The University of Texas at Austin is conducting a multidisciplinary research and development program directed toward extraction of triglycerides from algae for the production of transportation fuels. The triglyceride extraction is widely recognized as a key impediment to the commercialization of this biofuel. Current extraction technologies are too expensive to be competitive.

SRS has established new techniques for fractionation of algae, providing for the highest recovery of lipids for biofuel production. SRS leverages the implementation and operation of systems at over 2000 client sites to provide the algae biofuels industry with the patent pending SRS Algafrac™ technology for a commercially scalable process which extracts lipids