Algae-based wastewater system for Cape Cod
CapeCod.com writes about a man in Yarmouth, Massachusetts trying to solve the region’s water quality woes by pursuing a pilot program that uses algae both to remove nutrients from wastewater and also...
View ArticleAlgae cleaning wastewater in India
SciDev.Net’s South Asia desk reports that Indian scientists working on producing biofuel from algae cultured in municipal wastewater are enthused by the findings of a recent study conducted at the...
View ArticleNMSU, Las Cruces Utilities partner on biofuel project
Suzanne Michaels and Isabel Walters report for the Las Cruces Sun-News that New Mexico State University professors have joined with Las Cruces Utilities on a project funded by the National Science...
View ArticleTransforming the waste from wastewater
Mark Harris writes in the Guardian about a pilot project in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where Dr. Peter Lammers, a professor in algal bioenergy at Arizona State University, along with researchers at New...
View ArticleIsraeli startup harnesses algae to treat wastewater
Only 10% of people on Earth have access to safe water, according to the Water Organization, a nonprofit headquartered in Chennai, India. That means 90% may have to drink foul water, at a vast cost to...
View ArticleDrexel University cleaning wastewater with algae
A blob of algae scooped from a fountain on South Street, in Philadelphia, PA almost two years ago has seeded a crop of the green stuff that Drexel University researchers claim is more effective at...
View ArticleProducing a biofertilizer with microalgae and wastewater
The high concentration of nutrients in wastewaters and in effluents of agro-industrial processes, particularly total N and P, is an environmental problem, and requires costly chemical-based treatments...
View ArticleWastewater Treatment
The release of poorly treated wastewater into natural resources impacts human health and the natural environment. Several wastewater treatment works in the Limpopo Province of South Africa are in high...
View ArticleDeveloping algae to target wastewater contaminants
Sean Myers reports that University of Calgary researchers have found a way to program algae with bacterial genes to target unwanted chemicals and pharmaceuticals that end up in wastewater. Lee Jackson,...
View ArticleMining Wastewater
Biosystems and agricultural engineering professor Nurhan Dunford and her team of researchers at Oklahoma State University have spent much of the past five years developing strains of algae that can be...
View ArticleWhy Hydrothermal Liquefaction hasn’t taken off yet
Wenguang Zhou writes in Sciencetrends.com about work recently published in the journal Bioresource Technology regarding why Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae — a bio-oil technology which...
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