In Climate Spectators recent article – ‘You can have your carbon and eat it too’, Riggs Eckelberry, the head of the US firm OriginOil said that Australia has a bright future owing to the perfect climatic conditions and is potentially the perfect venue for this rapidly expanding industry. Following the success of last year’s sell-out [...]

LOS ANGELES, Nov 16, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — OriginOil, Inc. (otc/bb:OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, today announced the Algae Appliance(TM), a commercial entry-level algae harvesting system that will help producers process algae at very low cost and [...]

Seambiotic, an Israeli-based leader in the development and production of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel industries in collaboration with the Israeli Electric Corporation was the first to confirm and patented the application of flue gas emitted and scrubbed from power plant smokestack for successful cultivation of microalgae. Seambiotic grows and processes marine microalgae [...]

Algaetech is embarking into a new venture, Pahang Biodiesel, on the development of what will be the world’s largest algae project on a 5,000 acres site in Rompin, Pahang. The farm will cost an estimated 1.2 billion ringgit, or $383 million. The farm will be initiated to set up in the first quarter of 2012 [...]

Alltech has built an impressive production facility in Winchester, Kentucky, USA for producing feed from algae. Equipped with a fully functional pilot plant it is a scaled-down replica of its large production system. Built in the 1980s to ferment yeast using whey produced by an adjacent dairy, Alltech bought it last year from Martek Biosciences [...]

“目前，中国是世界上温室气体排放量最高的国家，主要是由于中国70%的电量依靠煤炭来生产，而排入大气中的二氧化碳几乎未加捕获。 奥集团是一个以生产清洁能源为核心业务的企业集团，其旗下的新奥能源控股有限公司是目前国内最大的能源分销企业之一。截至2009年底，已经覆盖全国14个省88个城市，并在43个城市投运了160多个天然气加油站，为公共交通运输提供清洁能源。 先进的海藻技术，是新奥集团的最新突破之一。微藻的种类繁多，其中有一部分能够通过光和作用吸收二氧化碳，转化成油脂在细胞内储存。新奥培育筛选的，就是这部分能够产生油脂的藻类。 “我们培养的微藻，专门‘吃’二氧化碳，‘吐’出油脂。”新奥集团生物质能源技术中心总经理刘敏胜博士表示。” （原始报道：外滩画报，2011年09月15日） 新奥集团生物质能源技术中心总经理刘敏胜博士将在2011年11月15-16日出席CMT在北京举办的第4届 亚洲藻类研讨会（4th Algae World Asia – Beijing, 15-16 Nov 2011）。他将在会议中演讲“如何捕获煤发电厂废气，并利用当中的二氧化碳养殖微藻”。 此外，第4届 亚洲藻类研讨会将着重探讨以下论点： 如何策划一个即能提高微藻生产率并同时降低成本的商业规模 从从盈利角度探讨不同培殖系统的商业可行性 应用综合系统捕获发电厂废气中的二氧化碳的经济可能性 如何应用煤发电厂废气培植微藻 韩国、日本和印尼的藻类市场发展和最新报道 如何将浮动型的光生物反应器商业化 在各种污水大规模培植微藻，用来处理废水和生产生物燃料 用藻类生物质作为高质量蛋白质的鱼和动物饲料 从微藻生物质中提炼出高价值产品，如：化妆品、保健品、食品、药物、等。 演讲单位包括： Algasol Renewables 公司、Phyco Biosciences 公司、 新奥科技发展有限公司– 生物质能源研究中心 （ENN Group）、韩国高等科学技术研究院（KAIST）– 化学和生物分子工程系、AlgaeTech 公司、北京雷力农用化学有限公司（Alganovo/ Leili Nature）、以色列 Seambiotic 公司、加洲洲立理工大学、美中清洁能源论坛 （US-China Clean Energy Forum）、Frost & Sullivan 公司、北京大学、清华大学、AquaInTech 公司、Alltech 亚太地区生物科技中心、OriginOil 公司、Eco-Solutions 公司 以及 Earthrise [...]

The first, simplest, and fastest-growing life form, algae holds unheralded promise to become a pivotal resource for the planet’s future as the basis for a high quality biodiesel that does not siphon food from humans. And it is not just a fuel. It is animal feed, human food and the building block for a wide [...]

Now that Algae World Australia is successfully completed, CMT is all raring to move on to the next exciting Algae World Series! – this time taking place in Beijing, China. To be held on the 15-16 November, the series will once again offer another invaluable site visit tour to the algae facility in Langfang, an [...]

YABULU nickel refinery and an Ayr prawn farm are among the North Queensland businesses who have expressed interest in new carbon-consuming algal technology. About 150 international delegates attending a world algae summit in Townsville yesterday toured the revolutionary Algal Research and Development Facility at James Cook University, where they were briefed on the project that [...]

Algae World Australia 2011 is on fast track to becoming a high profile event featuring top algae experts from leading research institutes, and commercial companies. Hence it presents golden opportunity to hear from, question & interact with the more than 100 participants confirmed coming to Townsville, Queensland! Here’s a quick look at who’s attending… Delegate [...]

In the Netherlands, Evodos announced that recent field measurements on its centrifugal systems machines showed that the energy requirement has dropped to below 1 kWh per cubic meter feed flow. The company said that this provides a positive energy balance in harvesting algae. Marco Brocken, CEO of Evodos says: “At energy cost of € 0,08/kWh [...]

Few weeks ago, CMT launched its AlgaeWorld Australia series which features an exclusive site visit to an on-going algae R&D centre. Since then, we received positive feedback on Algae industry in Australia and enquiries about the MBD-JCU Algal R&D Facility. And so, we decided to catch up with Andrew Lawson, Managing Director of MBD Energy [...]

Mr Macfarlane made his call on a trip to Townsville where he met with business leaders to discuss the tax. He also visited James Cook University to view a research project that eliminates carbon dioxide by feeding it to algae. Mr Macfarlane said, the JCU research project, in which CO2-fed algae were harvested for stockfeed, [...]

The Air Transport Association says airlines have gained technical approval to use fuel processed from algae and other organic waste and inedible plants for up to 50 per cent of their fuel needs, Bloomberg reports. The preliminary decision by ASTM International is expected to open up the $140 billion a year aviation fuel industry to [...]

The system will capture fuel-gas emitted from the coal-fired power station using a bio-based carbon capture storage device containing micro-algae. The micro-algae uses the captured CO2 to reproduce more algae biomass, which can then be used for fuel or plastics. The Tarong power station in Queensland will be able to process up to 300 gallons [...]