{"id":924,"date":"2009-02-12T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2009-02-12T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T04:04:00","slug":"algae-to-reduce-distillery-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/algae-to-reduce-distillery-carbon.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae to Reduce Distillery Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Van Alstyne&#8217;s Scottish Bioenergy Cooperative Ventures is preparing to roll out technology which could allow drinks firms to convert wasteful by-products into valuable resources using humble algae after winning \u00a340,000 under Shell&#8217;s Springboard programme.<\/p>\n<p>The two firms hope to use bioreactors produced by Scottish Bioenergy to achieve a big reduction in the distillery&#8217;s carbon footprint and operating costs.<\/p>\n<p>The bioreactors are glass panels that contain water and algae. When carbon dioxide is percolated through the panels, the algae strips out the carbon atoms, which are made into biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>The process also produces proteins that could be used to enrich spent grain from the distillery so that it is suitable for sale to fish farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Van Alstyne has high hopes that there could be a big market for the technology.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/business\/news\/display.var.2488664.0.Innovative_solution_to_distilleries_carbon_footprint.php\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. David Van Alstyne&#8217;s Scottish Bioenergy Cooperative Ventures is preparing to roll out technology which could allow drinks firms to convert wasteful by-products into valuable resources using humble algae after winning \u00a340,000 under Shell&#8217;s Springboard programme. The two firms hope to use bioreactors produced by Scottish Bioenergy to achieve a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-co2-capture","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}