General Atomics Taps Algaeventure Systems for Alternative Fuel Research and Development
General Atomics (GA) has awarded Algaeventure Systems (AVS) a purchase order to provide its algae harvesting, dewatering, and drying technology (AVS HDD).
| The AVS Harvester. Click to enlarge. |
Supported by funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), General Atomics is leading a group of corporate technology developers and universities in evaluating the potential of efficiently producing a JP-8 jet fuel from algae oil.
The Algaeventure Systems Harvesting, Dewatering, and Drying technology allows for a more efficient and cost-effective process to removing water from algae.
GA welcomes the opportunity to work with and evaluate Algaeventure’s dewatering technologies under our DARPA Algae Derived JP-8 program. We believe that Algaeventure’s approach holds promise for significantly reducing the cost of drying biomass at large scale thus improving the likelihood of producing cost-competitive, algae-derived fuel products.
—David Ordway, Project Manager at General Atomics.
The AVS HDD will be included in the DARPA technical evaluations.
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General Atomics Taps Algaeventure Systems for Alternative Fuel Research and Development