News

Nuce International 2010

Microlife take part in the Nuce International 2010 in Milan Fair from 26 to 28 October 2010

Zeroemission Rome 2009

Microlife will take part in the exhibition in Rome 30 September - 2 October 2009.

Biofuel Expo

Algae on the Move: The 2008 Algae Biomass Summit Wrap-up

by John F. Pierce and Thomas Byrne
Washington, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]

Taking a look back at the recently held 2008 Algae Biomass Summit that took place from October 23-24 in Seattle, it is hard to believe how far this young industry has come in just one year.Last fall, the Inaugural Algae Biomass Summit had a solid group of 350 attendees who came to discuss algae's future in renewable energy. Out of that conference the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) was formed with the mission to accelerate the development of the algae industry.

Industrial production of micro algae: an example eco compatability of photosynthetic biotechnology.

fig-8-cp

Massive algal cultures can help reduce the impact of emergencies on the planet. The conversion efficiency of solar energy in algal biomass crops, and thus the productivity per hectare is much greater than that achievable with traditional cultures.

For example, one hectare of sunflower or rapeseed can produce 700-1000 kg of oil per year, while algal cultures, if performed in facilities with closed reactors or "photo bioreactors" may exceed 20 tons of oil per hectare per year and have a potential of over 30 tons in tropical countries.

Read more...

Biodiesel

Biodiesel is a product of refined vegetable oils, like rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil. The process of transformation is called "trans-esterification". Beside vegetable oil a certain amount of methanol is required, which is usually produced industrially from natural gas but that can also be produced by fermentation of natural raw products (sugar and starch), or from pyrolysis of woody biomass.

 

Read more...

Objectives and proposition

tab-4-cpThe objective is to obtain and put on the market a higher quality biofuel made from renewable sources such as can be derived precisely from the process under consideration. Of course, many other products of economic interest may be obtained by applying the farming method in a controlled environment.
For the foregoing, the decision is amply justified to design an experimental plan that provides for the exploitation of a favorable operational situation and where an intensive cultivation of microalgae is feasible.

Bioethanol

Bioethanol is the most widely used biofuel in the world with over 18.3 million tons consumed in the world in 2003. The United States and Brazil are the major world producers. Production in Europe is still slow for this fuel and was equivalent to 491 thousand tons in 2004. Spain is still Europe's largest producer of bioethanol with a production capacity amounting to 194 thousand tons a year, because Bioethanol is completely defiscalized.

 

fig-5-cp

 

Read more...