Bringing Algal Biofuel Production to Scale: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biocrude Production in Advanced Photobioreactor-Based Biorefinery

Everyone wants more productive algal strains – but how do you get them? Can you advance the technology enough to get economical, large-scale algal biofuel production?

Ron Chance and Paul Roessler, both of Algenol Biotech, shared this illuminating presentation at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) 2019 Project Peer Review on how they are working on getting more cost-effective photobioreactor-based production systems, enhanced cultivation practices, a system to be able to produce >4,000 gal BFI/acre-yr, energy-efficient harvesting and HTL conversion processes that use <10% of the energy content of the BFI with an overall 60% carbon footprint reduction, and more.