11 2010
Unilever and Solazyme to jointly develop oils from algae
Solazyme, Inc., a renewable oil and bioproducts company, has signed a research and development agreement with Unilever to develop oil derived from algae for use in soaps and other personal care products. The agreement follows the culmination of a yearlong collaboration between Solazyme and Unilever, in which Solazyme’s renewable algal oils were tested successfully in Unilever product formulations.
“Algal oil provides important benefits in personal care applications,” explained Jonathan Wolfson, CEO of Solazyme. “Solazyme’s algal oils can help meet the growing demand for completely renewable, natural and sustainable personal care products. Unilever is an acknowledged world leader in sustainability and we are honored to be working with them to develop this new renewable source of natural oils for their world class consumer products.”
12 2010
Bodega Algae and Bigelow Lab land SBIR grant
Massachusetts-based Bodega Algae LLC and West Boothbay Harbor, Maine-based Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have been awarded a six-month Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant worth $150,000 from the National Science Foundation. The award will support the two firms’ development of advanced photobioreactors in growing algae for use as a biofuel.
The SBIR grant, called “Light Delivery Enhancement of Photobioreactors,” will initially target issues of mass cultivation of algae to make into biofuel.
28 2010
US West Coast Companies Partner to Produce Biochemicals from Microalgae
Under a new partnership, Seattle-based Blue Marble Energy Corp. will produce its biochemicals using a supply of microalgae from algae producer Bionavitas, Redmond, Washington.
28 2010
Biodiesel catalyst technology company announces new algae project
Biodiesel catalyst technology company Catilin Inc. announced a new three-year, $5.3 million project as part of the $44 million U.S. DOE Investment for Advanced Biofuels Research and Fueling Infrastructure award made to Catilin’s consortium, National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts.
Catilin and its partner, Iowa State University-Center for Catalysis, will provide key extraction, sequestration and conversion technologies. The NAABB consortium is made up of 26 groups from both the private and public sector and is led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.
19 2009
150mpg Algae-Powered Toyota Prius
First algae fuel-powered vehicle in the world was officially launched in San Francisco. The car, called Algaeus is a modified Toyota Prius, which derives power from green crude, from Sapphire Energy. The car runs on an astonishing 150 miles per gallon of green fuel.
13 2009
DOE to accelerate algae-based biofuel development
The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a solicitation through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 where $35 million was dedicated to advanced biofuels and $50 million to algal biofuels.
To assess the current state of algae technology and determine the next steps toward commercialization of algal biofuel processes, the DOE is developing the National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap, which will be ready for publication in late December.
13 2009
Researchers turn algae into high-temperature hydrogen source
In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-energy process that outweighs the benefits of not using petroleum to power vehicles.
New findings from a team of researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, however, show that photosynthesis – the process by which plants regenerate using energy from the sun – may function as that clean, sustainable source of hydrogen.
06 2009
Fish-to-Fuel in Vietnam
Finland-based VTT is teaming up with a fish processor in Vietnam to make fuel from waste. The ENERFISH project, expected to be complete by 2011, will use as feedstock the 120,000 kilograms (264,555 pounds) of fish waste turned out daily by the Hiep Thanh Seafood JSC fish processing plant in Vietnam’s Mekong River delta region.
06 2009
Using Fish to Harvest Algae for Oil and Protein
LiveFuels, based in California, is using their 10 million dollar in funding to try things differently in growing and harvesting algae. It feeds the algae to the fish and lets the fish work on harvesting it. After the fish fatten up, they are caught in nets and processed for oil and protein used in animal feed. LiveFuels is testing different breeds of fish and researching when would be the optimum time to harvest the fish.
16 2009
Norway’s StatoilHydro funds algae project in US
Norwegian energy company StatoilHydro has invested $3 million in the Chesapeake Algae Project (ChAP) in Virginia.
The College of William and Mary and its Virginia Institute of Marine Science have formed the collaborative research initiative to investigate a promising new technology to produce biofuel from the algae growing naturally in rivers and the Chesapeake Bay.
The enterprise is an integrated research approach to algae-based energy production and environmental remediation. Other key partners are the Williamsburg energy advisory firm Blackrock Energy, the University of Maryland, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Arkansas and HydroMentia, a Florida company that works with water-treatment technologies.
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