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I came across an interesting article on a commonly found macroalgae - kelp on the Epoch Times.
Kelp—the Wonder Plant - This article highlights the various application of kelp.
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Algae are widely investigated with biodiesel production. While numerous companies are working to break barriers associated with commercial-scale algal biodiesel production, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Genifuel Corp. have embraced algae, or aquatic biomass, for a different purpose—natural gas production.
The companies are working to perfect a catalytic gasification process, which U.S. DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently granted Genifuel an exclusive license for, and to develop a technique to efficiently grow and harvest aquatic biomass for use as a feedstock.
The companies think their process, which was originally developed as a technique to clean up industrial and food processing waste as an alternative to incineration, will be more efficient than other methods of gasifying biomass.
Now, it’s just a matter of maintaining funding while fine-tuning and scaling up the system to prove it can be commercially viable.
Governor Charlie Crist encouraged investment in Florida’s renewable energy industry while addressing attendees in Orlando at the 2009 Farm to Fuel Summit, hosted by Commissioner Charles Bronson and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Governor Crist praised investors and producers of ethanol and biofuels for their efforts to develop renewable energy.
In addition to funding research related to the production of ethanol using crops such as sorghum and citrus peel waste Florida is also investing in projects that focus on farming techniques that minimize the need for water and fertilizer.
Florida’s recent investments include research on biodiesel production from advanced energy crops such as jatropha and algae. Governor Crist highlighted that careful study of these second generation biofuels is part of an integrated solution for meeting Florida's future energy needs that also includes improving fuel economy, designing communities around smart growth principles and promoting mass transportation and conservation.
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The algae is grown in ponds and produced at a SunEco pilot plant in Chino, California.
The company has been working on a proprietary process for making the oil for more than five years, and has scaled it up from beakers to barrels, according to Dan Gautschi, chairman and CEO. The process yields a high-quality animal feed supplement as a byproduct.
J.B. Hunt provides transportation services to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The two companies have signed a cooperative agreement, which could lead to J.B. Hunt becoming a significant purchaser of biodiesel made from SunEco algae oil, officials say.
SunEco launched its first large scale project in California’s Imperial Valley, at a former fish farm near the town of Niland. The development sits on more than 350 acres of land, with 200 acres of ponds, and is under expansion.
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Press Release:
Registration for Premier Algae Industry Conference Now Open
2009 Algae Biomass Summit
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2009 Algae Biomass Summit announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., renowned scientist and CEO of Synthetic Genomics Inc (SGI), will be the keynote speaker at this year’s event. The Algae Biomass Summit is the official conference of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) and takes place this year October 7-9 in San Diego. Registration for the conference is now available at www.algalbiomass.org.
The Algae Biomass Summit is the algae industry’s premier global conference and is designed to highlight scientific advances and encourage knowledge sharing to accelerate the development of algae-based solutions for global energy, environmental and economic issues.
Dr. Venter, who is well known as a leader in genomics for sequencing the first draft human genome in 2001 and his complete human genome in 2007, is the co-founder of SGI, which is dedicated to using genomic-driven advances to address a variety of global issues including energy and the environment. SGI recently announced a $600 million alliance with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company to develop next generation biofuels using photosynthetic algae. Prior to this announcement, SGI announced deals with BP in exploring biological conversion of subsurface hydrocarbons and a deal with Malaysian company ACGT to explore oil producing crops such as oil palm and jatropha. His presentation at the Algal Biomass Summit is titled “From reading to writing the genetic code.”
“Dr. Venter is a scientific pioneer and strong advocate for next generation biofuels,” said Mary Rosenthal, executive director of the Algal Biomass Organization. “He is applying his success with genomes in ways that have the potential to help algae-based solutions deliver on the promise of renewable and sustainable energy.”
In 1995 Dr. Venter and his team of researchers decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole genome shotgun technique. Since then, he and his teams have now sequenced hundreds of genomes using his techniques and tools.
Dr. Venter, formerly a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is the author of more than 200 research articles and the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and the 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Venter has also been selected twice to Time Magazine's “Time 100” list of the most influential people in the world.
More information, including registration forms, for the 2009 Summit is available on the website at: http://www.algalbiomass.org/ABS09.html.
Source: Business Wire
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Press Release:
Registration for Premier Algae Industry Conference Now Open
2009 Algae Biomass Summit
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2009 Algae Biomass Summit announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., renowned scientist and CEO of Synthetic Genomics Inc (SGI), will be the keynote speaker at this year’s event. The Algae Biomass Summit is the official conference of the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) and takes place this year October 7-9 in San Diego. Registration for the conference is now available at www.algalbiomass.org.
The Algae Biomass Summit is the algae industry’s premier global conference and is designed to highlight scientific advances and encourage knowledge sharing to accelerate the development of algae-based solutions for global energy, environmental and economic issues.
Dr. Venter, who is well known as a leader in genomics for sequencing the first draft human genome in 2001 and his complete human genome in 2007, is the co-founder of SGI, which is dedicated to using genomic-driven advances to address a variety of global issues including energy and the environment. SGI recently announced a $600 million alliance with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company to develop next generation biofuels using photosynthetic algae. Prior to this announcement, SGI announced deals with BP in exploring biological conversion of subsurface hydrocarbons and a deal with Malaysian company ACGT to explore oil producing crops such as oil palm and jatropha. His presentation at the Algal Biomass Summit is titled “From reading to writing the genetic code.”
“Dr. Venter is a scientific pioneer and strong advocate for next generation biofuels,” said Mary Rosenthal, executive director of the Algal Biomass Organization. “He is applying his success with genomes in ways that have the potential to help algae-based solutions deliver on the promise of renewable and sustainable energy.”
In 1995 Dr. Venter and his team of researchers decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole genome shotgun technique. Since then, he and his teams have now sequenced hundreds of genomes using his techniques and tools.
Dr. Venter, formerly a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is the author of more than 200 research articles and the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and the 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Venter has also been selected twice to Time Magazine's “Time 100” list of the most influential people in the world.
More information, including registration forms, for the 2009 Summit is available on the website at: http://www.algalbiomass.org/ABS09.html.
Source: Business Wire
In a unanimous vote, the Carlsbad City Council approved the purchase of a demonstration plant totaling $625,000 for the extraction of oil from algae.
In March, the city entered into an agreement with Carlsbad-based Center for Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management (CEHMM) to serve as fiscal agent in the administration of a grant obtained from CEHMM from the New Mexico Energy Innovation Fund totaling $1.1 million.
Lynn said CEHMM sought the services of vendors to provide the technologies and equipment necessary to extract oil from algae. He said eight vendors from around the world were contacted, but only one vendor, SRS Company, met the criteria and was able to demonstrate extraction of oil from algae, as well as make biodiesel from it.
The system to be built by SRS will be used to dewater and extract oil from algae at the CEHMM facility located at the New Mexico State University Agriculture Experimental Station located north of the city.
"We believe the bi-products from oil could be even bigger than the oil for fuel," Lynn said. "Our goal is to maximize everything we can to try to bring more jobs to Carlsbad. We don't plan to leave Carlsbad. All 22 of our current employees are from Carlsbad."
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Targeted Growth, one of the leaders in genetic research, is trying to boost the oil content. It has already created versions of cyanobacteria with 20 percent to 40 percent of their mass in lipid. Next year, it hopes to show that it can produce this type of algae in large enough quantities to support a pilot manufacturing facility. Ideally, Targeted will be able to show that its algae can produce 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of oil a year per acre and show a pathway to get to 4,000 to 6,000 gallons an acre a year.
Cyanobacteria, or blue green algae, are not incredibly oily. Only about 5 percent to 10 percent of their body mass in a natural state consists of lipids, which can be turned into biofuel, according to Margaret McCormick, general manager of the biobased materials unit at Targeted Growth. By contrast, some species of Botryococcus can achieve a lipid content of up to 70 percent to 80 percent after genetic engineering.
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The Raman-specific 1064 nanometres spectrometer resolves fluorescence issues seen at lower wavelengths:
Traditionally, these microalgae were treated in bulk, lyophilised or in extracted forms, making it impossible to assess the information on fundamental biological processes in the single-cell or sub-cellular level. Utilising the new 1064 nanometres Raman spectrometer, in situ, in vivo and label-free Raman characterisations of modelled algal lipids are made, extracted algal oil, and most importantly, single living algae. Studies have demonstrated a label-free and direct method to obtain quantitative information of chain length and degree of unsaturation of the oil produced inside algae. It also connects with the important issues of the cloud point and the quality of algal biodiesel. Single-cell, real-time, and in vivo study of algae, with various lipid-triggering mechanisms, enables the possibility of researching and engineering of the best conditions and the best species for algal growth and oil production.
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The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota has been awarded a subcontract by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to help produce jet fuel from algae. The effort is being funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and is a continuation of the first successful production of 100% renewable fuel for the U.S. military by the EERC.
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The company Joule Biotechnologies has developed a hybrid system that uses a solar concentrating converter that is filled with brackish water, nutrients and a “highly engineered synthetic organism,” to produce a bio-based fuel. The solar system, called a HelioCulture, concentrates sunlight onto the mixture, and the engineered photosynthetic organism (not algae) which converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ethanol or a hydrocarbon-based fuel called a “SolarFuel.”
Bill Sims, CEO of the company says cellulosic ethanol can produce 2,000 gallons per acre per year, while Joule’s SolarFuels can produce 20,000 gallons per acre per year.
The company hopes to break ground on a pilot plant in 2010, and a commercial-scale plant in either late 2011 or early 2012. Sims says the company had been in stealth mode until now in order to protect the company’s “revolutionary” concept.
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"We are growing algae and producing oil,However, we are not yet producing a usable product, because the algae have to be at a certain density." Solix Biofuels Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer Douglas Henston said in a telephone interview with Herald Staff Writer. ""
Henston said, the Coyote Gulch facility is perfect for the algae cultivation because of the amount of sun the region receives.
"We are using the oil that the algae create for diagnostic purposes right now," Henston said. "Our commercial partners are testing it to see how suitable it is in different (fuel) conversions."
Henston said Solix estimates the facility can produce 2,000 to 2,500 gallons per acre per year. The company said it wants to employ a total of 20 workers at the facility.
Henston said he doesn't know when the integration of algae-created oil will hit the market, but he hopes it will be soon."We hope that the transition of the platform to a large-scale, commercial production is right around the corner," he said.
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Indian and Canadian scientists are jointly researching means to use algae to generate oil and cut down greenhouse gases.The project involves researchers from the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and those from Canada-based Manitoba University.
But the first step, which CES researchers are involved in, is to identify which algae secrete more oil and to develop a method to genetically manipulate the identified algae to ensure they secrete more oil, according to TV Ramachandra, senior CES faculty member who is heading the IISc team in this venture.
The genetic manipulation would be done by the Manitoba University team. At the IISc lab, researchers are culturing algae to identify those yielding maximum oil.
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Press Release:
Fredrikson & Byron to Host Daylong
Midwest Algae Commercialization Conference on Aug. 18
On Tuesday, Aug. 18 Fredrikson & Byron will sponsor a Midwest Algae Commercialization conference. The conference will focus on algae as an emerging source for biofuels and carbon abatement, its commercialization and market opportunities, resources for algae development, funding mechanisms, and sustainability aspects.
“We believe the emerging algae industry offers many opportunities for both the private and public sectors of the Midwest,” says Todd Taylor, the lead biomass shareholder in Fredrikson & Byron’s Renewable Energy Group. “Many Midwest industries will benefit from commercializing algae, including energy, fuels, utilities, wastewater treatment, pollution control, biomaterials, and others concerned with carbon cap and trade.”’
The full-day conference will feature almost 30 presenters from various areas within the industry covering topics from research and development to the intellectual property issues related to algae production. Tim Zenk, vice president of corporate affairs for Sapphire Energy, will present a keynote presentation on The Lay of the Land (or Pond) for Algae. Sapphire Energy is a Calif.-based Algal biofuel company. For information on the company visit www.sapphireenergy.com .
The Midwest Algae Commercialization Workshop will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 18, from 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. at U.S. Bank Plaza, 40th Floor, 200 S. Sixth St., Minneapolis, Minn. The cost per person for the early-bird rate is $150 (register prior to July 28) and $200 after July 28. For more information on the workshop or to register, please visit www.fredlaw.com/events/algae or contact Heather King at hking@fredlaw.com or 612-492-7856.
Supporting organizations for the workshop include Byrne & Company, a renewable energy development company, and the Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE), a research center at the University of Minnesota. More information about the organizations can be found at, www.byrneltd.com and www.environment.umn.edu/iree .
Fredrikson & Byron is a 240-attorney law firm based in Minneapolis, with offices in Bismarck, Des Moines, Monterrey, Mexico, and Shanghai, China. More information about the firm is available at www.fredlaw.com.
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This interesting patent is about using sargassum seaweed for biofuel production - Method of Production of Biofuel from the Surface of the Open Ocean by Michael Markels
What is claimed is:
A method of producing biofuel from the surface of the ocean waters comprising the following steps:
(1) testing a water surface of an ocean to determine a time period that said water will remain for a biofuel generation;
(2) testing said water surface to determine a first nutrient that is missing to a first extent that limits the growth of a first plant life;
(3) applying said first missing nutrient in a form that remains available to said first plant life;
(4) harvesting a first harvested portion of an increased biomass of said first plant life that results from said applying;
(5) removing a first returnable portion from said first harvested portion to leave a remainder of said first harvested portion, and spreading said first returnable portion on said water surface; and
(6) processing said remainder of said first harvested portion into a biofuel component.
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An interesting patent filed on Aug 18, 2008 is about "Integrated Process of Algae Cultivation and Production of Diesel Fuel from Biorenewable feedstocks"
According to the claims, the said integrated process comprises the following :
a) treating the renewable feedstock in a reaction zone by hydrogenating and deoxygenating the feedstock using at least one catalyst at reaction conditions in the presence of hydrogen to provide a reaction zone product stream comprising hydrogen, carbon dioxide, water and a paraffins having from about 8 to about 24 carbon atoms;
b) cooling the reaction zone product stream and separating to provide:
i) a gaseous component comprising at least hydrogen and carbon dioxide;
ii) a hydrocarbon product comprising the paraffins; and
iii) a water component;
c) recovering the hydrocarbon product;
d) separating the gaseous component comprising at least hydrogen and carbon dioxide into a stream comprising hydrogen and a stream comprising carbon dioxide; and
e) passing the stream comprising carbon dioxide to an algae cultivation operation and using the carbon dioxide stream to cultivate algae.
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The cow's manure from the Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport is used to produce power through the digester at the south side of the barns and some of the liquid manure has also been sent over to a mini greenhouse for growing algae.
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The Oil giant Exxon Mobile to plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae. The biofuel effort involves a partnership with Synthetic Genomics, a biotechnology company founded by the genomics pioneer J.Craig Venter.
“Algae is the ultimate biological system using sunlight to capture and convert carbon dioxide into fuel,” Dr. Venter said.
Algal biofuel, sometimes nicknamed oilgae by environmentalists, is a promising technology. Fuels derived from algae have molecular structures that are similar to petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and would be compatible with the existing transportation infrastructure, according to Exxon.
Exxon’s investment includes $300 million for in-house studies and “potentially more” than $300 million to Synthetic Genomics “if research and development milestones are successfully met,” Exxon said.
Source: The New York Times
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Press Release:
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that she has included $2 million for clean energy algae biofuels research at Washington State University in the fiscal year 2010 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill.
“This funding will support cutting-edge research that will create jobs and continue to position Washington state as a leader in the clean energy economy,” said Senator Patty Murray. “It provides a shot in the arm for Washington state biofuels research, and will help our country move toward cleaner and more efficient energy use.”
The WSU Algae Biofuels project is a partnership between WSU and the Seattle-based Targeted Growth Inc. It will create high-skill jobs in both Pullman and the Puget Sound area and provide researchers with the resources they need to develop new, energy-efficient algal fuel sources. Algae is a particularly promising candidate for fuel use, as its efficiency in capturing solar energy results in higher productivity per unit area than a traditional biofuel energy crop.
“Washington State University is committed to partnering with the clean-technology sector to find innovative solutions for supplying energy and improving environmental quality,” said Howard Grimes, the WSU Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. “This funding will allow our scholars and partners to apply their knowledge to solve problems and create economic opportunity in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the world.”
The funding was included in the Energy and Water Development fiscal year 2010 spending bill. Having passed the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee today, the bill will now go to the full Appropriations Committee before going to the full Senate for consideration.
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The marine engineer expert Mark Capron of PODenergy has a related but different scheme. His plan is to establish giant "forests" of kelp seaweed at the surface of the ocean. These would be harvested and placed into plastic "stomachs" – essentially large plastic bags – suspended in the sea. Natural bacteria in the stomachs would digest the kelp, breaking it down into CO2 and methane. The two gases would be separated, with the CO2 sent to the deep ocean for permanent storage and the methane piped to the surface for use as a renewable heating and cooking fuel.
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New Jersey-based Garden State Ethanol has selected a landfill site in Woodbine, Philadelphia, for the location of a $200 million (€142 million) biofuel plant that would use more than 100 bioreactor tanks to convert algae into ethanol and biodiesel oil.
Garden State Ethanol is currently seeking funds for the project. If approved, work on the plant may begin as early as next year.
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The Center of Excellence for Hazardous Materials Management moved its Algae Biofuels Project from pilot scale to the commercial demonstration level.
This facility is located on the grounds of the New Mexico State University Agriculture Science Center south of Artesia. This phase of the project expects to be in full operation by Sep 1, producing algae that will be harvested and processed into biodiesel fuel.
The project has the potential to produce 5,000 gallons of oil per acre per year, according to Doug Lynn, executive director of CEHMM.
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Ag-Oil will develop a state-of-the-art biofuel refinery and a commercial scale oilseed processing facility on their existing Jatropha plantation. This project has the potential to yield an annual capacity of 15 million gallons of bio-diesel while utilizing production equipment which easily processes multiple feedstocks. “The continuous flow technology - A solid catalyst that can drive the chemical reactions) developed by UEE to produce algae biodiesel and other non-food oilseed based biodiesel will allow for faster and cheaper production of bio-diesel,” said Ben Wen, Vice President of UEE. “We will also be implementing ANL’s glycerin desalinization process which will ensure successful long-term recycling of the water and increase overall fuel production by about 10%. We have partnered with some of the best minds in this field.
Ag-Oil anticipates utilizing a patented technology that will allow augmentation of biofuel output by as much as 60% using the same oilseed feedstock input by recycling biomass that is ordinarily considered waste material. “Using algae for this purpose potentially holds several distinct advantages, Liang said. First, algae can provide at least 30 times as much lipids per acre as corn, meaning less space can be devoted to this purpose. Also, using algae would reduce the competition for other oil seeds -- such as corn and soybeans.”
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Researchers at two centers in St. Louis are gearing up to launch five-year research programs on algae, backed by U.S. DOE grants. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center received $15 million and Washington University $20 million from the DOE’s fund for Energy Frontier Research Centers. A total of 46 centers were funded from a pool of some 260 applications.
Danforth’s Center for Advanced Biofuels Systems will be led by Richard Sayre. Sayre said the new team of researchers will be studying the conversion of energy captured from photosynthesis in the single cell algae and how it is channeled into oil.
The Washington University project will focus on the biophysics of light while the Danforth Center project focuses on biochemical conversion of that light into oil. Both programs are hiring personnel and organizing to officially launch the programs in August.
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Along with colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, Dr. Richard Gordon argues in a new paper, titled "Milking Diatoms for Sustainable Energy," that diatoms – a type of algae found in oceans and lakes – could even be engineered to secrete gasoline directly.
Gordon and his scientist colleagues have a problem with the current algae-to-fuel approach, in that it relies on the harvesting of algae as they rapidly reproduce. The harvested algae are then dried – that is, killed – and put through a series of production processes.
They go on to propose a way to alter the cells of diatoms, through genetic manipulation, to "actively secrete their own oil droplets." These engineered diatoms could then be bred in a type of solar panel designed to optimize conditions for photosynthesis and oil production.
As the diatoms gain mass by converting solar energy into oil, they will reach a stage where they automatically secrete oil droplets. Those droplets would then rise to the top, making the oil fairly simple to collect. It would be "very similar to the cream that rises to the top of mammalian milk that has not been homogenized," according to the study, published this month in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
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Solix Biofuels is adding another $1.3 million to its Series A financing round, and announcing plans to start a commercial-scale demonstration of its technology within two months in southwestern Colorado.
These new funds bringing the company’s total Series A to $16.8 million — come from international investment group Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd., or SAIL, and point to expansion in Asia. That’s the plan, anyway, according to Solix CEO Doug Henston. In a release this morning, he said a relationship with SAIL will help Solix deploy its technology internationally, particularly in Asia.
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The Dow Chemical Company is planning to team up with Algenol Biofuels to build and operate an algae-based integrated bio-refinery to produce ethanol.
Algenol submitted a formal request for a grant from the US Department of Energy last week with the intention of building a refinery that would be based at Dow’s Freeport site in Texas. If the grant is approved, Dow and other collaborators will work with Algenol to demonstrate the technology to prove it can be implemented on a commercial scale.
Dow is also planning to develop the advanced materials and speciality forms for the photo-bioreactor system, as well as providing the technology and expertise to water treatment solutions and giving Algenol access to a carbon dioxide (CO2) source for the bio-refinery from a nearby manufacturing facility.
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