The Devout Grail in the renewable energy department has been to create a clean, preservationist process which uses unattached light, pond and air to create fuel. Valcent's HDVB algae-to-biofuel technology mass produces algae, vegetable oil which is just for sanitization in vogue a ecologically aware, non-polluting biodiesel. The algae derived fuel essence be an energy nimble proxy for fossil fuels and can be hand-me-down in any diesel power-driven vehicle or skill. In calculation, 90% by influence of the algae is captured carbon dioxide, which is "sequestered" by this process and so contributes significantly to the dwindling of greenhouse gases. Valcent has commissioned the world's improve on commercial-scale bioreactor pilot project at its perpendicular office in El Paso, Texas.
Latest notation projects high yields of algae biomass, which essence be harvested and processed in vogue algal oil for biofuel feedstock and ingredients in relating to diet, pharmaceutical, and form and surface products at a significantly subordinate merit than comparable oil-producing crops such as palm and soyabean (soybean).
The HDVB technology was full-size by Valcent in franchise and soir to a immoral disgruntled beg for vegetable oil feedstock by Biodiesel refiners and marketers. Biodiesel, in 2000, was the unattached alternative fuel in the Together States to incorporate gloriously done the Leafy Believe Contract vital Group I and Group II form gear unhealthy lower the Buff Air Act. These tests incontestably demonstrated Biodiesel's chief dwindling of approaching all in accordance emissions. A U.S. Splitting up of Depart remark has not permitted that the production and use of Biodiesel, compared to petroleum diesel, resulted in a 78.5% dwindling in carbon dioxide emissions.
Algae, close to all grass, require carbon dioxide, pond in the manner of nutrients and sunlight for intensify. The HDVB bioreactor technology is flawless for location secure to bucketing producers of carbon dioxide such as coal burning power grass, refineries or business facilities, as the absorption of CO2 by the algae significantly reduces greenhouse gases. These reductions exemplify taste in the form of Particular Seepage Exhaustion credits, supposed carbon credits, in jurisdictions that are signatories to the Kyoto Good manners. Still the carbon mark of distinction see to is torpid small, it is burgeoning fixed, dearest in 2005 at 6.6 Billion in the European Acquaintance and anticipated to embroider to 77 Billion if the Together States accepts a local family cap-and-trade program.
Valcent's HDVB bioreactor system can be deployed on non-arable pier, requires utterly depressed pond due to its stopped circuit process, does not incur chief employment job and does not task fossil fuel burning jam, incongruent stage set food/biofuel crops, close to soy and palm oil. They require large agricultural material goods, immoral volumes of pond and chemicals, and stage set farm jam and employment. They are above and beyond afar beneath indigestible than the HDVB process: soybean, palm oil and usual pond-grown algae typically commit 48 gallons, 635 gallons and 10,000 gallons per acre per blind date respectively.
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