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Home : Economy & Public Policy : Environment : Dow Chemical Joins Algae-based Biofuel Project

Dow Chemical Joins Algae-based Biofuel Project

Pilot-scale effort with Algenol Biofuels will be located at Dow’s Freeport, Texas, site.

Monday, June 29, 2009
By . Agence France-Presse Dow Chemical announced plans Monday to join Algenol Biofuels in a pilot-scale project to use algae and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol fuel. The facility is planned to be located at Dow's Freeport, Texas site.

The project will use Algenol's technology that calls for carbon dioxide and saltwater supplied to algae in photobioreactors to produce the biofuel.

Also contributing are the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Georgia Institute of Technology and Membrane Technology & Research Inc.

Dow said the project aims for "a breakthrough process for ethanol production" that does not use food sources such as corn.

The United States is the world's top producer of corn-based ethanol, but critics say this diverts needed food supplies and land resources for fuel, raising food prices on world markets.

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