Category: Blog

By Paul Mullen

Americans eat over one billion pounds of shrimp a year, making shrimp the nation’s most popular seafood. When shrimp farming was compared to beef farming, researchers calculated that by the pound, shrimps carbon footprint was ten times that of beef. New Wave Foods, a biotech company is trying to create a sustainable replacement for shrimp through a combination of algae and plant based proteins. New Wave Foods are confident in their eco-friendliness as making shrimp from algae requires no fishing, no nets, no mangroves and no shrimp. To read the full article click here.

The Algae Biomass Organization has partnered with the Water Environment Federation to offer a special forum on wastewater treatment in conjunction with the Algae Biomass Summit in Phoenix, AZ. The forum will take place on Sunday, October 23^rd, and will provide an overview of algae biotechnology for wastewater treatment as well as insights into design, financing and regulatory considerations for algae in the industry.

The forum promises to bring together algae technology developers, design and engineering firms, municipalities, regulators, and other stakeholders to review the state of algae-based tertiary waste water treatment systems. Expert panelists will discuss how microalgae-based approaches offer a game-changing solution for wastewater treatment.

Speakers include:

• John Benemann, MicroBio Engineering
• Tryg Lundquist, CalPoly
• Frank Rogalla, Aqualia
• Ron Simms, Utah State University
• Noah Mundt, Siemens
• Daniel Higgins, GE Power & Water
• Kuldip Kumar, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
• Robert Bastian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

For more details, visit the Algae Biomass Summit website.

The Algae Biomass Organization has announced the addition of six new members to its Board of Directors for the 2016-2018 term. ABO also welcomed Jacques Beaudry-Losique, Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Algenol as the new board chair, and David Hazlebeck, Founder and CEO of Global Algae Innovations as vice chair.

The board guides the organization in its mission to educate the general public, policymakers and industry about algae’s great potential to address many of the food, water, health, sustainability and energy security issues facing the world today. Board members support the organization in advocating for policies that can accelerate the development of commercial markets for products made from algae.

The new board members include:

• Amha Belay, CTO, Earthrise Nutritionals
• Genet Garamendi, Senior Vice President, TerraVia
• Raffi Mardirosian, Vice President, Joule Unlimited
• Stephen Mayfield, Director, California Center for Algae Biotechnology
• Leslie van der Meulen, General Manager, BioProcess Algae LLC
• Xun Wang, President, Triton Algae Innovations, Ltd.
• Ross Zirkle, Director of Molecular Biotechnology, DSM Nutritional Products

For more details about the ABO Board, please see the announcement, or visit our website.

Get a close look at the latest products being made with algae! This year we are including the first Algae Product Showcase at the Algae Biomass Summit. Stop by and check out how algae is being harnessed by innovators around the world to make new ingredients for food, nutritional supplements, cosmetics, fertilizers, energy, plastics and more.

The Algae Product Showcase will be part of this year’s exhibit hall at the Algae Biomass Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, October 23-26. Each display will include a product sample, product details and manufacturer contact information.

Participation is completely free! If you would like to have your own product featured please check out the rules and regulations and application form at the Summit website. All algae-derived products, or products containing algae based-ingredients are eligible to apply.

Apply today! Deadline is September 2, 2016!

For more information, please contact:
showcase@algaebiomass.org 

DOE and NETL have issued a Carbon Utilization funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for projects that will support the Carbon Storage program’s efforts to develop technologies that utilize CO2 from coal-fired plants. The FOA is the direct result of ABO’s successful push to include $10 million for carbon capture and use in DOE’s FY2016 congressional funding, but provides for additional funding beyond the congressionally mandated level for a total of up to $24 million to fund up to 24 projects.

The FOA identifies three areas of interest:

• Biological based concepts for beneficial use of CO2
• Mineralization concepts utilizing CO2 with industrial wastes
• Novel physical and chemical processes for beneficial use of carbon.

When applying, applicants must specific which area of interest they are applying for. Projects from all areas of interest for CO2 utilization must have a duration of 24 to 36 months. Applications are due October 13, 2016.

For more details, visit the NETL website.