You are at: Oilgae Blog.Seambiotic, one of the oldest companies in algae, has signed a deal with China Guodian Corp. to build algae farms near power plants in that country.The first farm, opening in 2010 in Penglai, will cover 12 hectares and cost about $10 million. Seambiotic specializes in open "racetrack" ponds. In these ponds, flue gas from a power plant is circulated into water where

You are at: Oilgae Blog.A researcher at Washington State University recently received a $2 million federal appropriation to improve the process of turning algae into energy. The money came through the 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development bill and will go to the Washington State Algae Alliance. Shulin Chen is a professor of biological systems engineering. He has patents pending on several

You are at: Oilgae Blog.BioFields will produce biofuel from algae on an industrial scale as of 2014 in a plant located in Puerto Libertad, Sonara state. This large-scale pilot programme will be set up 300 km from the United States, which will be their main client.According to Sergio Ramirez, director of Corporative Affairs of the company, the plant should be finalised in the second half of 2010.

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Truman State University held its 2nd Annual Bioenergy Conference earlier today. The conference addressed production and handling of bio-mass feedstock’s, algae oil production and utilization, as well as developments in bio-energy. Throughout the afternoon, several presentations were going on including hands on bio-energy demonstrations and exhibits at the University

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Bioalgal Marine, an Almeria University spin-off company specialised in cultivating and integral usage of microalgae has developed a new fertiliser manufactured from a microalga called Spirulina, called Algafert. This natural fertiliser visibly enhances plants' roots and resistanceAccording to Marta Sánchez de Puerta, Bioalgal Marine's Manager, “this biofertiliser, which is

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Big Island-based microalgae producer Cyanotech Corp. said the presence of Vitamin K2 has been identified in one of its primary products, spirulina.  The company has sold spirulina for more than a decade as a food supplement rich in natural beta carotene and other nutrients, but said it recently received an independent contract laboratory analysis showing the product

You are at: Oilgae Blog.According to the press release, Dennis Shen and team have completed the scaled down version of BioCentric's commercialized Closed-Loop Photobioreactor System, The Algae Culturing Station, The Wall and The BioCentric Eye Monitoring System. These products will be available for purchase and posted on both the BioCentric Energy website and the National Algae Association

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles found a way to create genetically modified bacteria called cyanobacterium, which consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, reported Science Daily.The research originally published on Wednesday in the journal Nature of Biotechnology states that consumption of carbon dioxide is directly powered

You are at: Oilgae Blog.SCOTTISH Enterprise (SE) has announced that leading international energy and environmental consultancy AEA has been awarded the foresighting and economic modelling work for SE’s recently integrated ITI Energy Seaweed Anaerobic Digestion (SAD) programme, to aid and underpin the commercialisation of the technology being developed. Seaweed (or marine algae) remains an

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Saudi Arabia first disclosed plans for the carbon injection project in October, but Mr al Naimi detailed a longer-term strategy noting that the eventual goal was to tie carbon capture with the kingdom’s interest in producing biofuels from algae.“We are looking at capturing carbon dioxide, injecting it in sea water, creating algae and hopefully producing two things: ethanol

You are at: Oilgae Blog.UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its Ecofining process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green diesel fuel that will power vehicles at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Conference (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark. UOP's process technology converted oil from algae provided by Solazyme, a renewable oil

You are at: Oilgae Blog.A San Francisco company's will tap into under-used large vats at Cherokee Pharmaceuticals plant in Riverside to open its first facility to make biodiesel fuel from algae oil. "Cherokee has under-utilized vats and our company hopes to use them to execute this grant to produce fuel from algae," said Michael Meehan, of Blue Line Strategic Communications which handles public

You are at: Oilgae Blog.The Washington State Algae Alliance, comprised of bioscience firm Targeted Growth, Inc. (TGI), Inventure Chemical (Inventure) and Washington State University (WSU), will benefit from $2 million in funding through WSU as part of the 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) was instrumental in securing funding for the

You are at: Oilgae Blog.OriginOil Inc. of Los Angeles has been listed as one of the 50 hottest biofuel companies in the world. OriginOil was chosen out of a field of more than 1,400 companies worldwide, working in algae, ethanol, renewable diesel and biobutanol.Biofuels Digest, the most widely read daily biofuels newsletter in the world published the list. The companies on the list were chosen by

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Press Release The National Algae Association's Mid-South Chapter workshop "Algae: Exploring Open Pond Production Opportunities, "  which brought top experts in open pond production together with catfish pond owners, investors and algaepreneurs to learn from each other and fast-track commercial-scale algae open pond production for energy, animal feedstock, organic

You are at: Oilgae Blog.The U.S. government on Friday said 19 biofuel refinery projects have been selected to receive up to $564 million to enhance the development of advanced biofuels using biomass feedstocks.The funding includes $25 million to Honeywell's UOP subsidiary, $24.8 million to Archer Daniels Midland, $21.8 million to Solazyme and $50 million to Sapphire Energy.The government said of

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Krishna Niyogi, a biologist with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, led the discovery that an ancient light harvesting protein, LHCSR, functions as a molecular “dimmer switch” that helps prevent green algae from absorbing too much sunlight during photosynthesis and suffering oxidation damage as a consequence.See moreBy the way, have you subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?; How about

You are at: Oilgae Blog.United States corporation Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has founded a subsidiary, BAL Chile, through which the company has already begun cultivating 100 hectares of seaweed on the island of Chiloé, with the aim of producing bio-fuel.BAL developed micro-organisms that trigger a fermentation process in the algae, which in turn produces bio-fuel and by-products that can also be

You are at: Oilgae Blog.Press releaseAs several industrialized nations rush to dampen the expectations of Copenhagen, NASA has launched a new mission. The payload: Algae Systems – a new company started by NASA engineers and seasoned biofuel industry veterans to launch a profitable global solution for reducing greenhouse gases. Algae Systems: Producing Carbon-Negative Diesel and Jet Fuel from

You are at: Oilgae Blog.In July, Colorado-based Solix Biofuel raised USD16.8m in a Series A funding round from investors including Shanghai Alliance Investment,I2BF Venture Capital and Valero Energy. Solix is building a pilot facility in partnership with Southern Ute Alternative Energy. The first phase will be completed next year and will include four acres of closed algae photobioreactors . The