{"id":16046,"date":"2012-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120903-03n"},"modified":"2012-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T22:00:00","slug":"two-year-nasa-project-finds-that-sea-based-floating-algae-bioreactors-may-be-a-feasible-pathway-to-sustainable-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/two-year-nasa-project-finds-that-sea-based-floating-algae-bioreactors-may-be-a-feasible-pathway-to-sustainable-biofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year NASA project finds that sea-based, floating algae bioreactors &#8220;may be a feasible pathway to sustainable biofuels.&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> In California, the heads of a two-year NASA project aimed at cultivating microalgae from wastewater, using floating photobioreactors have reported that &#8220;algal productivity in prototype floating photobioreactors using secondary wastewater effluent ranged from 4 to nearly 30 g biomass m2 per day,\u201d while noting lipid levels of 5 to 30 percent and concluded that &#8220;Additional studies are required, but it appears that an integrated OMEGA system may be a feasible pathway to sustainable biofuels.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>NASA and the California Energy Commission supported the 2-year feasibility study, at the California Department of Fish and Game, the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant San Francisco, and Moss Landing Harbor.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2012\/09\/03\/two-year-nasa-project-finds-that-sea-based-floating-algae-bioreactors-may-be-a-feasible-pathway-to-sustainable-biofuels\/\" >www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2012\/09\/03\/two-year-nasa-project-finds-that-sea-based-floating-algae-bioreactors-may-be-a-feasible-pathway-to-sustainable-biofuels\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: wastewater nutrient, microalgae, ponds, closed photobioreactor systems, biofuel<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b> In California, the heads of a two-year NASA project aimed at cultivating microalgae from wastewater, using floating photobioreactors have reported that &#8220;algal productivity in<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[3828,3789,3830,3827,3829],"class_list":["post-16046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-california-department-of-fish-and-game","supplier-california-energy-commission","supplier-moss-landing-harbor","supplier-nasa","supplier-southeast-wastewater-treatment-plant-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}