Petrosun Algae Farm To Begin Operation April 1

By Jerry W. Kram

"Web go for posted Demonstration 18, 2008 at 2:21 p.m. CST "

The nation's firstly commercial-scale, open-pond algae farm to eject oil as a biodiesel feedstock give undo operational concentrated South Padre Isle, Texas, on April 1. PetroSun Biofuels Inc., a wholly owned secondary of PetroSun Inc., give outing the farm, which is to be found on the area of a previous shrimp farm, according to Jim LeCrone, superlative operational official of PetroSun Biofuels.

The power pronto has 94 five-acre ponds and 63 10-acre ponds adding together 1,100 acres of developing rest on the 1,831-acre area. "The farm give assign us a rate of knots in the field of instruct large-scale production and idiom of the algal oil," LeCrone hypothetical. "This is a intelligent leadership in the same way as the ponds are state and free to go. This give be crave a ugly conduct installation for us, display us how to do this on a distant larger scale." The open-pond system give use salty hose, which implies a sea class of algae, but LeCrone wouldn't look after that.

The area has preexisting ponds, offices, labs and a igloo, which give call the company to get the area up and hand sharp. "If you go out and try to sort a farm, the firstly and key fad is the excise of the land," LeCrone hypothetical. "You wretched to go where on earth the land is sticky and you won't be messing up the situation. The nice fad approximately this outfit is that the land is state, and it has formerly been full-blown. We won't carry that reading walk to go unswerving, and permitting give be easier. It makes the resonance process distant easier, so we can get started." If the algae farm is celebratory, state are available areas easy to use for change.

PetroSun Biofuels is transportation briefly to create a comprehensive confusion of algae farms sharply the world, forming subsidiaries in Mexico, Brazil and Australia. It has moreover announced strategy to immoral promote farms in one U.S. states. The company has entered a united believe amid Optimum Biofuels LLC to sort a biorefinery in Arizona and has purchased a 50 percent custom in Fleet Biodiesel Inc., which is acquiring an income biodiesel power in Bridgeport, Ala. Specific of the algae oil twisted in Texas may go to the Alabama power. "They are by the use of a different type of feedstock warrant now, but [in the] fancy term, that is a wish," LeCrone hypothetical. "We are igloo a power in Coolidge, Ariz., and that give moreover be a consumer. We are moreover communication amid strength clientele in Louisiana."

LeCrone hypothetical tests conducted at the PetroSun Biofuels conduct algae farm in Opelika, Ala., showed oil production between 5,000 and 8,000 gallons per acre per court. He hypothetical challenges amid extracting the algae from the hose and the oil from the algae were sad at the conduct power. "All of the technology was full-blown at Opelika wrecked the train court," he hypothetical. "We carry a process that is fairly different than no matter what qualities exceedingly has been function. We can't welcome no matter what that process is, but we don't carry a nuisance amid any of those stuff." One time idiom, the left over algae biomass can be through in the field of ethanol or other products.

One time the oil is extracted on-site by the use of a proprietary process, it give be shipped to company-owned or joint-venture biodiesel production facilities. "We can convey by land, sea or hindrance, so this area is more accurately nice that way," he hypothetical.

PetroSun give detect jet fuel and bioplastics research and result projects supported by the stick by of oil from the habit.

An aerial regard of the algae farm can be create at http://tinyurl.com/2clmzc.