{"id":2883,"date":"2011-01-19T05:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2011-01-19T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:52:10","slug":"photon8-claims-algae-fuel-production-1-25-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/photon8-claims-algae-fuel-production-1-25-gallon.html","title":{"rendered":"Photon8 Aims @ $1.25 \/Gallon Algae Fuels Using Photobioreactors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photon8, a Texas based algae fuel company claims that they have devised a business model which would be produce biodiesel \u00a0at $1.25 per US gallon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photon8 grow their algae in closed systems – photobioreactor with a production rate equal to 1.5 gal\/square meter\/year. They expect to produce 22,000 gal per 2.5 acre\/yr then to best economic units of 5 acres. It believes further development may bring it close to 10,000 gal\/acre\/yr as a basis for planning large production systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some updates from Photon8 (January 2010 – September 2010) are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photon8 Inc.,in partnership with The University of Texas <\/strong>at Brownsville and Texas South most College, received a $1 million<\/strong> grant from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. \u00a0. The company will use the award to genetically enhance the performance of the algae and advance its extraction technology. (January 2010<\/a>)<\/p>\n

An interesting technology by name Traveling Wave Tube technology <\/strong>from Photon8 can boost algae growth by 500 percent,<\/strong> representing a major advance in the profitable conversion of algae to biofuel. This technology promises to cut costs further by dispensing with limits normally imposed on algae-to-biofuel production during “degassing” and the addition of carbon to the algae. In a nutshell, algae “broth” is exposed to sunlight in order to produce oily “lipids” \u2014 the more the better. The lipids are harvested for biodiesel production. (May 2010<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Photon8, Inc has announced that it has succeeded in producing \u201cdrop-in\u201d fuel components from its \u201cgenetically improved\u201d algae.. They claim that they have achieved the productivity of 5600 gal\/acre\/year<\/strong>, and most importantly, within our confines of under $10\/m2, leading to a cost of jet fuel components of less than $1.50\/gallon.\u201dPhoton8 claims their new processing methods<\/strong> render hydrocarbons identical to those of conventional fuels, eliminating the need for blending <\/strong>(October 2010<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photon8 has achieved profitable production with a “parallel film reactor” <\/strong>growth and extraction system that costs $10 per square meter and $1.25 to produce a gallon of ethanol. (\u00a0September 2010<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Interesting link regarding Photon\u2019s Techno-Economic Model<\/strong> –\u00a0In Photon8\u2019s case, understanding the market forces for a $1\/gallon biodiesel, the 10,000 gallon\/acre\/year physics limit, and the early-on determination of the requirement for less than $10\/m2 capex were fundamental elements in its arriving at its combined technical and business model. –http:\/\/bit.ly\/9ecmGK<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photon8, a Texas based algae fuel company claims that they have devised a business model which would be produce biodiesel \u00a0at $1.25 per US gallon. Photon8 grow their algae in closed systems – photobioreactor with a production rate equal to 1.5 gal\/square meter\/year. They expect to produce 22,000 gal per 2.5 acre\/yr then to best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}