Biofuels from Algae Project – Brunswick Community College Center for Aquaculture & Biotechnology
ncbionetwork.org Brunswick Community College’s (BCC) Center for Aquaculture and Biotechnology (CAB) has implemented a Biofuels from Algae project as a joint effort between the departments of Aquaculture and Biotechnology. This included the design and construction of an 1800 gallon photobioreactor system during phase 1 of the project. Phase II focused on the downstream processing of oil extraction. BCC’s CAB has a patent pending status on this process, which is purely mechanical, easily scalable and relatively cheap to implement. The final phase of the project (pending funding) will optimize and refine the oil extraction process, which will give us the opportunity to file a full patent, license the patent to industry or develop a trade secret with an industry partner, which will quickly move the process to commercialization. If the final phase is funded we will also obtain data on the yield of oil production, yield to biodiesel conversion, chemical composition of the extracted oil and determine the best species for use in the process developed at BCC. For more information, go online to http or ncbionetwork.org.
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Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) is a 501 C3 private public partnership that builds and strengthens scientific and education infrastructure in areas of greatest strategic importance to the state These areas comprise advanced communications, biomedicine and sustainable systems including renewable energies. In this video, SFAz has teamed with researchers at Arizona State University to utilize tiny microorganisms that take advantage of the abundant southwest sunshine to produce a high energy biofuel for airplanes and jets. This renewable energy technology will lessen our dependence on foreign oil and has an estimated yield many times greater than corn or other plant -based approaches to biofuel development. For more information please go to www.sfaz.org. In the video are Arizona State University researchers Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld and William C. Harris, President and CEO Science Foundation Arizona.
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