- Algal biodiesel is one of
the only avenues available for high-volume re-use of CO2 generated in
power plants. It is a technology that marries the potential need for
carbon disposal in the electric utility industry with the need for
clean-burning alternatives to petroleum in the transportation
sector.
- The production of algae
to harvest oil for biodiesel has not yet been undertaken on a commercial
scale, but feasibility studies have been conducted to arrive at the
above yield estimate. In addition to its projected high yield,
algaculture — unlike crop-based biofuels — does not entail a decrease in
food production, since it requires neither farmland nor fresh
water.
- The big problem has
been figuring out how to collect and press the algae, and in the case of
open ponds, to prevent contamination by invasive species.
- Algal-oil processes into
biodiesel as easily as oil derived from land-based crops. The
difficulties in efficient biodiesel production from algae lie not in the
extraction of the oil, which can be done using methods common to the
food-industry such as hexane extraction, but in finding an algal strain
with a high lipid content and fast growth rate that isn't too difficult
to harvest, and a cost-effective cultivation system that is best suited
to that strain.
- The ponds in which the
algae are cultivated are usually what are called the “raceway ponds”. In
these ponds, the algae, water & nutrients circulate around a
racetrack. With paddlewheels providing the flow, algae are kept
suspended in the water, and are circulated back to the surface on a
regular frequency.
- In Europe, biodiesel
represents 2% of total transportation consumption and is expected to
reach 6% by 2010.
- According to CEO of a
biodiesel company algae could theoretically produce 10,000 gallons of
oil per acre, compared with 680 gallons per acre for palm, the current
highest-oil-yielding crop
- The global market for
biodiesel is poised for explosive growth in the next ten years. Although
Europe currently represents 90% of global biodiesel consumption and
production, the U.S. is now ramping up production at a faster rate than
Europe, and Brazil is expected to surpass U.S. and European biodiesel
production by the year 2015. It is possible that biodiesel could
represent as much as 20% of all on-road diesel used in Brazil, Europe,
China and India by the year 2020.
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Algae Cultivation for Diesel
Production
- Algae BioFuels
- Algaculture
- Apparatus for Cultivating
Algae
- Cultivating Algae for
Liquid Fuel Production
- Photosynthesis and
Optimizing Algae Growth in a Bioreactor
- Equipment for Growing
Algae
- Production of
Algae
- Cultivation of Algae Strains for oil
Technology
- Biodiesel from
Algae
- Photobioreactor
Technology for Microalgae Cultivation
- Blue Hydrogen
- GreenShift Acquires Rights to Patented Carbon Dioxide
Reduction Technology
- A Look Back at the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Aquatic Species Program
- A New Technique to
Harvest Microalgae ?
Investment
Details
- The Controlled
Eutrophication Process
- Biodiesel
- Firm plans to produce
biodiesel from algae
- SA Company says it Will Make Biodiesel from
Algae
- Algae — like a breath mint for
smokestacks
- Widescale
Biodiesel Production from Algae
Algae Oil
Extraction
- From Algae to
Bio-diesel
- The Emissions to
Biofuels™ process
- Emissions-to-Biofuels
Opportunities for Power and Manufacturing Plants
- Oil Products from
Algae
- Process for the
Production of Ethanol from Algae
- Algae bioreactors that
tackle CO2 emissions
- Biodiesel from Algae
- Algae Oil
Extraction
- Oil from Algae
- Biofuel
Production
- Oil production
- Algae : An Oil Crop of
Future
- Research
Project
Projects
- Biodiesel
Project
- Algae Oil
- Enitechnologie R&D
Project on Microalgae Biofixation of CO2.
- A Mini-Manhattan
Project
- The SuperChachi
Project
- Algae ponds at wastewater
treatment plants
- Project Updates
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Equipment and Raw
Materials
- Bioking
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Benzene
Suppliers
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Suppliers
- Oil Mill Machinery &
Equipment
- Centrifuges
Suppliers
- Oil Press
Suppliers
- Supercritical
Reactors
Market
- Algae Biofuel From
Sewage
- Biodiesel 2020: A Global
Market Survey
- A Glimpse of the Future
for Biodiesel
- Biodiesel - World
Production
- Green Algae as Fuel
Factories
- India Biofuels Market
Poised To Boom
- Poop-Grown Algae to Fuel Cars?
- Want Alternate Energy?
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Company
Profiles
- Solazyme
- Aquaflow Bionomic
Corporation
- Enhanced Biofuels & Technologies
- GS AgriFuels
- Infinifuel
Biodiesel
- PetroAlgae
- Solix Biofuels
- GreenFuel Technologies
Corporation
- Valcent Products,
Inc
Consultants
- American Society of
Limnology and Oceanography
- Biodiesel Consulting
Firms
- Bioworld
Products
- Fisheries Technology
Associates
- Business
Directory
- Ronore Enterprises,
Inc.
- Ripley D. Fox
- Sturgeon
Reports
- An algae-based
fuel
- An Industrial
Photobioreactor for Commercial Production of Algae Based
Biodiesel
- Big reactor, big
reactions
- 2006 Investor
Kit
- PetroSun Subsidiary to
Commence Field Testing for Algae-Based Biodiesel Production
- Growing fuel from
algae
- World’s First Sample Of
Bio-Diesel From Algae
- News Updates
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