Sustainable Fuel from Algae

The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and Touchstone Research Laboratory partner to develop fuel from algae that grows in farm ponds. This algae produces more oil than soybeans.

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Algae Competition: The Future of Algae

How will growing algae change the world and improve our lives? The Future of Algae introduces twenty amazing entries from the International Algae Competition, a global challenge to design visionary algae food and energy systems. Beginning with algae pond systems and photobioreactors today, this video looks into our future, exploring emerging themes, schemes and dreams in algae architecture and landscape design.

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Algae Air Concept

Algae grows 40 times faster than regular plants. Oxygen is produced during photosynthesis and electricity can be produced directly from photosynthesis.

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SunEco Energy

SunEco Energy stands at the forefront of a bioproducts revolution and is ready to shepherd in a new age of clean, renewable, sustainable, and domestic, oil production by harnessing the productive power of algae. Algae properly harnessed will become the next oil boom, producing renewable, sustainable, and low cost fuels, plastics and other products which once relied on petroleum.

Unlike some other biofuels feedstocks which place a strain on global food supply, the SunEco algae oil process actually supplements global food supply by providing a high quality livestock feed supplement. SunEco enjoys an advantage in knowledge of the algae organism and large scale water treatment, oil production in a pilot plant, time to market after having already completed a successful pilot phase, and scale having developed the system for large scale open pond environments.

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Polycarbonate panel for algae reactor

This is a UV resistant Hurricane Polycarbonate Window Shield panel that holds 80 pounds of liquid easily. By pumping water in with a small 7 watt water pump, a vacuum is created preventing the entire water mass from rushing out the bottom.

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University of Arizona: Algae research

This video features Dr.Pete Waller, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering department, who describes the campus’ algae research facility- “The ARID Raceway”. ARID stands for Algae Raceway Integrated Design. The design provides a method to control the temperature of water so that algae has the optimum growing conditions.

The raceway has been developed with the idea of maintain an inexpensive agricultural system- the materials used in construction of the system are inexpensive. This helps in pushing the University towards large-scale production, which remains the ultimate aim.

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Sapphire Energy: An overview

In April 2011, Sapphire Energy was featured in the PBS Special, Planet Forward. This program presented the most promising new companies and technologies in alternative energy. The film crew visited Sapphires labs in San Diego and the R&D Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Sapphire Energy is targeting commercial production in 2012.

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BioProcess Algae

BioProcess Algae, LLC designs, builds, and operates commercial scale bioreactors that enable efficient conversion of light and CO2 into high value microbial feedstock.

Rather than fighting biofilms, BioProcess Algae embraces them. The technology at the heart of BioProcess Algae cultivators is a unique high surface area, biofilm-based approach to enhance light penetration, productivity, harvest density and gas transfer – all traditional bottlenecks to low-cost algae cultivation. The Grower Harvester™ technology is a flexible platform that allows for economical production of biomass and secreted metabolites.

BioProcess Algae LLC designs, manufactures, and operates integrated systems to support bioreactor operations and dewatering efforts. Current demonstration activities are supported by commercial scale modular systems that include Grower Harvester™ cultivators, flue gas tie-ins and fully automated operational support such as pH and temperature control, CO2 and nutrient delivery, CIP capability, dewatering and water reuse.

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Algae Bioreactor with solar panel system

This video features an algae bio-reactor with solar panels. At present, there are three tubes, each of which holds about 2.5 gallons of water in it. They are each 6 feet long.

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Algae: Amazing food product

Algae is perhaps the world’s most efficient food. The video features an algae test production unit in Jal, New Mexico, which uses old injection water from oil and gas wells, saving the oil company money and producing food for people, feed for animals, compost for fertilizers, and oil suitable for vehicles. It is also the highest protein and vitamin vegetable on earth and is substantially more efficient than corn, maize and milo. This unit is a part of Eden Gardens Project, an effort to create food production, energy production and water production campuses near cities, military bases, universities etc for national security, defense safety, and to ensure food, energy and water supply in case of disruptions.

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