Diversified Energy® Desert Sweet Biofuels - Arizona, USA. 064_Desert Sweet Biofuels 4.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Dao Energy, LLC. | Algae Bio-Fuels | Natural Energy | dao-energy.com. AIM Interview: DAO Energy’s David Dubyne. Money AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com n 2008 David DuByne helped start and run an algae biodiesel company, Dao Energy, LLC, in Chengdu city of Sichuan Province, in western China. Their concept was to use low cost labor and materials within China to mass produce recyclable floating bag grow-out units on fish farm water surfaces, theoretically driving down installation costs to around $4-5 dollars per square meter.
“Our company started off explosively, straight to the moon!” Long story short, “In the end Tongwei stole our idea and went it alone,” he says. David’s six years in China have given him the chance to experience social issues, economic trends and business norms that are complex and not easily understood by Westerners. A The ease of meeting high level officials with a single phone call, low labor costs and plentiful recyclable materials to construct machinery that could be customized within days from endless factory sources. A There is a saying in China, “Government is God.” Go to Page. Dao Energy, LLC. | Algae Bio-Fuels | Natural Energy | dao-energy.com. Current Goals Bring the company to the stage of commercialization. Grow algae by using enclosed photo-bio reactors for the production of algae bio-crude oil, as well as carbon sequestration by means of flu-gas injecting CO2 into our grow-out units within China and worldwide.
Under current conditions, grant financing both private and government is readily available from all participating nationalities involved in this company including Australia's Department of Environment, E.U. LIFE fund; China's Innovation Fund through the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM plus the U.S. Renewable Energy Stimulus Package. We will utilize this money to better position DAO Energy, LLC in this ground floor Carbon Sequestration and Algae Bio-diesel industry within Western China. [Top] The Background Oil depletion is now a proven, quantified fact, and worldwide oil production is declining at 3.5 percent per year.
The Product. Algae_pilot_project.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Columbia Energy Partners - Power Plant CCS. Since 2008, Columbia Energy Partners (CEP) has been working along with Portland General Electric (PGE) on a pilot project for the algae venture at the utility's Boardman facility in Morrow County. The 600-megawatt Boardman facility, about 150 miles east of Portland, is Oregon's only coal plant. It generates about one-fifth of PGE's power and is the state's largest stationary source of CO2, a major contributor to climate change. Image Courtesy: The experiment siphons off the coal plant's CO2 emissions and feeds them to six 12-foot-long tubs of algae in adjacent flatbed truck.
During photo synthesis, the algae gobble up the CO2 and release oxygen into the air. Oil is squeezed out of the mature algae and used to produce a clean-burning biodiesel. Algae-based CO2 Live Projects. Biodiesel Magazine | biodieselmagazine.com. Columbia Energy Partners LLC is conducting its algae feasibility study at a coal-fired power plant in Oregon. The northwest portion of the United States isn't rife with cropland suitable for soybeans or other feedstocks ideal for biodiesel production, so industry members there have been more resourceful in their attempts to produce biodiesel. In Oregon, an algae-based project is underway that could ultimately serve as an example for industrial partnerships throughout the country.
Two years ago, Jon Norling, vice president of Washington-based renewable energy company Columbia Energy Partners LLC, began exploring an idea to produce biodiesel from algal oil generated by feeding algae carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant. Norling also serves as president of Portland Biodiesel LLC, a 1 MMgy biodiesel plant in Portland, Ore. Portland General Electric proved to be the ideal choice. Norling said the project is taking baby steps at Portland General Electric's request. Algae World Europe Interview with Augusto Rodríguez-Villa, President of AlgaEnergy. ALGAENERGY was founded in 2007 by several entrepreneurs with long and successful business careers. We dedicated our first efforts to become familiar with this sector and its potential, then we performed a SWOT analysis and defined the research and business strategy we wanted to implement. The next phase was to ensure that the company had stable agreements with collaborators and scientific advisers of the highest level.
All of this done, we had to provide the company with the substantial financial resources required to develop a strategic and business plan as ambitious as that of ALGAENERGY. Fortunately, we were able to add significantly to the initial resources by the entry in our shareholding of IBERDROLA, a world leader in renewable energy, in 2009 and then REPSOL, the prestigious multinational oil & gas producer, in 2010. We all know that humanity is suffering a triple crisis: food, energy and the environment.
CENIT-VIDA. Algaenergy_original.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Lab.CO2BIOCAP. Watch Joe Dahmen - Bodega Algae | MIT Visual Arts Program Episodes. Bodega Algae: Biomass to Biofuel, BiodiverCity Exhibition. Bodega Algae: Biomass to Biofuel Amanda Parkes, Sam Hill, Joe Dahmen, Robin Kodner – biofuel bodegaalgae.com Microalgae are single cellular photosynthetic organisms, using water, C02, and sunlight to turn inorganic carbon from the atmosphere into biomass. As algae cells grow and multiply, the solution changes from a translucent light green to an opaque dark green.
Each algae cell has a significant amount of lipids. Algae has been studied extensively by the United States Aquatic Species Program which was first established by President Carter in 1978 in response to the domestic energy crisis in the mid 1970’s. Bodega_Algae.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Bodega Algae LLC / Efficient Scalable Algae Photobioreactors. Joe Dahmen. Bodega Algae, LLC is a developer of a scalable continuous flow photobioreactor that grows large volumes of microalgae for use in the production of biofuel. The core innovation of the company is a provisionally patented lighting technology adapted from the video-projection industry that distributes light throughout the tank of the closed bioreactor. Preliminary research indicates that the bioreactor will increase algae production by two orders of magnitude over current open-pond reactors, and four times over closed tank reactors, by increasing the quantity of light necessary to algal photosynthesis.
The Bodega photobioreactor is designed to be modular and stackable, allowing it to be co-located on the premises of industrial plants to grow algae at optimal rates with minimal use of real estate. The reactor uses nutrients drawn from a variety of waste streams to grow the algae. Microalgae has significant advantages when compared to conventional oil crop feedstocks. Biodiesel - Ethanol - Renewable Energy - Clean Energy - Alternative Fuels - Biofuels - Alternative Energy - Circle Bio - Algae - Alga - Algae Biodiesel - Algae Biofuels - Biodiesel Processor.