Filed under: Biodiesel
AlgaeLink introduces 2nd generation algae bioreactors
There's a Biodiesel Expo coming up in Nottingham, England in October and Dutch company AlgaeLink will take the wraps off their latest bioreactors. The equipment is designed to grow algae for biodiesel production. Algae has much higher oil concentrations than other crops like corn, canola and soy and can yield twenty-five times the oil of canola.
The higher yields of algae means it displaces far fewer food crops than other biofuel feedstocks. Algae can also be grown year round and at a much higher rate. Algae can also absorb nitrogen from waste water which means that run-off from fertilized fields could be collected and used to feed the algae. The resultant output of the bio-reactors could come out cleaner than it went in.
[Source: AutoIndustry.co.uk]
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TgB 7:34PM (9/23/2007)
I have a feeling that this just might be a way of actually producing "green" biofuel. Other approaches so far really have been rather disappointing so far.
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Val 5:03AM (9/24/2007)
Algae has been the most promisig biofuel tech so far, it is beyond me why it has gotten so little attention. Nobody seems to be willing to seriously invest in that one, it's all about the corn, soy, raps and whatever else could be subsidized. And it not only uses waste nitrogen, those algae also need huge quantities of CO2, so you can imagine what would happen if a few reactors were built near a coal powerplant
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Curtiss Martin 2:44PM (9/24/2007)
I'm happy to see that more and more companies are taking algal biofuel production seriously.
I'm interested as to how this bioreactor can integrate into the operations of Diversified Energy, XL Renewables and Originoil, etc. Also wondering if the bioreactor is able to accommodate and propagate various species/strains of algae or only a single, proprietary organism?
Feel free to nose around my most recent musing on algal oil @ http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/09/12/the-great-green-hope/
Thanks,
Curtiss Martin
Editor - Clean Technology
ScribeMedia.org
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noah 10:57AM (9/26/2007)
Hoooo0-yah biodiesel from algae! Yah I thought algae killed, the red kind, but then this these brilliant scientists used these algae folks to make diesel? Awww, thats crazy, BUT BRILLIANT! Who knows, maybe the efficiency can improve in the future and produce even more biodiesel! Next step, make more diesel vehicles accepting B100, or at least B20 (thats a good step forward).
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S.A.Alagarsamy 2:03AM (11/08/2007)
we are into Algae biofuel research using co2 available in our area...but we need partners with funds
alagarsamy
www.mgrbiodiesel.com
India
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John Mahler 10:17AM (6/01/2008)
This is a fantastic way to produce oil and refine it into biodiesel. The main issue is to be able to produce this oil on an industrial scale. If it so the case I am interested to develop such projects on a great scale.
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Louis Brocker 2:17PM (6/28/2008)
it is amazing that oil companies aparently have so much power to keep algae projects on hold, it looks like it is the solution for years and the central government is acting like it doesn't exist
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Vr Ganni 10:01AM (8/19/2008)
Please send us the economics, ie cost of estalblishing an unit and production cost depending upon the season.
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