OriginOil Announces Algae Processing Breakthrough
April 20th 2009, 06:13 pm
Harvesting algae is inherently difficult. Once grown, algae must be concentrated and then broken apart to exract the oil from each cell, which leaves a mix of oil, water, and biomass. The process to extract the oil, shown in a time-lapse video on OriginOil’s website, purportedly achieves all of the key harvesting steps in a single pass.