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cost of centrifugation - 1961 estimate!
Centrifugation uses a centrifuge to separate algae from liquid. The cost of centrifugation and subsequent drying was estimated to be between $65 and $200 per T, which is too much to be commercially viable.
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Solix can cut algae fuel cost to $3.30 per gal in next stage
It's only in phase II of Solix's business plan that it will be able to drop production costs to $3.30 to $1.57 a gallon, or around $60 to $80 a barrel. Solix has set a goal of cutting the cost of making algae by 90 percent. - Read More
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Solix says algae fuel costs 32.8 $
Algae biofuel startup Solix, for instance, can produce biofuel from algae right now, but it costs about $32.81 a gallon, said Bryan Wilson, a co-founder of the company and a professor at Colorado State University. The production cost is high because of the energy required to circulate gases and other materials inside the photo bioreactors where the algae grow. It also takes energy to dry out the biomass, and Solix uses far less water than other companies - Read More
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Lots of algaeculture data cost here
Algae culture cost data - good stuff over here - some numbers I can't understand but overall good stuff - Read More
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Macroalgae harvesting cost
From some case studies, it looks like it could cost around 50-100 $ per wet Ton if the macroalgae harvesting operations are not too difficult...
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Half the cost of algae fuel production is in processing and extraction
"Dr. Sayre told me that at least half the cost of producing biofuels from algae is in the process of harvesting and extracting oil." - Read More
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XL Renewables Super Trough System for Algae Production
(Sep 2008) The firm's Algae Development Center has refined its patented XL Super Trough System for algae biomass production at the company's facility at Withrow Dairy in Casa Grande. Eventually, the company hopes to sell the system to farmers for commercial production. Installation costs should be about $25,000 per acre, Cloud said. - Read More
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Algae Yield Required for Break Even
(Sep 2008) Wood estimates the facility will need to generate 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel a year per acre of algae ponds to break even, but that the ponds might be able to generate as much as 15,000 gallons an acre. - Read More
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Feasibility of algae fuel in Netherlands
(Oct 2008) Rene Wijffels, a professor of bioprocess engineering at Wageningen Univ and Research Center in the Dutch town of Wageningen, said he did a feasibility study last year for an energy company on algae for fuel and was surprised by the results. "We found the costs were high but not as high as we thought." At $3.20 a pound, he said, "it was too expensive for a biofuel, but not that far away." - Read More
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