Jan

31

Algae Production Gets a Breakthrough

January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment

At the UKs Sheffield University (SU) a team led by Professor Will Zimmerman in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering believes they have developed an inexpensive way of producing microbubbles that can float algae particles to the surface of the water, making harvesting easier, and saving biofuel-producing companies time and money. One of the [...]

Aug

10

Algae Metabolism Is Now Documented

August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

In a collaboration of universities across the U.S., Iceland and the United Arab Emirates the metabolic network of the algae strain Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been documented.  This will provide a new platform for genomic data analysis and phenotype prediction. A metabolic network reconstruction encompasses existing knowledge about an organism’s metabolism and the genome. The research [...]

May

31

A Big Industrial Move For CO2 to Algae

May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Linde Group is currently the leading supplier of CO2 in the U.S., providing CO2 for processes like dry-cleaning, welding gases and cooling food products.  Linde is an industry leader that employs about 48,000 people and earned nearly $18 billion in the gases and engineering sector in 2010. Linde has announced a partnership with Sapphire [...]

Apr

21

Where Will The Algae Be Grown?

April 21, 2011 | 11 Comments

There’s a question that will stimulate the American with a real estate itch to be scratched.  It will likely stimulate a lot of attention worldwide as well.  One way to an answer has come from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). High oil prices, environmental and economic security concerns motivate a [...]

Mar

4

Algae Based Butanol Production Gains Working Processes

March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments

This week two new algae process paths made it out into view. One deals with algae directly producing butanol and the other is a growth process for algae that exploits an already concentrated algae growth medium with innovative processing. First and simplest, and likely most easily adoptable is from a team of chemical engineers at [...]

Feb

22

Is Algae Fuel Production So Far Away?

February 22, 2011 | 13 Comments

Biofuels Digest ran a long article last week covering most if not all the leaders in algae to fuel production.  The lead for the article is the government of Mexico has announced it will support project work to yield 1% of the country’s jet fuel by 2015.  OriginOil is the first to sign up. Origin’s [...]

Jan

28

A Fresh and Salt Water Algae Discovered

January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

Researchers of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), along with collaborators at Dalhousie University and the Natural History Museum (NHM), London have discovered an entirely new group of algae living in a wide variety of marine and freshwater environments by following up on an unexpected DNA sequence listed in a research paper from the [...]

Dec

13

A Lithium Ion 3-D Battery Breakthrough

December 13, 2010 | 6 Comments

Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of Chemistry at Rice University said, “In a battery, you have two electrodes separated by a thick barrier, The challenge is to bring everything into close proximity so this electrochemistry becomes much more efficient.”  That is exactly a [...]

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