NASA teams up with Seambiotic to grow algae
In yet another partnership that will surely help bring algae to the forefront, NASA has partnered with Seambiotic USA to grow algae for aviation fuel.
An agreement to develop a collaborative R&D program for optimizing the open-pond microalgae growth processes has been signed between NASA Glenn Research Center and Seambiotic USA. Under the agreement, the two companies will work together to improve production processes and to study and qualify algae oil from alternative species and production processes as candidate aviation fuel at NASA’s test facilities.
“Under a Space Act Agreement, NASA is partnering with Seambiotic USA to model growth processes for microalgae for use as aviation biofuel feedstock,” said Prof. Ami Ben-Amotz, Chief Scientific Adviser to Seambiotic. “The goal of the Agreement is to make use of NASA’s expertise in large scale computational modeling and combine it with Seambiotic’s biological process modeling to make advances in biomass process cost reduction.”
Here is an article from CleanTech discussing the same partnership.
