{"id":5865,"date":"2016-04-22T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2016-04-22T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:50:13","slug":"new-algal-turf-scrubbers-to-clean-water-and-create-biomass-for-renewable-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-algal-turf-scrubbers-to-clean-water-and-create-biomass-for-renewable-fuel.html","title":{"rendered":"New Algal Turf Scrubbers to Clean Water and Create Biomass for Renewable Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers funded by the Energy Department have developed algal flow ways or algal turf scrubbers to manage nutrient loading and improve fresh water, marine and estuarine communities. In these systems, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5866 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/algae-turf-scrubber-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"algae turf scrubber\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/algae-turf-scrubber-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/algae-turf-scrubber-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>filamentous algae are installed near stormwater or wastewater runoff sites and harvested with mechanical farm equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The highly productive, easily harvested, dewatered turf algae is a promising source of biomass to produce biocrude oil which can be converted to renewable diesel, gasoline or jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyglobal.com\/downstream\/clean-fuels\/12042016\/Algal-Turf-Scrubbers-helping-clean-water-and-produce-renewable-fuels-3011\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers funded by the Energy Department have developed algal flow ways or algal turf scrubbers to manage nutrient loading and improve fresh water, marine and estuarine communities. In these systems, filamentous algae are installed near stormwater or wastewater runoff sites and harvested with mechanical farm equipment. The highly productive, easily harvested, dewatered turf algae is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,7,63,40],"tags":[647,200,279,136,639,640],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae","category-algae-biodiesel","category-algae-cultivation-biofuel","category-algae-fuel","tag-algae","tag-algae-biofuels","tag-algae-cultivation-2","tag-algae-research","tag-algae-biodiesel","tag-algae-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5867,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}