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Solazyme and Bunge Form Joint Venture in Brazil - 8 years ago
Solazyme and Bunge Form Joint Venture in Brazil April 3, 2012AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com outh San Francisco-based Solazyme and Bunge Global Innovation LLC , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bunge Limited, a global agribusiness and food ...- more
GeneArt? Precision TALs - 8 years ago
GeneArt® Precision TALs March 21, 2012AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com TALE proteins offer precise gene editing capabilities. ife Technologies has announced the launch of GeneArt® Precision TALs, generally referred to as TAL effector proteins (TALE), which will ...- more
OriginOil Demonstrates Low-Energy Algae Appliance to National Algae Association - 8 years ago
OriginOil Demonstrates Low-Energy Algae Appliance to National Algae Association NAA workshop attendees view latest algae processing technologies (video, photos) Los Angeles, CA February 7, 2012 – OriginOil, Inc. (OTC/BB: OOIL), a leading ...- more
Algae compressed & fossilized into petroleum. - 8 years ago
http://www.originoil.com/pdf/OriginOil_Algae_Production_and_Networking_Workshop_NAA Algae – Its Strategic Use Ancient History Algae compressed & fossilized into petroleum. Nature processed the whole biomass – did not separate the oils. Today’s Strategy Lipids and biomass are being separated. But are they utilized ...- more
BioProcess Algae and GPRE Break Ground on Iowa Production Facility - 8 years ago
BioProcess Algae and GPRE Break Ground on Iowa Production Facility February 2, 2012AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com ioProcess Algae LLC and Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. have announced that they will start construction of BioProcess Algae’s ...- more
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In the recent years, there has been a shift of trend towards use of natural ingredients in various forms of food nutrients in cosmetics and nutraceutical industry. Growing demand for ... more
Researchers have analyzed how green algae manufacture complex components of a hydrogen-producing enzyme. The enzyme, known as the hydrogenase, may be relevant for the biotechnological production of hydrogen. more
Algae.Tec Ltd has launched its Alganics range of products at the Supply Side West 2016 show in Las Vegas, considered the world’s leading nutraceutical ingredient and solutions tradeshow. The launch of the ... more
University of Hawaii researchers are touting a potential breakthrough in the study of aging. UH researchers and a local business teamed up to find out if a natural compound could affect the ... more
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Wonder what is the latest timeline that is suggested by experts for algae fuel commercialization...I recently read that Synthetic Genomics suggest that it could be beyond 2025, perhaps even 2030 when we can realistically expert algal fuel to be in the market
@ Krupali- Check this link - http://www.youngagain.org/books/betaglucan.pdf more
That's quite interesting! What are the applications of this compound? more
Yes, the extraction is expensive when organisms such as yeasts are involved since it has only 10-15% of beta glucan while the algae that is being used by Algae Scientific ... more
Isnt the extraction of Beta Glucan expensive? more
The 7th annual Algae Biomass Summit will take place September 30 - October 3, 2013 at the Hilton Orlando in Orlando, Florida. This dynamic event unites industry professionals from all sectors of ... more
When do algae fuels become a commercial reality??
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Which Algal strain will be suitable for the research....
Friends... i wanna to do a project on " Genetic manipulation of algae to improve self-aggregation " Am inviting your comments and suggestions ...... Nimal Raveendran
Solalgen Peak oil, population growth and global warming all are drivers of the need to develop secondgeneration biofuels, which do not compete with agricultural food production. Solalgen, (www.solalgen.eu), an R&D ... more
I wish to do an algae biodiesel project on Botricoccus braunii and Schiochytrium . This algae biodiesel project is very important for me. i am thinking about this project from last 11 months. i design the photo bioreacter also for algae cultivation. For that project i require algae culture. Due to lack of algae culture i did not started that project, please can anybody give some information about algae culture availability centres and how can i get that algae culture. please help me.
I want to be on the next taste panel !!!! more
Glimpse of the ARID Raceway Project - Videos | CleanTick Portal - Cleantick.com - more
Do anyone know how much is the oil content of the ‘gracilaria salicornia’ algae? more
Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a thermoplastic polyester which can be found naturally in the bacteria: Bacillus megaterium and Ralstonia eutropha. The genes encoding for this polymer were identified and transferred to ... more
Covering ponds with translucent membranes or the use of greenhouses overcomes this problem, allowing the more productive strains to be grown free of atmospheric contamination. In raceway ponds, large contaminants can ... more
The technology looks to efficiently remove algae from water potentially permitting the economic use of algae based products to be used for sustainable fuel, food, feed, chemicals, plastics and many ... more
SCALING AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF ALGAE HARVESTING TECHNOLOGIES http://www.cleantick.com/topic/algae-fuels/challenges/reducing-the-cost-and-energy-consumption-for-algae-harvesting/activity/17654
Astaxanthin, as an anti-oxidant, has significant potential to increase the life-span…granted, it is expensive, but there are enough millionaires in the world (over 10 million millionaires), who can easily afford ... more
For the past year or so I have been interested in algae's ability of carbon sequestration. It has developed into a full blooming company over the course of 2 years. ... more
Hi Tom,I like the articles you post over here. I would like to hear what you think about my choice of topics too..I have posted my articles at this link: http://www.cleantick.com/users/emily/blogs/rd-magazines-49th-scientist-of-the-year Check ... more
The best sensors to use are solid state sensors, but they should be true solid state sensors, not gel/polymer.They should have a built in reference electrode also solid state.This means ... more
This was an interesting article http://www.cleantick.com/portal/news/pages/1043. The idea is to produce 16 times more algae than existing technologies. The process allows algae to be cultured in vertical bio-reactors rather than in the ... more
Origin Oil 's technologies are amazing - this in particular is my favorite http://goo.gl/BlR3Y more
Hi Tom,I was just wondering if there were any commercial algal strains being sold in Asia after reading this blog: http://goo.gl/X7wnd .Try checking out this article and can you let ... more
Thirty microalgal strains were screened in the laboratory for their biomass productivity and lipid content. Four strains (two marine and two freshwater), selected because robust, highly productive and with a ... more
Some algae have proved highly effective in removing chromium from tannery effluent. Treatment of tannery effluent can be achieved through a custom-designed high rate algal ponding process to generate and ... more
When I came across this question on CleanTick,I happened to recollect the different strains which produced a good yield of oil when grown in the presence of sewage water, carbon ... more
Most benthic freshwater habitats are blue-green algae (Cyanophyta), green algae (Chlorophyta), diatoms (Bacillariophyta), or red algae (Rhodophyta). However, most other divisions of algae can occur in freshwater benthic habitats. The ... more
"Solvent extraction by hexane is the most common choice for extraction of oil/lipids from algae. However, hexane is not the best choice of solvent for algae oil extraction because of ... more
Are drum, disc and belt filters effective for algae harvesting? "Belt-press seems to be comparatively cheaper than other harvesting methods. The costs of the belt-filters range from between between $150,000 to ... more