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American Company to Produce Algae Biofuel

Extreme Biodiesel, a wholly owned subsidiary of BookMerge Technology, a US-based alternative fuel and recycling company is going to produce algae biodiesel (A100) for SunEco systems. SunEco is now finalizing the ‘million mile test’ with J.B. Hunt Trucking with fuel produced by Extreme Biodiesel. BookMerge and SunEco are planning for the next step to bring [...]

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[ More ] January 27th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy-Companies |

Novel Conversion Process to Make Algae Fuels a Reality

Research team under Johannes A. Lercher of Technische Universität München has introduced a new catalytic process that allows the effective conversion of biopetroleum from microalgae into diesel fuels. Traditional methods for refining oil from microalgae suffer from various disadvantages. The resulting fuel either has too high an oxygen content and poor flow at low temperatures, [...]

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[ More ] January 12th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae Oil Extraction, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Fuel-Research |

Sea Robots Farm Algae for Fuel

Although presently a small biofuel farm with only a small wind turbine, solar panel and a container of algae floating on water, Pennsylvania-based BEAR Oceanics envisions a fleet of tiny robots that could harvest the sea for algae which can then be converted to biodiesel. Six microbial genera will be used for the production of [...]

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[ More ] January 6th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae biodiesel USA, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Equipments, Algae-Fuel-Research, Algae-Oil-Companies |

BARD to Set up a Pilot Oilgae Facility at Pennsylvania

BARD is building the first full composite plant in the north east region of the United States. The facility will combine a 60M gallon biodiesel production plant and a 66M gallon soy solvent extraction plant and a 66M gallon algae cultivation, harvesting & extraction plant. Biofuel Advance Research and Development, LLC. (BARD) now  has entered [...]

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[ More ] February 1st, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Companies |

HR Biopetroleum Plans to Take Over Cellana

HR BioPetroleum Inc.  has announced that  it will buy out its partner in an algae-to-energy venture in Kona. Cellana’s first commercial project will be a biofuel plant that the company plans to build next to Maui Electric Co.’s Maalaea Power Plant. Biodiesel made from algae at the Cellana facility will be burned at the plant [...]

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[ More ] January 28th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Companies |

Electronics reused to cultivate algae for biofuel!

Kenney, along with undergraduate students Timothy Harvey, Elliot DeVries and Mark Schnitzer, and graduate student Saeidreza Shiftehfar was focused on finding a way to be green, and ended up winning second place in the International Electronic Waste Competition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with their unique design of using electronic waste as a [...]

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[ More ] October 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel |

Algae Europe 2010, 26 – 28 October 2010, Milan

ALGAE EUROPE Conference & Expo the first fair-conference in Italy dedicated to the technologies and industrial applications of algae culture, which will take place from 26 to 28 October 2010 at Fieramilanocity, Milan. The event has been designed especially for the manufacturers of technologies, plants and machinery for the production of algae, along with the companies [...]

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[ More ] October 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, algae oil production, Algae-Biodiesel, Algae-Cultivation-Biofuel, Algae-Energy, Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Energy-Cost, Algae-Energy-Events, Algae-Fuel, Algae-Fuel-Research, Algae-Oil-Companies, Algae-Oil-Yield, bio diesel, Biofuel, CO2-Sequestration |

Joule Unlimited’s Single-Step, Continuous Process to Produce Biofuels

Unlike traditional biofuel processes that require intermediates such as sugar, algae, agricultural biomass or tallow, Joule is the first to achieve and patent a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of hydrocarbon fuels requiring no raw material feedstocks. The Cambridge, Massachusetts business claims this sets the stage for the production of a liquid fossil [...]

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[ More ] September 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, Algae-Biodiesel |

A Commercial PBR is not Far Away!

BioCentric Energy an algae company based out of technical team is working at its headquarters this week preparing and assembling all components of the commercial PBR system for the Death Valley Junction, California site. The team is in the process of loading the 20ft trailer that recently arrived from South Carolina last Friday, with the [...]

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[ More ] August 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Companies |

Algae Biodiesel Production in South Africa

Got this note through email from one Tom Catino, I’m posting this here South Africa: De Beers to Get Biodiesel Licence July 21, 2006 Posted to the web July 21, 2006 Siseko Njobeni Johannesburg The  South African Revenue Service (SARS) is on the verge of licensing local biodiesel producer De Beers Fuel’s commercial biodiesel production [...]

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[ More ] July 22nd, 2006 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized |

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