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See the Algae Industry In Action! New Tours Added to the Algae Biomass Summit    Exciting new tours have just been added to the agenda of the Algae Biomass Summit in San Diego! Register today and sign up for a first-hand look at algae cultivation and research in the Imperial Valley’s Algae Facilities and La Jolla’s Famous Biotech Mesa.    Act soon! We expect these tours to sell out. When you register for the Summit you will be able to add one, or both, of these new tours to your itinerary. Tours offer great networking opportunities! Read on for more details.   Imperial Valley Algae Facilities and Renewable Energy Tour  Monday, September 29, 2014  8:00AM – 5:00PM  Price: $175 Earthrise Nutritionals Visit the Imperial Valley, home of Algae Biomass Organization member companiesEarthrise Nutritionals and Hyperlight Energy and major renewable energy projects including the Hudson Power geothermal facility. This tour is hosted by the Imperial Valley Economic Development Corporation (IVEDC) and San Diego State University (SDSU) Brawley Campus. During the tour you will visit Earthrise Nutritionals, the largest algae farm in the United States, the innovative combined power and algae biomass demonstration facility of Hyperlight Energy, located on the SDSU Brawley Campus and, pending final confirmation, the 50 MW power plant operated by Hudson Ranch Power. IVEDC will coordinate an informative tour guide for each bus including presentations and video documentaries. A box breakfast and lunch will be included along with beverages. Dress for the desert heat! Buses will depart from the Marriott on Monday, September 29 at 8:00 AM and return at 5:00 PM in time for the Algae Biomass Summit Opening Reception. Register for the Summit today and the Imperial Valley Tour! La Jolla’s Famous Biotech Mesa and Green Flash  Reception Tour Thursday, October 2, 2014  1:00PM – 8:00PM  Price $150 California Center for Algae Biotechnology. Photo: Eric Jepson, UC San Diego Publications The California Center for Algae Biotechnology (CalCAB) hosts this tour of the famous La Jolla Biotech Mesa complex, home of ABO member companies Sapphire Energy and SGI-DNA, Inc. a Synthetic Genomics Company. The world-renown cluster of biotech excellence is directly related to the exceptional quality of research that has spun out of University of California San Diego (UCSD) where CalCAB, an academic/private consortium is located. On this tour you will visit the SGI-DNA DNA Assembly Facility. SGI-DNA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Synthetic Genomics providing large and complex DNA synthesis and assembly services to customers around the world.  You will also visit the UCSD Biological Field Station where UCSD and Sapphire scientists and staff will review their close private sector and academic collaborations that resulted in being ranked the number one algae biofuels consortium funded by the Department of Energy. A Green Flash Sunset After the tour the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a Department of UCSD and academic home of five of the CalCAB scientists, will host a Green Flash reception with food and libations. On a first come first served basis, up to 75 attendees can join a guided tour of the original equipment used by Charles David Keeling to create the “Keeling Curve” of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa – the pulse of climate change.  Sunset is at 6:32 pm and if the sky conditions cooperate, we guarantee a Green Flash! Attendees will get a scientific explanation of the phenomenon and provide instructions on viewing the Green Flash, let’s hope for a clear horizon over the ocean! Buses leave the Marriott Thursday, October 2 at 1:00 PM and return at 8:00 PM.  Register for the Summit today and add the Biotech Mesa Tour and Green Flash Reception!

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Regular updates expected   The Algae Biomass Organization has published the first agenda and speakers to present at the  2014 Algae Biomass Summit, to be held in sunny San Diego, California September 29 – October 2, 2014.   The agenda is already filled with presentations on fuels, feeds, nutritional supplements and more–the full range of products made possible with algae.    More speakers, tours and other exciting updates are expected in the weeks to come!   View the agenda now. Get the early bird registration rate today! ABO members qualify for additional savings!   San Diego is a major hub for algae research, commercialization and entrepreneurial activity. At the Summit you will be able to meet with those making the latest breakthroughs, meeting commercial milestones and hear the insights of major players in the algae industry.   The agenda features exciting updates in each of the Summit’s tracks: Biology Commercialization Engineering and Analysis Finance and Policy Don’t miss this chance to network with hundreds of algae industry decision makers, suppliers and other leaders! Register today!

REGISTER Registration Now Open Early-bird registration expires August 1, 2014 Registration is now open for the 2014 Algae Biomass Summit! Register before August 1st to qualify for the early-bird rate. ABO members qualify for additional savings. If you are not an ABO member make sure to fill out an application today! Click here to register. Exhibit and Sponsorship Opportunities Exhibit booths are selling out fast! Sponsors and exhibitors at the Algae Biomass Summit are the leaders in the algae industry. By supporting the Summit you can help advance an industry that is gaining new traction every year as it positions algae to become a new source of fuels, feeds, nutritional products, plastics, chemicals and countless other projects. Click here to sponsor the Algae Biomass Summit Click here to exhibit at the Algae Biomass Summit Platinum Summit Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Supporting Organizations Media Sponsors

Algae fuel will have a significant energy return on investment, consume waste CO₂ and can be grown in saltwater on marginal lands

MINNEAPOLIS (September 19, 2013) –Algae-derived biofuel can reduce life cycle CO₂ emissions by 50 to 70 percent compared to petroleum fuels, and is approaching a similar Energy Return on Investment (EROI) as conventional petroleum according to a new peer-reviewed paper published in Bioresource Technology. The study, which is the first to analyze real-world data from an existing algae-to-energy demonstration scale farm, shows that the environmental and energy benefits of algae biofuel are at least on par, and likely better, than first generation biofuels.

“This study affirms that algae-based fuels provide results without compromise,” said Mary Rosenthal, ABO’s executive director. “With significant emissions reductions, a positive energy balance, nutrient recycling and CO₂ reuse, algae-based fuels will be a long-term, sustainable source of fuels for our nation.”

The study, “Pilot-scale data provide enhanced estimates of the life cycle energy and emissions profile of algae biofuels produced via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL),” is a life cycle analysis of an algae cultivation and fuel production process currently employed at pre-commercial scales. The authors examined field data from two facilities operated by Sapphire Energy in Las Cruces and Columbus, New Mexico that grow and process algae into Green Crude oil. Sapphire Energy’s Green Crude can be refined into drop-in fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

The study concluded that algae technologies at commercial scale are projected to produce biofuels with lower greenhouse gas emissions and EROI values that are comparable to first generation biofuels. Additionally, algae based biofuels produced through this pathway at commercial scale will have a significant energy return on investment (EROI), close to petroleum and three times higher than cellulosic ethanol. The system that was evaluated recycles nutrients, can accept an algae feed that is up to 90 percent water in the processing phase, and the final product can be blended with refinery intermediates for refining into finished gasoline or diesel product, resulting in significant energy savings throughout the process.

“These real-world data from demonstration scale facilities gave us new insight and allowed us to understand how scale will impact the benefits and costs of algae-to-energy deployment.” said lead author Andres F. Clarens, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. “These results suggest that algae-based fuels made using HTL have an environmental profile that is comparable to conventional biofuels.”

The authors also write that expected improvements in the industry mean that algae-based biofuels are set to surpass advanced biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol in terms of both energy returns and greenhouse gas emissions. 

About the Algae Biomass Organization

The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) is a 501 c(6) non-profit whose mission is to promote the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. Its membership is comprised of people, companies and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algaebiomass.org.

Contacts:
Nate Kommers, Scoville Public Relations for ABO
206-625-0075 x2, nate.kommers@scovillepr.com

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The Algae Industry’s
Top Minds are Scheduled to Present

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Tuesday, October 1 | 10:45 am – 11:15 am Matt Horton CEO, Propel Fuels

KEYNOTE ADDRESS Tuesday, October 1 | 11:15 am – 12:15 pm Moderator: Laurie Purpuro Government Affairs Advisor, K&L Gates Chris Cassidy Renewable Energy Advisor, USDA Sarah Bittleman Agriculture Counselor to the Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Christy Sterner Project Manager, DOE Biomass Program, Bioenergy Technologies Office

Track 1: Progress in Algal Biology Research
Tuesday, October 1 | 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
This panel will examine the factors that control carbon flux to lipids, carbohydrates and other products in diatoms and green algal systems. Approaches to be discussed include the targeted metabolic manipulation of pathways to increase lipid production and the overall study of material fluxes as cells transition from heterotrophic to mixotrophic and photoautotrophic growth conditions.

 

	Panel Chair: Qiang Hu Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences		Emily Trentacoste UC-San Diego Increased Lipid Accumulation without Compromising Growth: Metabolic Engineering of Lipid Catabolism in Thalassiosira pseudonana
	Yanming Wang VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Mixotrophic Continuous Cultivation of Chlorella protothecoides for Sustainable Lipid Production		Egan Lohman Montana State University Lipid Profiling, Carbon Partitioning, and Inorganic Carbon Optimization to Enhance Growth and Lipid Accumulation in Green Microalgae

 

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Industry Tours:
Algenol’s World-class Facility
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Thursday, October 3
12:30pm – 9:00 pm

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Algenol

As an attendee of the Algae Biomass Summit, you’ll have the exclusive opportunity to tour the most sophisticated algae facility in the world where an algae strain can go from lab-scale development to commercial-scale production on one site.Algenol’s commercial development campus includes a 70,000 square feet of world-class molecular biology, culture collection, physiology, aquaculture, analytical chemistry and engineering laboratories. The tour will showcase Algenol’s Process Development Unit (PDU), which consists of aquaculture laboratory, inoculation greenhouses and 3 acres of outdoor controlled testing area for initial deployment and optimization activities. The Integrated Biorefinery will showcase 4000 of Algenol’s 2nd generation modular photobioreactors containing advanced proprietary algae producing in excess of 9,000 gallons of ethanol per acre per year. Spent algae from the ethanol process will be converted next year into jet, diesel and gasoline green fuels through hydrothermal liquefaction and light hydrotreating for an additional 1,350 gallons per acre per year. This commercial module deployment is automated and will be producing fuel grade ethanol on site in 2013.

More information on Algenol and its commercialization strategy can be found here.

*Important: This tour includes a three hour bus trip each way. The tour will depart at the conclusion of the Algae Biomass Summit plenary session on Thursday and return to the Orlando area around 9pm. Shuttles from Algenol to the Ft. Meyers airport will be available for tour attendees choosing to depart the conference from this airport at the conclusion of the tour. Attendees should choose flights departing the Ft. Meyers airport no earlier than 6pm.

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Monday, September 30
8:30 am – 4:00 pm

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Daytona International Speedway and Kennedy Space Center

The tour begins at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex where attendees will have an opportunity to view the Space Shuttle Atlantis, which until this summer was not available for viewing. Additionally, attendees can participate in the Shuttle Launch Experience, view the Apollo/Saturn V Center and spend time in the complex gift shop.The Daytona International Speedway will welcome tour attendees for lunch and an afternoon learning about this storied racing facility. Tour guides will provide attendees with walk through tours of the drivers meeting room, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series garage areas, Gatorade Victory Lane and a lap around the super speedway. This tour provides conference attendees with an excellent networking opportunity set in two of the Orlando area’s most popular attractions. Limited Spots Register for Industry Tours

 

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The expo hall continues to be a valuable and popular meeting place for algae professionals attending the event. Last year marked the third consecutive year the hall sold out. The expo hall’s popularity is attributed to the fact that it receives a high amount of visitor traffic from networking receptions, breaks and meal functions taking place in the expo hall space. A limited number of exhibits are available—so reserve your spot today!

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