According to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist, algae could be put to use right away to remove nitrogen and phosphorus in livestock manure runoff. That could give resource managers a new eco-friendly option for reducing the level of agricultural  pollutants that contaminate water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Microbiologist Walter Mulbry works at the […]

Press Release National Algae Association Conference is less than a week away! Don’t miss exciting announcements by Dr. Brian Goodall, CEO of BioCentric Energy, and by Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, along with an update by Ron Pate on Recovery Act funding opportunities, in addition to new and innovative information and updates on cell research, […]

It was just about two months back that we started the Oilgae Club. The idea was to enable increased interactions between the thousands of visitors who access the Oilgae web site every week. (Oilgae gets about 2500 unique visitors every day). Since the launch, the Club has grown in strength and we have over 250 […]

Press Release Early Registration for April 29-30 Conference Ends This Week! Ron Pate of Sandia National Laboratories, who is currently on task assignment in Washington, DC with the Department of Energy’s Office of Biomass Program, will speak about ‘Algae Biofuels from the DOE/EERE Perspective’ at the NAA conference on April 29-30, and Kevin Drumm of SRS will provide an […]

Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. has confirmed that its FlowCAM imaging particle analyser will be a key component in a groundbreaking algae-to-biofuel research and commercial development project engineered and built by BioMarine Fuels Inc. The project focuses on the production of algal biomass in a patent-pending, closed photobioreactor system, or SolarMagnatro. The FlowCAM, which combines rapid […]

Press release Aquentium, Inc. announced that the company will be holding an open house on Tuesday April 20, from 5-8pm at the company offices in Perris, California to discuss their current waste-to-energy and algae biofuel alternative energy projects. Aquentium has recently signed a power purchase agreement to provide electricity to a municipality in the Shandong […]

Pond Biofuels plans to capture a cement plant’s carbon emissions to grow and harvest high-value biomass from algae, reports Inhabitat. The nutrient-rich algae will be used to fuel the cement plant’s kilns and truck fleet. Pond Biofuels plans to use some of that generated CO2 by growing algae next to Ontario’s St. Mary’s cement plant. […]

A report from cleantech research firm Greener Dawn on the sector says most algael biofuels firms working on products now expect to get 4,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel per acre. Joule’s Sims says his firm joule Biotechnologies is targeting annual output of 15,000 gallons per acre. “This is several orders of magnitude larger than […]

Press Release NAA Mid-South Chapter’s Huntsville, AL workshop entitled, “Algae: Mining Wastewater for Nutrients, Fuel, and Fertilizer” was well attended by a wide mix of attendees who came from all parts of the country. Presenters included Dr. Aron Stubbins of VCERC, Dr. Kim Jones, CEO of Alganomics, LLC, Dr. Michael Baran of CFA Enterprises, Hydromentia’s […]

Here is an interesting article comparing the potential of algae and nuclear energy for hydrogen production. Link: Hydrogen Production Using Nuclear Energy or Algae or Both

Press Release Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. of Yarmouth, Maine, USA, today announced that its FlowCAM® imaging particle analyzer will be a key component in a groundbreaking algae-to-biofuel research and commercial development project engineered and built by BioMarine Fuels, Inc. (BMF) of Gulf Breeze, Florida, with other research participants. The FlowCAM, which combines rapid digital imaging […]

World Biofuels Markets is the leading industry networking conference  and exhibition  where, each year, the leaders of the biofuels world convene to meet new customers, suppliers and partners and help drive innovation and business.  Over 4500 high calibre executives from 78 countries have attended WBM to date. The conference will start with a session on […]

Press Release Oil is already over $80 a barrel.  Do we need to wait for oil to go to back up to $150 a barrel or more again before we do something? Algaepreneurs are sprouting up all over the US to address this issue. They believe that algae is one solution to help the US get […]

Here is an interesting research article entitled “A hollow fiber membrane photo-bioreactor for CO2 sequestration from combustion gas coupled with wastewater treatment: a process engineering approach” by researchers from Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Abstract – In the presence of light, micro-algae convert CO2 and nutrients to biomass that […]

A recent patent filed by researchers from Wayne State University,Detroit, MI, US is on internal lighting for algae cultivation. The patent is on an enclosed, internally-lighted bioreactor apparatus comprising a main having an inlet and an outlet. This novel photobioreactor provides a method for enhancing the growth of a photosynthetic microorganism comprising: A carbon dioxide […]

A patent entitled ‘Raceways for Cultivating Algae’ filed by Hatcher et al., addresses the foregoing drawbacks of algae cultivation techniques through the provision of one or more precipitators along the raceway pond for cultivating algae. At these precipitators, the algal biomass produced in the raceway is precipitated and concentrated. The precipitators are cyclone precipitators positioned […]

National Algae Association conducted a workshop entitled “Algae: Mining Wastewater for Nutrients, Fuel, and Fertilizer” on Mar 26 at Huntsville, Alabama. The workshop benefited a number of wastewater managers, algae producers, algae companies, researchers, investors, entrepreuneurs, phycologists, marine researchers, limnologists and algae equipment suppliers. The attendees learned of algae’s tremendous potential as a cost-effective bioremediation […]

Laguna serves a population of 250,000 people, and it would require more than 100 acres of algae ponds to purify the entire waste stream of nitrates. On May 10, the city’s Laguna Wastewater Treatment Plant will inaugurate a small pilot project that relies on native algae and marsh plants to purify sewage and produce methane. […]

Algenol BioFuels, a manufacturer of algae-to-ethanol fuels, leased 43,100 square feet of office and warehouse space and an adjacent 40 acres of industrial land at Alico Road Business Park on Lee Road just north of Alico Road in Fort Myers. Algenol will headquarter its new research and development facility out of the properties within the […]

Along with the Carbon Trust, nine research institutions in the UK will look at ways of cultivating billions of litres of biofuel generated from algae. Newcastle University is hosting one of the main research projects, looking at the generation and extraction of the fuel. Dr Adam Harvey, from the university’s School of Chemical Engineering and […]

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announce plans to hold an intensive week long facilitated workshop – an “Ideas Lab” – in California later this year, to bring together leading researchers across all disciplines to foster new ideas, collaborations and proposals on novel biochemical mechanisms to […]

Solarvest is committed to the development of sustainable and renewable energy sources to meet growing energy demands and environmental challenges. Solarvest’s intellectual property is a biologically-based hydrogen producing technology, which provides a method for controlling key genes in algae resulting in the continuous production of hydrogen gas. Solarvest’s bio-energy production system utilizes light and carbon […]

Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith, UMBC President Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, and Maryland Clean Energy Center Executive Director Kathy Magruder  officially opened Maryland’s first Clean Energy Technology Incubator at UMBC. Baltimore County is providing a $75,000 grant over two years through its Department of Economic Development to partially fund an Entrepreneur in Residence at the incubator. […]

An interesting article from biomass magazine which compares the open pond technology with closed bioreactors. A few years ago, aircraft manufacturer Boeing hired Bioalgene to survey indigenous strains of algae—regional strains that grow fast and produce many lipids—in the Northwest U.S., according to Bioalgene CEO Stan Barnes. The company has leased a decommissioned wastewater plant […]

The tiny town of Reynolds had big plans when Gov. Mitch Daniels touted it in 2005 as the location of BioTown USA, the state’s first project to make a community produce enough energy to become self-sufficient. But progress has been slow in the five years since in the town about 25 miles north of Lafayette. […]