PACE: Producing Algae for Coproducts and Energy Award Number: DE-EE0007089 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Bioenergy Technologies Office Date: 02/25/2016 Location(s): CO Office(s): Golden Field Office
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February 25, 2016
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PACE: Producing Algae for Coproducts and Energy
Award Number: DE-EE0007089
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Bioenergy Technologies Office
Date: 02/25/2016
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) to reduce the cost of fuel produced from algae to less than $5.00/gallon gasoline equivalent (gge), and enhance the sustainability of algal biofuel production systems to qualify algal biofuels as advanced biofuel feed stocks.
Proposed project activities would include generating, sorting and DNA sequencing of algal mutants/transformants; design and fabrication of hydrothermal liquefaction units; growth, harvest and assessment of selected transgenic algae strains; liquefaction of algal biomass and separation of high-value products; design, fabrication and operation of acoustic focusing cell harvesters; conversion of biomass to biofuel and testing of biofuel; development of processing methods, polysaccharide recovery and biofuel production; techno-economic analyses of fuel and co-product production systems; and large-scale production, harvesting and conversion of algae into fuel.