Carbon Capture Corporation is privately held and is located in La Jolla, near San Diego California.  The company operates a 40-acre algae research center in Imperial Valley, about 100 miles (160 km) inland of San Diego where various algae strains are produced in large open ponds with capacity up to 240,000-gallon (67,000 liters).  Strains are [...]

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Professor Avigad Vonshak is the Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) The BIDR is the research arm of Ben-Gurion University which studies the problems of Desertification and tries to develop new methodologies that will help in preventing Desertification and promote sustainable development of drylands. He is a member of the [...]

Murdoch University has a strong focus on sustainable industries and renewable energy. Professor Borowitzka and his Algae Research Group have been involved in the study of microalgae for commercial applications, especially the production of high value fine chemicals for over 30 years. The group has also been working on algae for lipid production, including the [...]

Nexant is an independent international energy consulting company with about 300 professional consultants in offices located around the world, including San Francisco, New York, Houston, London, Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Buenos Aires. 
Nexant includes Chem Systems which was acquired in 2001 and has been providing management consulting services to the petroleum and chemical industry [...]

Since 2001, Ingrepro B.V. has been actively involved in the development and exploitation of state-of-the-art High Yield Algal Ponds for the production of tailor-made algae.
Ingrepro has two production sites, and is the leading industrial algae producer of Europe.
Ingrepro has highly qualified employees and closely cooperates with major industries world wide.
Ingrepro consists of three divisions: Ingrepro [...]

Holcim is the world’s largest cement and aggregate manufacturer, with operations in 80 countries across the world. They have developed expertise in pre-processing hazardous and non hazardous waste to be used in their cement plants as an alternate to fuel.
Their group company ACC Ltd., India have supported the endeavor to develop laboratory stage bio reactor [...]

Euro-Latin Capital has been focusing on the Biofuels industry during the last few years; particularly in Argentina, Brazil and the US, and has developed a globally recognized expertise, especially in the biodiesel space. Euro-Latin Capital has acted as investment manager for a large Argentine project at port site for exports, which will eventually reach 500’000 [...]

Biodiesel Industries, Inc., is a company founded by Mr Russell Teall over ten years ago for the purpose of developing and commercializing biodiesel production technology. Under Mr. Teall’s leadership, Biodiesel Industries has successfully evolved patented biodiesel production techniques for a wide variety of feedstocks.
Beginning with laboratory scale demonstrations, it eventually lead to full scale commercial [...]

Founded in the late 19th century, the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) belongs to the first generation of European marine laboratories. It is now located at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban, in the West Highlands of Scotland, on the Firth of Lorne, one of the largest fjord / sea loch systems in Scotland. Together [...]

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Dr. Farag is the director and founder of the UNH Biodiesel Group and of the New Hampshire Pollution Prevention Internship Program. In Sept 1976 he joined the faculty at University of New Hampshire (UNH) after receiving his doctorate of Science (Sc.D.) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) in Chemical Engineering. [...]

Massey University is New Zealand’s premiere and largest institution for the life sciences, agricultural, horticultural and veterinary teaching and research and is a leader in industrial innovation through areas such as food science and technology, biotechnology and material sciences. Microalgae biotechnology research program at Massey University is based in its School of Engineering. This program [...]

OriginOil, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum. Much of the world’s oil and gas is made up of ancient algae deposits.
Today, our technology will produce “new oil” from algae, through a cost-effective, high-speed manufacturing process. This endless supply [...]

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Dr. Benemann has worked in the area of biofuels, in particular microalgae biofuels, greenhouse gas abatement and environmental biotechnologies, for over 30 years.  He was a participant in the US Dept. of Energy “Aquatic Species Program” and was a principal author of the final report of that program. Among other activities, for the past [...]