As there is a growing concern for environmental, many countries are actively supporting the projects on renewable energy. The United States of America is no exception. Algae biofuels are getting considerable recognition in the US these days. No wonder the US president supports algae based biofuels as an alternative to the conventional fossil fuels. Interestingly […]

Algae Bioenergy Solutions (ABS), LLC, a Georgia-based algae-to-fuel company is planning to start its algae biofuel production the beginning of July. Chuck Pardue, the president of the parent company Green Valley Biofuels has announced that the algae project will open on July 15 at its Dixon Airline Road facility. According to Pardue the location will […]

Now, it’s possible to get an all-in-one controlled bioreactor in half the price of a traditional bioreactor! Got excited? Cole-Parmer, a supplier of laboratory and industrial fluid handling products, instrumentation, and equipments has introduced a new bioreactor named IKA BR 10 Bioreactor. The bioreactor is best suited for the cultivation of photosynthetic organisms like algae, […]

VG Energy’s Lipid Enhancement Technology receives independent confirmation from BioProcess Algae, LLC, whose initial laboratory studies have verified the increase in yields of algae oils following treatment with VG Energy’s Metabolic Disruption Technology (MDT) additives. These test studies makes possible the use of VG’s proprietary technology in the large-scale commercial production of biofuels as well […]

The Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines commended the ASTM International Committee on Petroleum Products and Lubricants for approving a new jet fuel specification that will further enable the use of sustainable alternative fuels in aviation. According to ATA, airlines have gained technical approval to […]

Black River Plant, a sewage treatment plant in Baltimore City burns methane from sewage to generate electricity. Now an agreement has been approved by the Board of Estimates on the use of CO2 from the waste treatment plant for the cultivation of algae for the production of biofuels. Know All about Algae-based Waste Water Treatment […]

Now it’s very simple to calculate the algae production. Yes! There’s an app even for calculating the algae oil production. The Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M has a free “Algae Production Conversion Calculator” to help with producing algae crops. The app is free via the iTunes app store. There is also a […]

Independence Bio-Products (IBP) has received a patent for a low-cost open-pond system for producing algae for biofuels and animal feeds system year-round, regardless of climate or season. IBP’s system uses heat recovered from power plants and other manufacturing facilities to maintain water temperatures within precise temperature ranges that optimize algae production. The patent provides description […]

Algae-based CO2 capture and the subsequent production of biofuels is a practicable way of reducing the emission of the green house gas in the atmosphere. Professor Michael Aresta, a specialist in CO2 utilization studies, at the sustainable research conference in Barcelona, stated that CO2 capture could be used in a far better way for the […]

Scientists at National Research Council Canada are looking for the ways for growing algae on an industrial scale to produce aviation fuels. According to Patrick McGinn, the project lead, algae-based biofuel technologies hold a great promise for their use in aviation industry. He added that though algae are produced in a large scale in some […]

The European Society of Microalgal Biotechnology (ESMB), the DLG e.V. (German Agricultural Society) and DLG BENELUX from the Netherlands organize the 5th International Algae Congress in Berlin on December 1-2, 2011. There will be interactive presentations on Aquatic Biomass BioFuels & By-products Production Systems Scale & Economics BioRefinery Concepts Genetic Engineering vs. Strain Collection Sustainable […]

A pilot scale algae facility in Olgergen, Holland is looking for ways to use algae cultivation as a means to treat wastewater. The project, which is being developed by Ingrepro Renewables, is accommodated in Waterstromen bv, a water treatment facility that treats municipal wastewater and wastewater sourced from a nearby potato processing plant. Richard Haarhuis, […]

Now, Solazyme has become the world’s first billion-dollar algae fuel maker with a whooping 15% increase in its issue price on its stock market debut. The company is also under development agreement with Quantas to pursue a potential algae-based jet fuel. It is noteworthy to mention that though the algae based fuel developing technologies are […]

Algae fuel experiment of two students is chosen to be carried out aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Kyle Chapo and Isaac Wells, two students from the Nebraska-based Lincoln Zoo School, a science focus program, will carry out experiments on algae oil production, simultaneously astronauts will be doing the same aboard Atlantis. The experiment was chosen […]

“Algae are not interested in producing hydrogen, but we persuade them to do it”, say researchers at MIT. Scientists at MIT, Tel Aviv University and US NREL scientists claim that they have found a way to use algae to produce four times more hydrogen than usual. Many algae use sunlight and water to produce hydrogen, […]

An international project on algal biofuels named, BIOfuel From Algae Technologies (BIOFAT) is launched. The project is supported by nine partners based in seven countries and the goal is to show that ethanol, biodiesel and Bioproducts all could be produced at large scale from algae. Using the algorefinery – a facility that can produce high-value […]

Extreme Biodiesel, a wholly owned subsidiary of BookMerge Technology, an alternative fuel and recycling company, has contracted with an Algae Oil Company to produce biodiesel from algae oil for a “million mile test” for a major trucking company. Extreme Biodiesel has been working with the Algae Oil Company for two years on establishing procedures for […]

OriginOil, Inc. has received a firm order for a large-scale algae extraction system from MBD Energy, Ltd. The order follows recent collaborative trials of OriginOil’s equipment focused on optimizing capacity to handle large volumes of algae continuously. The new system on order is one of the largest next-generation extraction systems of its kind in the […]

About a month ago, a ninth-grader in Russia won an award for her research project on photobioreactor design for algae cultivation. And this is the time for an eleventh grader. Moaaz Rashad, a Grade 11 student at Regina’s Huda School in, Ontario, Canada won a 2011 Manning Innovation Achievement Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair. […]

Here is a Press Release from Fluid Imaging Technologies regarding the Memorandum of Understanding with BARD Holding Inc. FLUID IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ENTERS INTO A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH ALGAE TO BIOFUEL TECHNOLOGY FIRM BARD HOLDING, INC. FOR STRATEGIC SUPPLY PARTNERSHIP Yarmouth, ME –     Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. of Yarmouth, Maine, USA, today […]

Another conference in the CMT event series! With the idea of tracking the algae industry developments down under, CMT is organizing the Algae World Australia on August 16-17, 2011 in Queensland, Australia. Australia is attracting many algae fuel researchers and investors, as a result many projects are in force in the country, these days, and […]

Attractive Algae Extraction Technologies – An Overview by Biofuels Digest Popular biofuels magazine Biofuels Digest has made an analysis on algae extraction technologies of various companies and listed 10 attractive ones. As extraction cost is one of the barriers towards commercialization, this analysis would be of useful in identifying viable algae extraction technologies. Here is […]

With the aim of pursuing algae fuel commercialization dream, Margaret McCormick, the Chief Operations Officer of Targeted Growth, a Seattle-based biotechnology company, has spun off a new company from Targeted Growth, called Matrix Genetics. She is now the CEO of Matrix Genetics. The company will focus on the genetic engineering of single-celled algae for commercial […]

With a mission of fast tracking commercialization of fuels to reduce US dependency on foreign oil and to create jobs in the US by putting algae researchers, algae growers, farmers and producers, and equipment manufacturers together, National Algae Association (NAA) has recently launched a page on Commercial Opportunities in its website. According to NAA’s Executive […]

Solazyme, Inc. announced the estimated share price for its IPO in the Nasdaq Global Market, raising its offering to $183.5 million, almost double the figure filed in March. The company tries to sell about 10 million shares @ $15 to $17 a share. If Solazyme succeeds in this, it would give the company a market […]