Samsung deal unravels - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA#postbox
Opportunity to do green energy returns to Six Nations ?
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Conventional vs green energy debate heats up -interesting points of view
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Food safety breakthrough idea? interesting
'Killer' paper could improve food safety
RAMAT-GAN, Israel (UPI) -- Israeli scientists say they've tested a "killer paper" packaging material with silver nanoparticles to preserve foods by combating bacteria that cause spoilage.
Aharon Gedanken and colleagues at Bar-Ilan University have been exploring the use of silver nanoparticles -- each 1/50,000 the width of a human hair -- as germ-fighting coatings for plastics, fabrics and metals, an American Chemical Society release said Wednesday.
The researchers say nanoparticles, which have a longer-lasting effect than larger silver particles, could help overcome the growing problem of antibiotic resistance as bacteria develop the ability to shrug off existing antibiotics.
Paper coated with silver nanoparticles could provide an alternative to common food preservation methods such as radiation, heat treatment and low-temperature storage, they say.
Paper treated with the nanoparticles demonstrated potent antibacterial activity against E. coli and S. aureus, two causes of bacterial food poisoning, killing all of the bacteria in 3 hours, the researchers found.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Re: FW: Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years, Says IEA
Conventional fuels read -interesting natural gas supply world for 250 years (China) and if price decoupled from oil .....
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Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years, Says IEA
Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and European economies follow the U.S. unconventional reserves, the International Energy Agency said. --United Press International, 19 January 2011
I have been studying the energy markets for 30 years, and I am convinced that shale gas will revolutionize the industry—and change the world—in the coming decades. It will prevent the rise of any new cartels. It will alter geopolitics. And it will slow the transition to renewable energy. –Amy Myers Jaffe, The Wall Street Journal, 10 May 2010
Chinese geologists have detected "super-thick" oil and gas-bearing stratums (sic) in the northern part of the South China Sea and identified 38 offshore oil and gas-bearing basins, a senior official said on Saturday. Wang Min, vice-minister of land and resources, said thanks to the efforts of the geologists, new resources detected in the past 10 years accounted for about half of all resources found in the past half century, and the amount of new resources found each year has surpassed their annual consumption. – China Daily, 19 January 2011
It is virtually impossible for the world to keep within the CO2 limits defined as safe for the climate, according to the chief economist of the International Energy Agency think tank. Dr Fatih Birol told an audience in London that key nations were not prepared to take the steps necessary to cut carbon growth. He also warned that efforts to tackle climate change through renewable energy were under threat from the world revolution in unconventional gas sources. --Roger Harrabin, BBC News, 19 January 2011
Researchers at the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester claim to have demonstrated how the extraction of shale gas risks seriously contaminating ground and surface waters – without providing any scientific evidence to back their claim. --The Engineer, 18 January 2011
1) Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years, Says IEA - United Press International, 19 January 2011
2) China Is Swimming In New Oil And Gas - China Daily, 19 January 2011
3) Emission Impossible: Is It All Over For Climate Alarmism? - BBC News, 19 January 2011
4) Bill Gates Jumps Into Oil Exploration; Brazil's Reserves to Double? - Al Fin Energy 19 January 2011
5) UK Shale-Gas Report Lacks Scientific Evidence - The Engineer, 18 January 2011
6) Shale Gas Will Rock the World: October Natural Gas Production Sets Another New All-Time Record - Carpe Diem, 19 January 2011
1) Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years, Says IEA
United Press International, 19 January 2011
Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and European economies follow the U.S. unconventional reserves, the IEA said.
The abundance of shale gas and other forms of so-called unconventional gas discovered in the United States prompted a global rush to explore for the new resource.
The International Energy Agency said Australia is taking the lead in the push toward unconventional gas, though China, India and Indonesia are close behind. European companies are taking preliminary steps to unlock unconventional gas as are other regions.
"Production of 'unconventional' gas in the U.S. has rocketed in the past few years, going beyond even the most optimistic forecasts," said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a gas analyst at the IEA. "It is no wonder that its success has sparked such international interest."
Shale gas production in the United States is booming and the IEA estimates that unconventional gas makes up around 12 percent of the global supply.
Global supplies of natural gas could last for another 130 years at current consumption rates. That time frame could double with unconventional gas, the IEA said.
"Despite the many uncertainties associated with production, countries are still prepared to take risks and invest time and money in exploration and production, because of the potential long-term benefits," Corbeau said.
2) China Is Swimming In New Oil And Gas
Chinese geologists have detected "super-thick" oil and gas-bearing stratums (sic) in the northern part of the South China Sea and identified 38 offshore oil and gas-bearing basins, a senior official said on Saturday.
The outskirts of Songliao Basin in Northeast China, Yin'e Basin in North China and Qiangtang Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have also been found to have rich oil and gas resources, Wang Min, vice-minister of land and resources, said at a national conference in Beijing.
In addition, 192.7 billion tons of coal resources have been found in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, and four 10,000-ton sandstone-type uranium mines have been located in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, he said.
Wang said these latest discoveries, particularly those at sea, have given direction for China's future resource exploration.
Conducting more geological inspections at the above regions has been set as one of the ministry's major working tasks this year.
Comprehensive geological and environmental inspections will be conducted at key offshore areas such as the southern region of Yellow Sea, the northern part of the South China Sea, East China's Liaodong Bay and regions near South China's Hainan Island, according to the ministry.
Wang said the country has also made a breakthrough in locating new energy resources. Natural gas hydrate has been found for the first time in the northern region of the South China Sea and frozen-soil areas at Qilian Mountain.
And a 2.46-million-ton lithium carbonate mine has been located in Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, which will reduce the cost of lithium production and help with the country's new energy industry.
Due to China's rapid economic growth in the past 10 years, the country's energy consumption has been growing rapidly and become more dependent on imports.
Right now, China has become the biggest consumer of coal, steel, alumina, copper and cement.
More than half of the country's petroleum and iron consumption, about 70 percent of its copper consumption and 64 percent of sylvite consumption now rely on imports, according to figures released by the Ministry of Land and Recourses on Saturday.
Wang said thanks to the efforts of the geologists, new resources detected in the past 10 years accounted for about half of all resources found in the past half century, and the amount of new resources found each year has surpassed their annual consumption.
3) Emission Impossible: Is It All Over For Climate Alarmism?
Roger Harrabin
It is virtually impossible for the world to keep within the CO2 limits defined as safe for the climate, according to the chief economist of the International Energy Agency think tank. Dr Fatih Birol told an audience in London that key nations were not prepared to take the steps necessary to cut carbon growth.
He also applauded the UK's high fuel taxes, and warned that the shale gas revolution would put pressure on the development of renewable energy sources worldwide.
But it was his comments on climate change that seemed to cause the biggest buzz among the audience that packed a huge lecture theatre at Imperial College London.
The world's governments at the recent climate conference in Cancun agreed that greenhouse gases should be kept within the limit associated by scientists with a 2C temperature rise.
But as progress in cutting emissions has crawled along in recent years that public position has looked like an increasingly unrealistic facade.
And there appeared widespread relief that Dr Birol said the unsayable - that peaking emissions by 2020 was virtually impossible, and that in those circumstances we could "kiss goodbye" to the 2C target.
"We would need to double decarbonisation efforts, then double them again to keep emissions (of CO2 and equivalent gases) within 450 parts per million," he said. "The bulk of the effort needs to take place in countries where climate change is not high on the policy agenda. We have to be realistic."
Blame game
Dr Birol referred to the debate in Europe as to whether the EU would cut emissions by 20% or 30% by 2020 against 1990 levels. The difference between these two targets, he said, was equivalent to just two weeks of China's emissions.
He said the West could not blame China because per capita emissions and car ownership there were still comparatively very low and he urged the UK and EU continue with "climate leadership".
Dr Birol also warned that efforts to tackle climate change through renewable energy were under threat from the world revolution in unconventional gas sources. He said the shale gas boom in the US has already led to a gas rush which had contributed to a 50% drop in investment in renewable energy.
And the US boom, he said, had a knock-on global effect. The fact that the US has suddenly found that it is independent in gas supplies means it doesn't have to import gas.
That means the nations gearing up to sell gas to the US have to find other markets, which is forcing down prices.
"There's suddenly much more gas available in the world than previously thought," he told BBC News.
"It's cheaper than it was and the supply is more assured. And it's only half as polluting as coal. There will be strong debates between energy and climate and finance ministries round the world about whether investment should continue to support renewables when the situation on gas has so radically changed."
This debate hasn't started in earnest in the UK but it surely will. Firms like Shell are already bidding to get carbon capture and storage on gas fired power stations treated to the same subsidies bestowed on renewables.
Ministers will be asked to explain why we should invest in expensive intermittent wind power if gas with the carbon captured can supply energy more reliably and possibly more cheaply.
End of an era
And the gas price may go cheaper still if purchasing nations succeed in de-coupling gas price rises from oil prices, in the way they have in the US
4) Bill Gates Jumps Into Oil Exploration; Brazil's Reserves to Double?
Bill Gates has read the tea leaves, and thinks that there is money in advanced oil exploration technologies.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is tossing his financial support behind a Houston company which hopes to utilize detailed analytics and measurement technologies to take some of the guesswork out of onshore oil and gas exploration. NEOS GeoSolutions -- whose investors include the legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and investment bank Goldman Sachs -- today announced a $60 million investment from Gates and others.
The company touts itself as a "geosciences company where Silicon Valley meets the oil patch," and Gates' involvement certainly adds some big-name technology credentials to the mix. According to the company's Web site, NEOS can can help oil, gas and mining companies more efficiently explore the Earth's subsurface.We do this by integrating a broad range of geological and geophysical (G&G) data – including data available in the public domain, owned by our clients, or acquired using proprietary NEOS platforms – to produce a highly constrained 3D model of the subsurface. By applying the latest geostatistical techniques, we help our clients determine which portions of a basin might be the most prospective and, at the lease level, what areas are most likely to contain commercial quantities of hydrocarbons or minerals. --TechFlash
Brazil's oil reserves may be set to double in extent:
Brazilian oil deposits below a layer of salt in the Atlantic Ocean hold at least 123 billion barrels of reserves, more than double government estimates, according to a university study by a former Petroleo Brasileiro SA geologist. The research, which set out to show government figures were overly optimistic, found they underestimated the area's potential, said Hernani Chaves, a professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University who worked at Petrobras for 35 years. The forecast, which the study puts at a 90 percent probability, compares with 50 billion barrels estimated by Brazil's oil regulator, known as ANP. "We started with a skeptical view and finished with bigger numbers," --Bloomberg
Coal to rival oil in energy production by 2030
Green coal may come to India within 2 years
GE to assist Shenhua in providing clean coal technology to China
Renewables bubble bursting in Spain and France. German and Scandinavian power grid managers are not very happy about the renewables bubble either.
The world is floating in hydrocarbon energy resources. Humans in developed societies must choose between the lefty-Luddite dieoff.orgiast philosophy -- as promoted by Obama's merry band of energy starvationists -- or a cleaner and more abundant future of limitless resources released by the unbound human mind.
5) UK Shale-Gas Report Lacks Scientific Evidence
Researchers at the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester claim to have demonstrated how the extraction of shale gas risks seriously contaminating ground and surface waters – without providing any scientific evidence to back their claim.
Working on behalf of the Co-operative, the researchers investigated the environmental and climate change impacts of shale gas – a new fossil fuel resource already developed in the US and being considered for imminent extraction and use in the UK.
Despite massive expansion of the US shale gas industry over recent years, there is little reliable data on groundwater contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') – drilling a well 1.5-6km below the surface and pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the shale at pressures up to 100MPa.
The Co-op-backed report pointed out that a Environmental Protection Agency was due to report the findings of a $2m study on the issue later this year. It also noted that there had been moves to tighten regulations by New York State, as well as anecdotal evidence of harmful chemical reaching water supplies.
Calling for a moratorium on shale gas development, the study said: "Information on health and environmental aspects is of variable quality and only now is there any systematic effort being undertaken to better understand these issues."
However, rather than present any evidence on the health risks associated with shale gas extraction, most of the researchers' case against shale gas focused on climate-change arguments.
Prof Kevin Anderson at the Tyndall Centre and the University of Manchester, commenting: "Any new fossil fuel resource will only lead to additional carbon emissions. In the case of shale gas there is also a significant risk its use will delay the introduction of renewable energy alternatives."
One of the companies mentioned in the report, IGas Energy is developing its coal bed methane (CBM) resources. The company also has some shale gas acreage in its licence areas, but has no immediate plans to develop it at present.
CBM is extracted by a completely different process to shale gas and doesn't involve the same complicated fracturing techniques and mix of chemicals as shale gas extraction.
"Shale - like CBM and indeed all other forms gas production - is subject to the UK regulatory regime which is one of the strictest in the world, and certainly is more rigorous than that in the US," said an IGas spokesman.
The risks from all gas production need to be identified and mitigated to the satisfaction of the HSE and, where appropriate, various environmental agencies and local planning permission, IGas also emphasised.
"Shale gas does not emit much more carbon in its production and use than conventional gas and could potentially make a significant contribution to the UK's energy resources and increase its security of supply, and the regulatory regime is in place to make sure that environmental concerns are addressed," said the spokesman.
Likewise, a Department of Energy and Climate Change spokesman said: 'We support the industry's endeavours in pursuing such energy sources, provided that tapping of such resources proves to be economically, commercially and environmentally viable.
'All onshore oil and gas projects, including shale gas exploration and development, are subject to a series of checks, including local planning permission before they are able to move ahead with drilling activities.'
6) Shale Gas Will Rock the World: October Natural Gas Production Sets Another New All-Time Record
According to data from the EIA, more natural gas produced was produced in October - 2,330,551 million cubic feet - than in any previous month in U.S. history (see chart above). I couldn't find this reported elsewhere, so I'm claiming this as a "Carpe Diem exclusive"!
As John Tierney reported recently in the New York Times:
"The really good news is the discovery of vast quantities of natural gas. It's now selling for less than half of what it was five years ago. There's so much available that the Energy Department is predicting low prices for gas and electricity for the next quarter-century."
As the EIA reported in December:
"Domestic proved reserves of oil and natural gas increased significantly in 2009. U.S. natural gas proved reserves increased by 11 percent in 2009 to 284 trillion cubic feet. This is their highest level since 1971, despite an approximate one-third decline in the prices used to assess economic viability for 2009 reserves as compared to the prices used in 2008. U.S. crude oil plus lease condensate proved reserves rose 9 percent to 22.3 billion barrels in 2009, regaining 1.8 billion barrels of the 2.3 billion barrel decline in 2008. These increases demonstrate the possibility of an expanding role for domestic natural gas and crude oil in meeting both current and projected U.S. energy demands."
As Amy Myers Jaffe wrote in the Wall Street Journal:"We've always known the potential of shale; we just didn't have the technology to get to it at a low enough cost. Now new techniques have driven down the price tag—and set the stage for shale gas to become what will be the game-changing resource of the decade.
I have been studying the energy markets for 30 years, and I am convinced that shale gas will revolutionize the industry—and change the world—in the coming decades. It will prevent the rise of any new cartels. It will alter geopolitics. And it will slow the transition to renewable energy."The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 1 Carlton House, London SW1Y 5DB
Director: Dr Benny Peiser
http://www.thegwpf.org
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Ikea goes solar?
Calif. Ikea store to go to solar power
COSTA MESA, Calif. (UPI) -- Home furnishings giant Ikea says it will light one of its Southern California stores using solar panels if the city of Costa Mesa, Calif., approves.
Khanh Nguyen, a Costa Mesa building official , said the Swedish chain applied last week for a permit with the city to install solar panels on the roof of its South Coast Drive store, the Costa Mesa Daily Pilot reported.
The 1,120 panels the store says it will need to install are expected to generate 250 kilowatts, enough to light up 2,500 regular light bulbs, said Nguyen.
The company will be installing the panels at seven of its eight stores in California and at one warehouse, Ikea spokesman Joseph Roth said.
"We've been following solar energy technology as it's been advancing, and now we concluded that it's definitely feasible for us to efficiently and effectively implement the solar-energy programs at certain stores," he said.
"It's a very significant investment," Roth said. "But we have concluded that it's definitely very cost-effective for us from a financial standpoint and it reinforces our commitment to the environment."
Once approved, Ikea's solar panels will be Costa Mesa's largest commercial photovoltaic rooftop system, Nguyen said.
"The city has always been green," Nguyen said. "We want residents to save energy. We want residents to use renewable energy as much as possible. It's clean energy."
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Fwd: Latest Updates from Algae Fuels
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Friday, January 21, 2011
How Much Energy Does It Take to Get Our Energy?
Green energy ponder
Useful benchmark tool for green energy - climbing the economic wall on green
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Energy return on investment is a concept that explores the efficiency of various energy sources.
It helps us determine which renewable fuels produce the most net energy given our current technology, and — perhaps most interesting of all
— it also shows us why energy prices are relentlessly climbing and will continue to do so.
It helps us determine which renewable fuels produce the most net energy given our current technology, and — perhaps most interesting of all
— it also shows us why energy prices are relentlessly climbing and will continue to do so.
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Why we need nitpickers again
Bedbugs evolving to defeat insecticides
NEW YORK (UPI) -- A genetic study of bedbugs, whose numbers have recently exploded, suggests they are evolving to withstand pesticides used against them, U.S. scientists say.
Entomologists at Ohio State University say bedbugs may have boosted their natural defenses by generating higher levels of enzymes that can cleanse them of poisons, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst have found that bedbugs in New York are 250 times more resistant to the standard pesticide than bedbugs in Florida, because of changes in a gene controlling the resilience of the nerve cells targeted by the insecticide.
Laboratory tests in the United States, Europe and Africa show bedbugs can survive pesticide doses 1,000 times greater than the lethal level of 10 years ago.
"There is a phenomenal level of resistance," said bedbug entomologist Michael Siva-Jothy at Britain's University of Sheffield. "It has evolved very recently."
Repeated applications of insecticides act as a form of natural selection for bedbugs, as any surviving insects pass on resistant traits to their offspring and to succeeding generations.
"Insect resistance is nothing more than sped-up evolution," said insect toxicologist John Clark, who led the research team at the University of Massachusetts.
"We have changed the genetic make-up of the bedbugs we have in the United States," said urban pest-management specialist Dini Miller at Virginia Tech. "That's what I call unnatural selection."
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Fwd: Oilgae - Latest Updates from Algae Fuels
Interesting
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science news -interesting ideas for the future
What about Canada - tidal resources - Maratimes?
India state to be site of tidal power farm
NEW DELHI (UPI) -- The Indian state of Gujurat says it will host Asia's first commercial-scale tidal power station, starting construction of a 50-megawatt facility in 2012.
The tidal farm will be constructed in the Gulf of Kutch on India's west coast. It could eventually be expanded to deliver more than 200 megawatts of electricity, the BBC reported Tuesday.
The largest operating tidal station in the world, La Rance in France, generates 240 megawatts, the BBC said.
To take the title of "Asia's first", the Indian project will have to beat developments at South Korea's Sihwa Lake, a tidal array under construction on that country's west coast.
The tidal plant will be built by a British company, Atlantis Resources, which says Gujurat has good potential for tidal exploitation.
"About 2 1/2 years ago we ran a global study of tidal power resources and came up with some hot spots where resource seemed pretty well matched to load," Atlantis Chief Executive Officer Tim Cornelius said.
"One of them was the Gulf of Kutch -- and since then we've had wonderful support from the government, culminating in the announcement that the project was going ahead," he told BBC News.
The cost of the initial 50-megawatt farm is estimated at about $150 million.
Material makes electricity from waste heat
EVANSTON, Ill. (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've found a material that can generate electricity from the waste heat of car exhaust systems or industrial processes and equipment.
Researchers at Northwestern University placed nanocrystals of rock salt into lead telluride to create a material that is expected to be able to convert 14 percent of heat waste to electricity, a university release said Tuesday.
"It has been known for 100 years that semiconductors have this property that can harness electricity," chemistry Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis said. "To make this an efficient process, all you need is the right material, and we have found a recipe or system to make this material."
"We can put this material inside of an inexpensive device with a few electrical wires and attach it to something like a light bulb," said Vinayak Dravid, professor of materials science and engineering and co-author of the paper. "The device can make the light bulb more efficient by taking the heat it generates and converting part of the heat, 10 to 15 percent, into a more useful energy like electricity."
Automotive, chemical, brick, glass and other industries that use heat to make products could make their systems more efficient with the use of this scientific discovery, Kanatzidis said.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Algae Fuels – Are You Upto the Challenge?
here is a worthy cause of action by doers -get involed in solutions
10th January, 2011
Algae Fuels – Are You Upto the Challenge?
Hi all,
This is the second note I am sending within a week for the team being
formed for an ambitious algae fuel project (see my earlier note from
here - http://www.oilgae.com/mlist/archives/6_jan_2011.html ). This is
undertaken by one of India's most prestigious companies with a history
of overcoming daunting challenges. Oilgae is assisting the company in
putting together a world class team that can come up with breakthrough
ideas to make algae fuels a reality.
The project will be predominantly based out of India, so you should be
willing to relocate and work in India, or at least be based out of
India part of the time.
After I sent the earlier note, I had a number of enquiries in which I
was specifically asked about the type of research that needs be
undertaken. I felt I could answer many of these queries by providing
details of the analysis Oilgae had done on the various challenges.
These challenges will give you an idea of the types of expertise that
our client is looking for in their ideal team.
Challenges and Required Expertise
Challenges outlined are as follows:
Strain Selection
Producing and Maintaining High Yields
CO2 Capture at Power Plants and Transportation to Ponds/PBRs
Overcoming Contamination in Open Cultivation Systems
Enhancing the Algal CO2 Capture %
Photobioreactor Design
Harvesting and Drying
Conversion of Algae Oil to Biodiesel
Energy Consumption
Strain Selection – The most important oil-bearing algae strains have
been researched for over two decades. While some of these strains do
present attractive potential, scientists are yet to zoom into one
strain or a small set of strains that will have all the desired
traits. In this context, opinion is divided on the best way to go
forward - natural strains or genetically modified strains. In order to
find solutions for the key challenges present in this stage, we feel
that one or more of the following experts will be required: Algal
biologists, Botanists, Marine biologists, Genetic engineers/molecular
biologists
Producing and Maintaining High Yields – Literature and a few pilot
programs suggest that algae can produce yields of up to 100 T of dry
biomass per hectare per year and about 30 T oil, even under open
cultivation systems. On the other hand, rarely have these numbers been
achieved in reality. What are the key factors that really hold back
the actual potential of algae in this regard? How can we overcome
these? In order to find answers for these, professionals who are
specifically focusing on algae metabolism and related aspects will be
required.
CO2 Capture at Power Plants and Transportation to Ponds/PBRs – A
concentrated CO2 source is critical for algal growth. By using large
quantities of CO2 emitted from power plants for this, we also tackle
the problem of climate change and global warming. However, there are
many challenges for CO2 capture, transportation and distribution to
ponds or photobioreactors. We feel that innovative experts/researchers
in chemical and process engineering will be a useful addition to the
team in this context.
Overcoming Contamination in Open Cultivation Systems – While open
ponds are more economical than closed and controlled systems such as
photobioreactors, they have significantly higher disturbances from the
external environment, the chief among these being contamination.
Overcoming the contamination and related challenges will require the
expertise of botanists and aquaculture specialists.
Enhancing the Algal CO2 Capture % – With high yields and at
approximately 1.8 T of CO2 capture per T of algae biomass, algae is a
serious candidate in our fight against global warming. However, in the
real world, less than 50% of the CO2 delivered to the open pond
systems is captured by the algae, owing to a variety of factors. How
can this rate be increased substantially? What innovative ideas from
biologists and engineers could achieve this? For answers to these,
research will be required in the domains of algal metabolism and plant
biotechnology.
Photobioreactor Design – Photobioreactors can result in up to 3X
productivity increases – even the critics agree to this. But
photobioreactors are prohibitively expensive today both in their
capital and operating costs, owing primarily to equipments such as
pumps, degassers and lighting and sensor systems. Are there creative
ways by which photobioreactor costs could be brought down by an order
of magnitude? Engineers with backgrounds in innovative systems design
and bioprocess systems could come in handy for this.
Harvesting and Drying – Harvesting algae, especially microalgae, is no
joke – it takes large external energy inputs. Dewatering and drying
pose similar challenges. Traditional methods to harvest and dry
microalgae will not make the cut. Disruptive concepts and innovations
that can make harvesting and drying effective and economical need to
conceptualized by professionals such as cellular physiologists,
biologists & system engineers.
Conversion of Algae Oil to Biodiesel: Algal oil has not been used on a
large scale so far to produce biodiesel. As a result, the lipid
chemistry in the context of conversion to fuel is not well understood.
In addition, oil from different algae strains could vary significantly
in their chemistry and these could pose specific challenges – for
instance, high amounts of Free Fatty Acids (FFA) in oil from specific
strains could create problems during transesterification. The team
will require innovative chemical engineers to find suitable solutions
to these challenges.
Energy Consumption – There is a need to reduce energy consumption at
every stage of the algae-to-fuel value chain, whether the option is
open pond or photobioreactors. For instance, paddle wheels for open
ponds and control systems for photobioreactors are electricity
guzzlers. How can we use our existing knowledge of algae metabolism,
physics and an intimate knowledge of nature to reduce energy
consumption without affecting algae yield? Solving this puzzle will
require combined efforts from creative engineers, physicists as well
as maverick thinkers.
The Ideal Team
We are assisting our client in getting together a team comprising
best-of-breed experts to tackle all the above discussed challenges.
The challenges can be broadly classified into biological and
engineering challenges. Thus, two specific types of researchers are
required – those excited about bringing about biological breakthroughs
and others who are passionate about coming up with novel ideas to
solve to intractable engineering problems. Beyond these, a can-do
attitude is required in order to succeed in this highly challenging
domain.
If you feel you have the potential to come up with breakthrough ideas
and can be a key contributor to this exciting research venture, this
is an opportunity you shouldn't miss.
Interested? Send your profile and related details to Sumukhi
Sreevatsan - s.sreevatsan@oilgae.com
Narasimhan Santhanam
Co-founder & Director
Oilgae – Home of Algae Energy @ www.oilgae.com
narsi@oilgae.com
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