.http://biofuels.einnews.com/about.php By the way, have you subscribed to [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. The Biorefinery Assistance Program is designed to promote the development of new and emerging technologies for the production of advanced biofuels. The Biorefinery Assistance Program provides loan guarantees for the development, construction and retrofitting of viable commercial-scale biorefineries producing advanced biofuels. The maximum loan guarantee is $250 million per project [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. Taiwanese researchers yesterday unveiled a bacterium capable of treating waste water while generating weak electricity. Microbiologists at the National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) claimed the new bacterium species, Shewanella decolorationis NTOU1, can disintegrate various organic pollutants and organic acids, including azo compounds and triphrnyl methanes dyes, while converting the chemicals [...]
You are at: Oilgae Blog. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan,A Latin America Biofuel Technology Providers, finds that the Argentinean market had an installed capacity of around 600.000 tons of feedstock in 2007 and estimates this to reach 1.2 million in 2008. Latin America’s scientific sophistication in feedstock production makes it an attractive destination to [...]
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