{"id":1102,"date":"2009-06-08T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2017-11-21T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T08:51:43","slug":"texas-researchers-are-working-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/texas-researchers-are-working-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Texas Researchers are Working on Saltwater Algae for Biofuel Production"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas researchers are working to transform algae fuel into a commercially competitive process. Both Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin are deeply involved in algae research, and private corporations in Texas also are exploring its potential. Texas A&M is producing oil-rich algae at a test facility just west of Pecos.<\/p>\n

At the test facility near Pecos, researchers are growing algae in raceway ponds. Bob Avant, bio-energy program director for Texas AgriLife Research said researchers are working with saltwater algae that have a higher oil content than that found in freshwater varieties. And there are other advantages. If the saltwater algae find their way into a freshwater lake or stream, they’re unlikely to survive and create problems for native species.<\/p>\n

Periodically, a portion of the algae in a raceway is removed to be processed. Deprived of nutrients, the algae is basically stressed out restless leg syndrome<\/a>, which causes it to produce more oil. The cell walls of the algae are broken down to extract the oil.<\/div>\n

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Researchers in Pecos are using centrifuges for that presently, but Avant said that new techniques need to be developed to make that process more economical.<\/p>\n

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You are at: Oilgae Blog. Texas researchers are working to transform algae fuel into a commercially competitive process. Both Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin are deeply involved in algae research, and private corporations in Texas also are exploring its potential. Texas A&M is producing oil-rich algae at a test facility just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-cultivation-open-pond","category-algae-strains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7058,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/7058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}