{"id":6284,"date":"2017-03-08T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2017-03-08T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:43:35","slug":"uk-caer-receives-1-2-million-to-support-algae-based-carbon-utilization-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/uk-caer-receives-1-2-million-to-support-algae-based-carbon-utilization-project.html","title":{"rendered":"UK CAER Receives $1.2 Million to Support Algae-Based Carbon Utilization Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research\u2019s (CAER) Biofuels and Environmental Catalysis Group has received $1.2 million US DOE grant for their novel work in utilizing CO2 from coal-fired power plants to manufacture bioplastics.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5691 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Algae-CO2-capture-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Algae CO2 capture\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Algae-CO2-capture-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Algae-CO2-capture-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The DOE funding will allow the CAER team to investigate a combined photobioreactor\/pond cultivation process to decrease the cost of algae cultivation while developing a strategy to maximize the value from algal biomass.<\/p>\n<p>With this project, UK CAER team has become the global leader in developing a technology to capture carbon di oxide from coal-fired power plants using algae and convert the resulting algal biomass to products like bioplastics, chemicals and fuels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uknow.uky.edu\/research\/uk-caer-receives-12-million-support-algae-based-carbon-utilization-project\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research\u2019s (CAER) Biofuels and Environmental Catalysis Group has received $1.2 million US DOE grant for their novel work in utilizing CO2 from coal-fired power plants to manufacture bioplastics. The DOE funding will allow the CAER team to investigate a combined photobioreactor\/pond cultivation process to decrease the cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557,82,10,576],"tags":[136,154,99],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-plastics","category-algae-carbon-capture","category-algae-co2-capture","category-university-research","tag-algae-research","tag-bioplastics","tag-co2-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","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=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}