{"id":2441,"date":"2010-09-16T05:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2010-09-16T05:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:14:35","slug":"doe-investment-supports-scale-up-of-srsenergy-algafrac-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/doe-investment-supports-scale-up-of-srsenergy-algafrac-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"DOE Investment Supports Scale-Up of SRSenergy AlgaFrac Platform."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solutionrecovery.com\/\">Solution Recovery Services<\/a>, an employee owned industry leader in oil separation and purification systems partnered with Touchstone Research Laboratory a privately owned, U.S. Small business with principal operations<br \/>\nin Triadelphia, W.V.<\/p>\n<p>The project team has successfully secured $6.2 MM in funding from the Department of Energy to support field piloting of Algal-Biofuel technology as a &#8216;Beneficial Re-Use of Carbon Dioxide&#8217;. This project will demonstrate a process for capturing and re-using CO2 from a small, industrial source operating on coal, utilizing algae grown in open ponds under Technology Area 2, \u201cInnovative Concepts for Beneficial CO2 Use,\u201d of the Funding Opportunity Announcement.<\/p>\n<p>A unique component of the project is that a phase change material will be utilized in the open-pond approach to tackle operational<br \/>\nchallenges facing the algae cultivation community.<\/p>\n<p>The grown algae will be harvested on-site during the operations phase of the project and the lipids will be extracted and converted to approximately 2,000 gallons of biofuel in an off-site biomass fractionation process, by SRSenergy of Dexter, MI. In response to increased demands in algal biomass processing capabilities, SRSenergy has announced plans to scale their wet-fractionation platform from batch to a continuous flow platform capable of processing 30gph of a 20% TSS wet-biomass.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nAbout Solution Recovery Services Energy\u00a0 (SRS Energy)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SRSenergy, leaders in separation and purification systems have developed AlgaFractm a wet-fractionation process. Receiving a biosolids input ranging from 10 \u2013 20% TSS, the AlgaFractm platform enable farmers of algal biomass to maximize product value through recovery and conversion of lipid, carbohydrates and protein components.<br \/>\nHaving completed core R&amp;D for over 3 years, SRSenergy leads the market with a series of products and services tailored to for all stages of RD&amp;D through commercialization. Contact SRSenergy to learn more about maximizing the value of<br \/>\nany algae crop using AlgaFractm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release Solution Recovery Services, an employee owned industry leader in oil separation and purification systems partnered with Touchstone Research Laboratory a privately owned, U.S. Small business with principal operations in Triadelphia, W.V. The project team has successfully secured $6.2 MM in funding from the Department of Energy to support field piloting of Algal-Biofuel technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,56,5],"tags":[647,102,157],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-energy","category-algae-energy-companies","tag-algae","tag-biofuels","tag-doe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}