A Kiwi startup company that turns algae into bio-fuel will get North American funding to help in a trial project to use algae to capture carbon dioxide from manufacturing exhaust stacks. Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation has an agreement to work with UOP, formerly Universal Oil Products, which specialises in technology to refine fuels and is part […]

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today urged Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to extend tax code parity to algae-based biofuels as soon as possible. BIO specifically supported the language in the Algae-based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act (S. 1250/H.R. 4168), sponsored by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Rep. […]

Biology can lead to changes in how the planet is powered, Synthetic Genomics CEO, Dr. J. Craig Ventor, told CNBC. Ventor and his company have been collecting genomes around the world in search of a next-generation energy source, most notably algae-converted energy. Venter estimates a 10-year timeframe before algae conversion can be produced on a […]

The U.S. Congress is coming under increased lobbying pressure from the Algal Biomass Organization, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. In a statement Thursday, ABO called on Congress to provide tax parity to algae biofuels and make incentives available to the […]

UOP, a Honeywell ( HON) company, announced that it has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy for a project to demonstrate technology to capture carbon dioxide and produce algae for use in biofuel and energy production. The funding will be used for the design of a demonstration system […]

A company based in Clear Lake is turning waste and algae into renewable fuels. Bud Jermeland, 51, president of Energae LP, said the primary focuses of his company are waste-based ethanol and the use of algae in the making of ethanol for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets. Energae is producing algae in South Carolina that […]

The Iranian algae biofuel project is carried out by researchers at Teheran’s Shiraz University who succeeded in producing green fuel from the algae Chlamydomonas. The microalgae were isolated during a screening program from soil and water samples collected from paddy-fields of Fars province and the Maharlu Salt Lake, and the researchers registered their findings at […]

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Bioenergy International expo & conference, which rebranded this year to focus on bioenergy and biomass as well as just biodiesel and bioethanol, is a two day exhibition and conference which will look in depth at second generation biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol, ways to source sustainable biomass, pyrolysis technology, the potential of biogas across Europe, developments in […]

Massachusetts-based Bodega Algae LLC and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, have received a six-month, $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and test a prototype for growing high concentrations of algae for biofuel. The grant is titled Light Delivery Enhancement of Photobioreactors and will […]

Catilin Inc. announced a three-year, $5.3 million project as part of a $44 million U.S. DOE award made to Catilin’s consortium, National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts. Catilin and its partner, Iowa State University-Center for Catalysis, will provide key extraction, sequestration and conversion technologies. Catilin and ISU-CCAT will use mesoporous nanoparticles to selectively extract […]

A company based in Clear Lake is turning waste and algae into renewable fuels. Bud Jermeland, 51, president of Energae LP, said the primary focuses of his company are waste-based ethanol and the use of algae in the making of ethanol for the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical markets. See more

Enexions is an online networking hub for green and sustainability. It has a cool feature where we can start a diary on topics related to sustainability. While in some ways it is like maintaining a blog, the advantages with having diaries for your “green” topics at Enexions are: 1. You can make very short notes […]

“Why algae fuel is going to take so long? As promising as the technology is, it hasn’t proved that it can produce fuels in sufficient quantities or at a low enough cost to make a dent in U.S. liquid-fuel consumption.” The author Michel totty has given us the clear picture of algae fuel’s current status […]

Pate, who is a principal member of technical staff at Sandia, has been in Washington, D.C., since November 2009, serving as a technical consultant to the emerging algae biofuels program within the Biomass Office of the Department of Energy’s Office of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (EERE). Pate was part of the DOE-sponsored team that […]

Sachtleben, a unit of Rockwood Holdings Inc. and the leading producer of specialty titanium dioxide and functional additives has developed catalytically active particles that stand to revolutionize the production of biofuels using sustainable and environmentally friendly means. Sacthleben is working with Augsburg College and biodiesel producer Ever Cat Fuels LLC, which is currently designing the […]

Jonathan Zehr, a professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the microbe as an atypical member of the cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic bacteria formerly known as blue-green algae. Still lacking a formal taxonomic classification, it is known only as UCYN-A. First detected in the open ocean near Hawaii in […]

Renewed World Energies, Inc. is launching the world’s first commercially-viable, closed system, automated microalgae production facility. RWE’s efforts are pioneering a new era of mass adoption of bio-fuel. Over the past six years, Tim Tompkins and Richard Armstrong, RWE’s principals, have developed a scalable closed system bioreactor that not only grows algae but will make […]

Bob Walsh, CEO of Aurora Biofuels, has left the start-up “for personal reasons” after less than a year, according to a spokesperson. Walsh joined the Alameda algae-fuel company in March 2009 after leaving the CEO position at rival biofuels startup LS9 Inc. The company released the following statement after an original version of this story […]

Proposals to construct a plant for the development of sustainable fuel have been welcomed by an international engineering firm. Mott MacDonald said that British Airways’ plans to set up a green fuel plant and then purchase the product for use on its fleet is a ‘step in the right direction’. Laurence Price, director of aviation […]

Biofuel Digest reports that two producers have been able to reduce the cost of production of cellulosic ethanol and algal biodiesel below USD 2.00 per gallon, or 50 cents per litre. In Washington, the special assistant for energy at the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has been conducting two algal fuel projects, said […]

Algae-X is expanding their line of Tank Cleaning & Fuel Restoration Systems with a new model the “MTC 500-AFR”. This industrial, heavy duty system is equipped with an Adjustable Flow Rate pump, providing Algae-X tank cleaning and fuel maintenance companies more flexibility to service a wider range of tank sizes with one machine. The new […]

Using algae, brine shrimp, and tilapia, researchers have designed a novel system that extracts oil for use as biofuel, potentially reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a proposed electric power plant. In the researchers’ design, sludge-fed algae would be cultivated in large raceways. Paddle wheels would hasten reproduction by moving the water. This is where […]

The algae oil offers the excited researchers a third option as a biodiesel feedstock, after soybean oil and animal fats. In addition, scientists are working on a process that will take a byproduct of algae after the oil is extracted and convert it into a high-protein human food additive! See more

The new EU Phase III Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for green jet fuel seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by planes operating in member states. The regulations will likely spur a large market for jet fuel made from algae. The regulations will come into effect in 2013. Airlines that land in EU member states will […]