{"id":5902,"date":"2016-06-07T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:01:00","slug":"rit-links-up-with-synergy-biogas-to-explore-production-of-biofuels-from-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/rit-links-up-with-synergy-biogas-to-explore-production-of-biofuels-from-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"RIT Links up with Synergy Biogas to Explore Production of Biofuels from Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from New York has partnered with Synergy Biogas to explore the environmental benefits of microalgae for wastewater treatment and production of biofuels.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5239 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/algaloil-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"algaloil\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/algaloil-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/algaloil-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">RIT is running a three month pilot programme at Synergy Biogas, where microalgae will be grown in a 1000 gallon tank through a process that can be scaled up to treat 52,000 gallons or 200,000 litres of wastewater a day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The trial project will demonstrate the organism\u2019s ability to consume ammonia, phosphorous and nitrogen from digested biomass and reduce contaminants below state-mandated levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioenergy-news.com\/display_news\/10573\/RIT_links_up_with_Synergy_Biogas_to_explore_production_of_biofuels_from_algae\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from New York has partnered with Synergy Biogas to explore the environmental benefits of microalgae for wastewater treatment and production of biofuels. RIT is running a three month pilot programme at Synergy Biogas, where microalgae will be grown in a 1000 gallon tank through a process that can be scaled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9,617,615],"tags":[200,136,640],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-fuel","category-algae-fuel-research","category-alliances","category-research-2","tag-algae-biofuels","tag-algae-research","tag-algae-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902","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=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5903,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions\/5903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}