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Enhanced R&D in Biofuel Production to Attract More Investors to Latin America
You are at: Oilgae Blog.New analysis from Frost & Sullivan,A Latin America Biofuel Technology Providers, finds that the Argentinean market had an installed capacity of around 600.000 tons of feedstock in 2007 and estimates this to reach 1.2 million in 2008.
Latin America's scientific sophistication in feedstock production makes it an attractive destination to potential investors, while existing investors will be gladdened by the greater access to funding due to the high growth expectations from the global market.
Latin America Biofuel Technology Providers is part of the Chemicals & Materials Growth Partnership Service program, which also includes research in second and third generation biofuels markets and Argentina's fertilizers market.
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Green electricity, A technological innovation that Imperial researchers will be developing in the new 'Planet 2050' programme
You are at: Oilgae Blog.Large-scale use of low-carbon electricity is one technological innovation that Imperial researchers will be developing in the new 'Planet 2050' programme, being set up to help develop the radical approaches needed to achieve the large-scale global emissions reductions sought by 2050. The programme brings together scientists and engineers from Imperial to work on new technologies that can help the UK dramatically reduce its carbon emissions.
Low carbon electricity is produced using methods that emit minimal carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. These could include wind, tidal, solar or nuclear power, and even fossil fuel or biomass burning power stations that have been designed to capture the emitted carbon dioxide for storage deep underground.
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Labels: Algae-Fuel-Research
Progress Energy Florida to test New Generation Biofuels emulsion-based biofuel for power generation
You are at: Oilgae Blog.In Florida, New Generation Biofuels announced an agreement with Progress Energy Florida to supply its vegetable oil and animal fat based emulsified biofuels on a test basis to Progress Energy Florida’s Bartow facility, in St. Petersburg. New Generation Biofuels uses a non-transesterization process based on emulsification to produce biofuel from oil-based feedstocks including palm oil, soybean oil, fish oil, corn oil, canola oil, jatropha oil, algae oil, yellow grease, recycled vegetable oils or animal fats. The company does not produce glycerine as a byproduct, yet has similar reductions in NOx, and sulphur emissions to the results for biodiesel compared to conventional diesel. Progress Energy Florida serves electric power to 1.7 million customers in eastern and central Florida.
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Labels: Algae-Biodiesel
UCYN-A, a Bluegreen algae could fix nitrogen in broad daylighten
You are at: Oilgae Blog.Ocean scientist Jonathan Zehr and colleagues from the University of California, Santa Cruz, addressed this enigma by collecting UCYN-A from a station in the North Pacific Ocean, where the alga is one of the most abundant nitrogen-fixing organisms. The cyanobacterium proved impossible to cultivate in the laboratory, but Zehr's team nevertheless managed to sequence about 80% of its genome, including the section that contains the genes used in photosynthesis. The results were surprising, the authors say, because UCYN-A is very different from other known cyanobacteria. UCYN-A lacks the genes for photosystem II, the molecular equipment that breaks down water and releases oxygen during photosynthesis. This absence explains how UCYN-A is able to fix nitrogen during the day.
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Labels: Algae-Cultivation, Algae-Fuel-Research
Blue Marble Energy Turns Toxic Algae Blooms into Alternative Energy
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Most algae-to-energy company's research focus on creating biofuels for cars or jets. Instead of liquid fuel, Blue Marble wants to convert algae into natural gas and biochemicals.
Along with private investment, Blue Marble has a contract with the Washington Department of Ecology to collect sea lettuce at two bays in Puget Sound. The department's Alice Kelly watched the recent harvest from the beach. She says her agency hopes this gets rid of the rotten egg smell neighbors have been complaining about without harming the fragile near-shore ecosystem and the creatures that live there.
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Labels: Algae-Energy-Companies, Algae-Harvesting
OriginOil Named Among Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies
You are at: Oilgae Blog.OriginOil, Inc. (OTCBB: OOIL ), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, announced that the company has been named as one of the Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies by the New Energy Congress. NEC ranks OriginOil as the top algae company.
The New Energy Congress is an association of energy professionals from around the world who review the most promising claims to existing and up-and-coming energy technologies that are clean, renewable, affordable, reliable, easy to implement and safe. From this ongoing review, NEC generates its Global Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies listing (http://Top100Energy.com).
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Labels: Algae-Energy-Companies
Dr Reddy's Developing Algae Technology in India
You are at: Oilgae Blog.Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories is developing large scale algae production using the carbon dioxide from the company's boiler stacks.
Although the project is still at the laboratory stage, the aim is to convert the algae into biodiesel.It is also working on extracting fats from the sludge of effluent treatment plants for producing biodiesel helping to counter the problems related to activated sludge disposal.
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