OriginOil ships its first algae harvester

OriginOil has shipped the first production model of its Algae Appliance harvester to Paris-based Ennesys, in an urban algae joint venture. The programme aims to demonstrate that algae can help achieve eco-sustainability for large building complexes. OriginOil’s entry-level Algae Appliance, the Model 4, is designed to process up to four litres of dilute algae water per minute without the use of chemicals, into an algae concentrate.

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Algae, 600x (Photo credit: smaller.pathological.ca)

OriginOil broadens focus from algae

OriginOil, Inc, the developer of technology to make algae a viable alternative to petroluem, has announced that its platform technology which separates solids from liquids in a single pass, without the use of chemicals, has market implications beyond the algae industry.

"Oil and gas drilling, industrial wastewater treatment, toxic remediation and any place that organic solids are separated out of liquids may be a potential growth market for our suite of extraction technologies," says OriginOil CEO, Riggs Eckelberry.

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English: Green algae o rocks at ShihTiPing (giant stone steps) coastal area in Taiwan 中文: 石梯坪石頭上的綠藻類 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)