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Two Algae Firms Get Research Grants

by Melody M. Bomgardner
August 12, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 32

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Credit: Sapphire Energy
A flask at Sapphire’s San Diego research labs.
Photo is a shot from a lab of Sapphire Energy, which has headquarters in San Diego.
Credit: Sapphire Energy
A flask at Sapphire’s San Diego research labs.

Two algae firms will each receive a $5 million research grant from the Department of Energy to overcome technical barriers to growing algae for biofuels. Sapphire Energy, with headquarters in San Diego, will develop a process to make fuel compatible with existing refineries and improve algae strains for higher yields. Hawaii-based Hawai’i BioEnergy will develop a cost-effective open-pond system to produce algal oil and demonstrate preprocessing technologies to reduce the cost of extracting lipids.

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