Report
Washington State University Algae Biofuels Research
12/29/2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/118476
Abstract
The goal of this project was to advance algal technologies for the production of biofuels and biochemicals by establishing the Washington State Algae Alliance, a collaboration partnership among two private companies (Targeted Growth, Inc. (TGI), Inventure Chemicals (Inventure) Inc (now Inventure Renewables Inc) and Washington State University (WSU). This project included three major components. The first one was strain development at TGI by genetically engineering cyanobacteria to yield high levels of lipid and other specialty chemicals. The second component was developing an algal culture system at WSU to produce algal biomass as biofuel feedstock year-round in the northern states of the United States. This system included two cultivation modes, the first one was a phototrophic process and the second a heterotrophic process. The phototrophic process would be used for algae production in open ponds during warm seasons; the heterotrophic process would be used in cold seasons so that year-round production of algal lipid would be possible. In warm seasons the heterotrophic process would also produce algal seeds to be used in the phototrophic culture process. Selected strains of green algae and cyanobacteria developed by TGI were tested in the system. The third component was downstream algal biomass processing by Inventure that included efficiently harvesting the usable fuel fractions from the algae mass and effectively isolating and separating the usable components into specific fractions, and converting isolated fractions into green chemicals.
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Details
- Title
- Washington State University Algae Biofuels Research
- Creators
- Shulin chen - Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States). Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering] (ORCID:0000000339063888Margaret McCormick - Targeted Growth, Inc., Seattle, WA (United States)Rusty Sutterlin - Inventure Renewables, Inc., Gig Harbor, WA (United States)Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
- Publisher
- United States
- Identifiers
- 99900583059601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report