Friday, September 3rd, 2010
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio — Scientists and researchers are working inside a central Ohio lab at Algaeventure Systems. They are hoping to unlock the secrets of algae as they run tests in tanks and do examinations under microscopes.
Scientists have studied the harmful algal bloom at Grand Lake St. Marys and have an exciting proposal.
“Could we flip that lake from, in essence, a bad algae to a good algae? In the lab we’ve been able to do that,” said Algaeventure Systems CEO Ross Youngs.
Algaeventure Systems offers a chance to people who live at the lake. Youngs and his colleagues have been developing this technology for the last few years.
“Our primary technology is water solid separation on a microscopic scale,” Youngs said.
In fact, the equipment and machines they have created are already being sold to companies interested in harvesting the algae and turning it into a reusable product.
“You could be potentially producing foods or feeds,” Youngs added. “You could be producing fertilizers, chemicals, and potentially plastics.”
He said this new technology is just the tip of the iceberg.
“Algae technologies is going to explode onto the future before people even know it,” he said.
Algaeventure Systems is currently overseeing a $25,000 pilot project in Grand Lake St. Marys, funded by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
It is hoped the 2.5 acre study will demonstrate the company’s ability to turn harmful blue green algae into non-toxic algae by adding silica (sand).
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
That’s a question Ohio University researchers are helping to answer, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Ohio-based Univenture/Algaeventure Systems received a $5.9 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E) for advanced research on harvesting, dewatering and drying algae. The cost of this process is considered one of the largest barriers to taking algae-derived products, including biofuel, to market. More than half a million dollars from the grant will go to Ohio University for its role in supporting the research.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
In Marysville, Ross Youngs also anticipates solid growth for Algae Venture Systems. The company is a spin-off from Univenture Incorporated of Columbus. In two years, Algae Ventures grew to 30 employees with an $8,000,000 annual operating budget. Youngs says Algae Venture took advantage of an energy crisis he says was sparked by the dramatic rise in oil prices between 2000 and 2008.
“This crisis was caused by energy. We’re going to have that crisis re-appear. Its going to create an awful lot of incentive or an awful lot of depression. We would prefer that the incentive is what we focus on and we get off of expensive non-renewable fuels.”
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Algaeventure Systems, Inc. is a spinoff of Univenture, Inc., an Ohio-based plastics packaging manufacturer that specializes in eco-friendly packaging solutions. Algaeventure was founded to focus on developing technologies to commercialize algae production and separation into oils and bio-feedstocks. They believe that algae has the ability to feed virtually every aspect of the current petroleum-product industry as well as the evolving bio-diesel industry….
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
A machine that harvests algae to make it a viable source of fuel.
Reported by Lindsay Silberman of INC. Magazine | May 1, 2010
To be a viable source for fuel, algae must be dried completely, but the most common way of doing so — spinning it in a centrifuge — is costly and inefficient and often damages the plant particles. Algaeventure Systems, founded by Ross O. Youngs in Marysville, Ohio, in 2008, has developed a more efficient drying system based on osmosis and other natural processes. After algal solution is placed on the AVS Harvester, a moving screen pulls the plant particles in one direction as a conveyor belt pulls the water in the other…
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