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Algae Ventures Secures Development Loan for its Dewatering System

Algae venture had sometime in August  last year come up with what was called the Harvesting , Dewatering and  Drying (HDD)  system which they claim radically improves one of the bottlenecks hindering algae fuels – Dewatering of algae.  See my earlier post – (http://www.oilgae.com/blog/2010/08/harvesting-dewatering-and-drying-of-algae.html) Now,Algaeventure Systems  have reported that they  has been awarded a $1.5 [...]

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[ More ] February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Algae, 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 |

MBD Energy Test Origin Oil’s Extraction Unit at Tarong

Origin Oil, the developers of the Quantum fracturing technologies have announced that their harvesting technology is being tested by MBD Energy in Australia.  MBD energy recently purchased Origin Oil’s extraction unit for their power plant at Tarong, Australia. MBD Energy expects OriginOil technology to support a pilot Bio-CCS (Bio-based Carbon Capture and Storage) algal synthesizer [...]

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

A New Algae Fuel Venture in Australia

A new algae fuel company by name – Muradel Pty has joined the algae fuel race. This company is a joint venture between Murdoch University, Adelaide Research  and SQC Pty. This company has been started to make algae fuels a reality in Australia taking into the advantage the climatic conditions of Australia. The company plans [...]

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[ More ] January 19th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Uncategorized |

Pilot Stage Efforts in Algae Fuels

Here is a summary of the pilot stage efforts taken in the area of algae fuels. A short description of the company and their pilot stage efforts have been highlighted below: Aquatic Energy (www.aquaticenergy.com) A Los Angeles based company currently working on growing proprietary strains of “green algae” that are native to the southwestern Louisiana [...]

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[ More ] September 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Fuel-Research |

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 |