{"id":3731,"date":"2011-12-22T06:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T06:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2011-12-22T06:07:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T06:07:53","slug":"algae-pilot-plant-construction-begins-in-los-lagos-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/algae-pilot-plant-construction-begins-in-los-lagos-university.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Pilot Plant Construction Begins in Los Lagos University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biotechnology Consortium has begun the construction of the Experimental Centre of Algae (CEA) in Puerto Montt Campus of the University of Los Lagos, Chile. The plant is expected to be operational from August 2012. The project aims to produce biofuels and high value products from the kelp <em>Macrocystis pyrifera<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the project is to produce the algae culture by 2012 and then to produce advanced biofuels or renewable chemicals in the 600-square-metre pilot plant to be built in the region of Los Lagos. Oscar Garrido, the Chancellor of the university considers the project as an investment and hopes that it will help them to activate the aquaculture sector, generate employment and ultimately become a development pole.<\/p>\n<p>Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), Chile provides the administrative management and the project general coordination and BAL developed and patented the microbial system capable of producing low-cost biofuels from brown marine macroalgae.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fis.com\/fis\/worldnews\/worldnews.asp?monthyear=&amp;day=21&amp;id=48639&amp;l=e&amp;special=&amp;ndb=1%20target=\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biotechnology Consortium has begun the construction of the Experimental Centre of Algae (CEA) in Puerto Montt Campus of the University of Los Lagos, Chile. The plant is expected to be operational from August 2012. The project aims to produce biofuels and high value products from the kelp Macrocystis pyrifera. The goal of the project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,9],"tags":[376,408,409],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-energy","category-algae-fuel-research","tag-algae-project","tag-chile","tag-los-lagos-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}