{"id":5173,"date":"2014-11-20T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2014-11-20T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:38:18","slug":"irans-qeshm-lauched-biofuel-baya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/irans-qeshm-lauched-biofuel-baya.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Qeshm Lauched Biofuel-BAYA\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran-based <a title=\"Iran-Based Microalgae Company to Produce Algae Bio- Jet Fuel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/iran-based-microalgae-company-to-produce-algae-bio-jet-fuel.html\">Qeshm<\/a> Microalgae Biorefinery Co. (QMAB) has launched a biofuel in the name BAYA<strong><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong>. The biofuel is extracted from a species of Nanochloropsis (strain 6016) which is isolated from Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>The company has developed its own process of scaling up cultivation and biofuel production. The strain of algae used in the production of BAYA<strong><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong> contains lipid content ranging from 31% to 68% dry weight.<\/p>\n<p>QMAB\u2019s cultivation takes place through several processes in fields, containing reactor beds, algae inoculation and nutrient source, a CO<sub>2 <\/sub>source, circulation pumps, an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/micro-alga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/micro-alga.jpg\" alt=\"micro-alga\" width=\"134\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/micro-alga.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/micro-alga-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a>d harvest sumps. Each field contains 300 x 3000 m\u00b2 reactor beds. Carbon dioxide is drawn from a gas fired power plant and diluted to a concentration of 6% CO<sub>2\u00a0<\/sub>with dry air.<\/p>\n<p>30% of the culture is harvested every day and collected at a harvest sump location where it is continuously pumped into a high-pressure homogenizer. From there, the algae are fed through a pipeline system to where lipid extraction takes place. In the high-pressure homogenizer 90% of the lipids from the algae are extracted into the lipid stream (the remaining 10% are trapped in the biomass).<\/p>\n<p>The broken cells then separate into lipid, water, and biomass layers in a gravity clarifier.<\/p>\n<p>From the clarifier, the lipid layer is siphoned off. The remaining water and biomass mixture is partially separated in the clarifier as well. The water separated and recycled for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/algae\/oil\/biod\/cult\/cult.html\" target=\"_blank\">algae cultivation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.algaeindustrymagazine.com\/qmab-launches-baya-microalgal-biofuel\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran-based Qeshm Microalgae Biorefinery Co. (QMAB) has launched a biofuel in the name BAYA\u00ae. The biofuel is extracted from a species of Nanochloropsis (strain 6016) which is isolated from Persian Gulf. The company has developed its own process of scaling up cultivation and biofuel production. The strain of algae used in the production of BAYA\u00ae [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,616,578],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-fuel","category-corporates","category-product-launches","tag-algae-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}