Biofuels company Algae.Tec has signed a collaboration contract with the Manildra Group for the construction of a demonstration facility in Nowra, New South Wales.

 

Algae.Tec will utilise the CO2 vent from the power stations and manufacturing facilities on the site  to feed into the company's proprietary algae growth system.

 

Construction of the demonstration facility is expected to begin in August with operations scheduled to commence in the first quarter 2012. The full-scale demonstration plant will enable third-party validation, process optimization and marketing of Algae.Tec’s technology.

 

Executive chairman, Roger Stroud, said Algae.Tec is one of only a few biofuels companies globally with technology designed to grow algae on an industrial scale and produce biofuels that replace increasingly expensive fossil fuels. The technology captures carbon pollution from power stations and manufacturing facilities which feeds into the algae growth system.

 

Algae.Tec is a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on the ADR market in the USA. It is commercialising an enclosed modular high-yield algae growth system at the Algae Development & Manufacturing Centre in Atlanta, Georgia. Its bio-reactors use water and sunlight to grow algae that produces high-value sustainable fuels such as biodiesel and green jet fuel.

 

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