• Algal biodiesel is one of the only avenues available for high-volume re-use of CO2 generated in power plants. It is a technology that marries the potential need for carbon disposal in the electric utility industry with the need for clean-burning alternatives to petroleum in the transportation sector.
• The production of algae to harvest oil for biodiesel has not yet been undertaken on a commercial scale, but feasibility studies have been conducted to arrive at the above yield estimate. In addition to its projected high yield, algaculture — unlike crop-based biofuels — does not entail a decrease in food production, since it requires neither farmland nor fresh water.
• The big problem has been figuring out how to collect and press the algae, and in the case of open ponds, to prevent contamination by invasive species.
• Algal-oil processes into biodiesel as easily as oil derived from land-based crops. The difficulties in efficient biodiesel production from algae lie not in the extraction of the oil, which can be done using methods common to the food-industry such as hexane extraction, but in finding an algal strain with a high lipid content and fast growth rate that isn't too difficult to harvest, and a cost-effective cultivation system that is best suited to that strain.
• The ponds in which the algae are cultivated are usually what are called the “raceway ponds”. In these ponds, the algae, water & nutrients circulate around a racetrack. With paddlewheels providing the flow, algae are kept suspended in the water, and are circulated back to the surface on a regular frequency.
• In Europe, biodiesel represents 2% of total transportation consumption and is expected to reach 6% by 2010.
• According to CEO of a biodiesel company algae could theoretically produce 10,000 gallons of oil per acre, compared with 680 gallons per acre for palm, the current highest-oil-yielding crop
• The global market for biodiesel is poised for explosive growth in the next ten years. Although Europe currently represents 90% of global biodiesel consumption and production, the U.S. is now ramping up production at a faster rate than Europe, and Brazil is expected to surpass U.S. and European biodiesel production by the year 2015. It is possible that biodiesel could represent as much as 20% of all on-road diesel used in Brazil, Europe, China and India by the year 2020.

• Algae BioFuels
• Algaculture
• Apparatus for Cultivating Algae
• Cultivating Algae for Liquid Fuel Production
• Photosynthesis and Optimizing Algae Growth in a Bioreactor
• Equipment for Growing Algae
• Production of Algae
• Cultivation of Algae Strains for oil

Technology

• Biodiesel from Algae
• Photobioreactor Technology for  Microalgae Cultivation
• Blue Hydrogen
• GreenShift Acquires Rights to Patented Carbon Dioxide Reduction Technology
• A Look Back at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Aquatic Species Program
• A New Technique to Harvest Microalgae ?

Investment Details

• The Controlled Eutrophication Process
• Biodiesel
• Firm plans to produce biodiesel from algae
• SA Company says it Will Make Biodiesel from Algae
• Algae — like a breath mint for smokestacks
• Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae

Algae Oil Extraction

• From Algae to Bio-diesel
• The Emissions to Biofuels™ process
• Emissions-to-Biofuels Opportunities for Power and Manufacturing Plants
• Oil Products from Algae
• Process for the Production of Ethanol from Algae
• Algae bioreactors that tackle CO2 emissions
• Biodiesel from Algae
• Algae Oil Extraction
• Oil from Algae
• Biofuel Production
• Oil production
• Algae : An Oil Crop of Future
• Research Project

• Biodiesel Project
• Algae Oil 
• Enitechnologie R&D Project on Microalgae Biofixation of CO2.
• A Mini-Manhattan Project 
• The SuperChachi Project
• Algae ponds at wastewater treatment plants
• Project Updates

• Bioking
• Benzene Suppliers
• Ether Suppliers
• Oil Mill Machinery & Equipment
• Centrifuges Suppliers
• Oil Press Suppliers
• Supercritical Reactors

Market

• Algae Biofuel From Sewage
• Biodiesel 2020: A Global Market Survey
• A Glimpse of the Future for Biodiesel
• Biodiesel - World Production
• Green Algae as Fuel Factories
• India Biofuels Market Poised To Boom
• Poop-Grown Algae to Fuel Cars?
• Want Alternate Energy? Try Pond Scum

Company Profiles

• Solazyme
• Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation
• Enhanced Biofuels & Technologies
• GS AgriFuels
• Infinifuel Biodiesel
• PetroAlgae
• Solix Biofuels
• GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
• Valcent Products, Inc

Consultants

• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• Biodiesel Consulting Firms
• Bioworld Products
• Fisheries Technology Associates
• Business Directory
• Ronore Enterprises, Inc.
• Ripley D. Fox
• Sturgeon

Reports

• An algae-based fuel
• An Industrial Photobioreactor for Commercial Production of Algae Based Biodiesel
• Big reactor, big reactions
• Investor Kit
• PetroSun Subsidiary to Commence Field Testing for Algae-Based Biodiesel Production
• Growing fuel from algae
• World’s First Sample Of Bio-Diesel From Algae
• News Updates