Dec
19
New Process Takes Wet Algae Straight to Crude Oil
December 19, 2013 | 3 Comments
Engineers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have created a continuous chemical process that produces useful crude oil minutes after they pour in harvested algae. The new design could bring algae to a more market ready status. The research results have been published in the journal Algal Research. A biofuels company, […]
Jun
28
Can An Algae Save Coal Power Generation?
June 28, 2013 | 7 Comments
University of Delaware (UD) researcher Kathryn Coyne is growing algae in her lab at UD’s Lewes campus that could help cut power plant emissions and serve as a base ingredient for biofuel. The microscopic algae Heterosigma akashiwo grows rapidly on a gas mixture that has the same carbon dioxide and nitric oxide content as emissions […]
Dec
3
Marine Algae Genetic Engineering Begins
December 3, 2012 | 2 Comments
Biology scientists at University of California San Diego genetically engineered marine algae to produce five different kinds of industrially important enzymes and say the same process they used could be employed to enhance the yield of petroleum-like compounds from these salt-water algae. The team believes with good reason that marine algae can be just as […]
Nov
23
The Algae That Eats Other Plants
November 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
A research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery that one plant, the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, not only engages in photosynthesis, but also has an alternative source of energy: it can draw it out from other plants. Plants need water and light to grow using sunlight energy to produce their biomass from […]
Nov
14
Algae Derived Bio Fuel Arrives at Retail Pumps
November 14, 2012 | 1 Comment
Beginning November 13th 2012, Propel Fuels, a California Bay Area retailer of renewable fuels and Solazyme, Inc. the renewable oil and bioproducts company, are selling algae-derived B-20 diesel fuel to retail pumps for the first time in history. The product is called Soladiesel®BD that has 20% Solazyme algae sourced biodiesel combined with regular diesel fuel. […]
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