List of algal fuel producers

There are no commercial algal fuel producers.

Asia

Iran

• Iran started investigating the production of algae from 2000. Scientific evidence shows that south Iran is the richest area in the world for cultivating algae, because of high humidity, sunny weather, large unused area and salty water.

Israel

• In June 2008, Tel Aviv-based Seambiotic and Seattle-based Inventure Chemical announced a joint venture to use emissions-fed algae to make ethanol and biodiesel at a biofuel plant in Ashkelon, Israel.

Japan

• Euglena Co., Ltd.

Europe

Italy

• Teregroup in Modena: Capacity of 3 million liters producing at 7g of algae per liter. In addition to biodiesel, end products also include animal feed and fertilizer

The Netherlands

• SeatechEnergy

The Americas

United States

There are diverse companies developing biofuels from algae:

• Algae Systems
• Algenol
• Culture Fuels
• Inventure Chemical
• Photon8, advanced photobioreactor, genetics, cell-viable extraction

See also

• List of biofuel companies and researchers

References