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AlgaeVS Home » Our Philosophy » AlgaeVS Commercialization Plans

AlgaeVS Commercialization Plans

Rapid improvements to the various components that make up the RAF Systems will occur during the initial three years of research and design. Each of the subsystems will be improved from today’s current technology. The new systems will be designed for manufacturing and assembly, material costs will be reduced, and operating efficiencies will be increased. In the fourth year, factories that are dedicated to the production of various RAF System components will come online.

Ultimately, the first level of scale production is estimated to require nearly 450 million dollars of investment to perfect and build the infrastructure required to build 24,000 acres of RAF Systems per year. Some production facilities would be acquired, expanded, and located appropriately. Scale is defined as 80 acres of RAF Systems installed each day for 300 days per year. These RAF Systems will produce up to 20,000 gallons of algae oil per acre at $1 per gallon, which can be converted to gasoline, diesel, and other fuels for less than $2 per gallon.

On the path to scale, all facilities and operations have the capacity to produce fuels and feedstocks for testing and for the marketplace. This will create jobs and provide the groundwork required to build an algae based bio-energy industry.

AlgaeVS expects to have the capability to produce and sell commercial turnkey RAF Systems for the production of biofuels. AlgaeVS will produce and install RAF Systems at customer locations, while additionally providing all training and maintenance required to operate the RAF System. This will enable a rapid move to mass production that will make the RAF System economically viable.

In order to reach these goals, AlgaeVS will rapidly advance RAF System technology while concurrently commercializing the RAF System.

Potential Products

The RAF System will be the backbone of an extensive algae industry that has the potential to retain $35 billion dollars that leaves Ohio for petroleum and petroleum based chemicals and products each year. Ohio algae farms could satisfy the petroleum needs of the entire state using about 520,000 acres of land (either tillable or non-tillable farm or urban brown fields).

Algae are remarkable and efficient biological factories capable of taking a waste (zero energy) form of carbon (CO2), and converting it into a variety of useful products. The products are derived from the algae oil or from the algae biomass. Virtually any products that are produced from petroleum will be efficiently produced from algae, once the RAF Systems are in full scale operation. In addition to these products the residual algae biomass can be used as a high quality fertilizer or animal feed. As an added benefit algae have the potential to sequester large amounts of CO2 and purify waste water.