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Algenol, founded in 2006, headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, Algenol is an industrial biotechnology company that is commercializing patented algae technology for production of ethanol and other fuels. The technology enables the production of the four most important fuels (ethanol, gasoline, jet, and diesel fuel) using proprietary algae, sunlight, carbon dioxide and salt water. ==Research== Algenol’s technology allows production of the four most important fuels (ethanol, gasoline, jet, and diesel fuel) for around $1.27 per gallon each at production levels of 8,000 total gallons of liquid fuel per acre per year. The fuel is produced with a 60% reduction in carbon footprint and can offer customers savings of 75 cents a gallon. The technology produces high yields and relies on patented photobioreactors and proprietary downstream techniques for low-cost fuel production. These low-cost techniques consume carbon dioxide from industrial sources, do not use farmland or food crops, and provide fresh water. 〔()〕 Their technology uses sunlight, algae, non-arable land and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol and the leftover spent algae that can be converted into other biofuels. The technology uses blue-green algae (or cyanobacteria) to change CO2 and seawater into sugars and then into ethanol and biomass.〔http://algenol.com/direct-to-ethanol/direct-to-ethanol〕 The process is the only one that can convert more than 85% of its CO2 feedstock into the four fuels.〔http://algenol.com/〕 Algenol’s algae are non-invasive in natural habitats and the company has tested the algae repeatedly to ensure it is non-toxic, non-invasive, and are not plant pests〔http://algenol.com/direct-to-ethanol/environmental-benefits〕 Finally, On one wet acre of algae, Algenol can produce approximately 8,000 gallons of liquid fuels. Most of the fuel produced is ethanol with approximately 500 gallons diesel, 380 gallons of gasoline, and 315 gallons of jet fuel. Overall, this means a net production of around 8,000 gallons of fuel on one acre of land, while corn ethanol produces approximately 420 gallons of fuel per acre/per year.〔〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEg2HmxedDw〕〔http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2013/03/11/algenol-hits-9k-gallonsacre-mark-for-algae-to-ethanol-process/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Algenol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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