Well, I realize this won't work on a small scale but the ethanol guys are using a pretreatment process called Steam Explosion to blow apart the lignocellulose...
... The critical part is to break the cell wall, or grow cells that have oil vacuoles outside. Whether you extract, use a press or centrifuge are marginalia. ...
Oh yes I know that. The discussion was once you get the algae to relase the oil, lets say by chemical means or electronic ways, then how could we seperate the...
Have more info on that? Pictures,diagrams, etc? _____ From: oil_from_algae@yahoogroups.com [mailto:oil_from_algae@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nanomatrix ...
Actually LEDs may be able to be tuned, but they are far from being more efficient compared to fluorescent. _____ From: oil_from_algae@yahoogroups.com...
... Top of the line LED laps are about twice as efficient as fluorescents. The gap will only grow in future. I don't know about the spectrum. Solar spectrum is...
... Before you get to the oil, how would you separate the cells out of your dispersion? Some cells float to the surface, especially when not agitated, and...
OK thank you guys for helping me get started there is really no way I coulda have done it all on my own I am trying to go from 0 to 60 in the knowledge of this...
I think your idea is great! Let me say this for all interested in the U shaped bulbs or any florescent light bulb. there are # on the boxes that relate to the...
Palm oil sells for ~$700/MT. Raw algae oil has to be able to sell for that price or less and turn a profit or it's not going to happen. So in the end it...
... Whatever you do, protocol your experiments. Measure every parameter you can get your hands on. You yourself and especially, others, will be later thankful...
... journals) ... Actually LEDs are becoming cheap enough to start replacing incandescent light bulbs. Prices have been declining by 50 percent a year. We've...
I was interested in calculating how much land area it would take to grow enough algae to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industrial/power plants. Please...
Eugen, Trent, and Nano, LEDs may be more efficient at their one wave length than florescents, if you are only measuring electrical usage. Unfortunately, there...
Eugen, The only species that readily gives up its oil is BB. Some experts have contended that it is to slow growing to be interesting economically. For other...
Trent, I think Eugen is saying that, once we get the oil out of the cell, then getting the oil out of the ruble of the destroyed cell is no problem using a ...
Eugen, The first problem will be harvesting. For initial experiments, we can use a dip net covered with filter cloth. (Home growers of other species use that...
Eugen, I think that we should first concentrate on growing algae. After we have figured out how to do that, then we can, one by one, figure how to obtain each...
Donald, Years ago, that was called Maxwell's Devil and it worked - no need to test. But it is only processing air - how would you use it with an algae and oil ...
Eugen, We will not start by growing tons per day. We will start by growing pounds (kilos) per week. We will set up one sq. yard (one sq meter) raceway ponds...
Terry, Different algaes like different photoperiods. The normal is 12 on 12 off. Centrifuges are expensive. Unless you just want one, there are other ways ...
Pico, I do not pretend to understand your calculation. The email system lost all of your formatting. I do not see where you included the efficiency of the...
Trent, SunOpta is the leader in this technology. They have installations all over the world. And right now this seems to be the most efficient way of breaking...
... Of course. The point is whether your production prices are competitive. It is very difficult to compete with crude barrel prices, even with future crude...
Bobby, Guess its a very simple and readily acceptible approach.i was willing to use a colorimeter or spectrophotometer to determine culture density...and to...
Exactly. I was thinking the lower density material (oils) would migrate toward the center of the vortex during its passage down the pipe and could be...
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