Microalgae: BFS fuel plant plankton in Alicante

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Microalgae: BFS fuel plant plankton in Alicante




by Christophe » 24/02/11, 16:45

Quick presentation of the micro algae fuel plant in Alicante "BFS, BioFuel System Blue Petroleum One" which produces "blue petroleum" (but as black as natural in fact from the video).

I have on hand a complete file on the factory in issue 2 of "Eco Techno magazine" which I will scan in a few minutes.

Pending re-see:
https://www.econologie.com/telechargeme ... arburants/
https://www.econologie.com/telechargeme ... nt-france/
Biofuels / factory-Spanish-de-microalgae-to-biopetroleum au-jt-t2.html fr8917

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biofuel / biofuel-with-the-Botryococcus-braunii-t6787.html

Read or reread:
https://www.econologie.com/micro-algues-oleagineuses/
https://www.econologie.com/algues-bioca ... -algatech/
https://www.econologie.com/biocarburant ... ale-verte/
https://www.econologie.com/telechargeme ... di-tarbes/

Forum:
biofuel / oil-vegetable-pure-by-the-oil-bearing algae-t2242.html
biofuel / oil-for-microalgae-biodiesel-links-and-webographie-t4542.html
Biofuels / factory-Spanish-de-microalgae-to-biopetroleum au-jt-t2.html fr8917

ps: the report speaks of 48h cycle time (VS million years), you see Remundo, oil / CO2 it is recyclable very quickly if you give him a hand ... remains only know (and we know) concentrating atmospheric CO2 ...

After all is a question of cost but as long as we do not take into account the real future costs of warming we can always say "it's too expensive" ...

reps: not prevented to burn petrol blue, they could have used a blue flame burner !!! But it's true that this is seen less on TV ...
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by Christophe » 24/02/11, 18:14

Here is the article Eco Techno Mag on the Alicante factory

The quality is "deliberately degraded".

Buy the magazine if you want it in good quality, it costs only 4 € and is available in all good kiosks, there are many other "ecological" articles and it is more technical than a good S&V or S & Avenir (more precise while remaining "general" public). It should therefore appeal to any good budding econologist!

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Here is the summary to give you an idea of ​​the contents:

Note Article 100% econology onprogrammed industrial obsolesence we talked about here there was not so long ...

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by Christophe » 24/02/11, 18:26

And here are the interviews 2 of the article:

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by dedeleco » 24/02/11, 20:33

This really is the future the process of algae and cyanobacteria that use CO2 with the sun to live and make oxygen from 2, 8 billion years by accumulating carbon living and dead !!!

There is a species armada possible algae.

A promising genus for biofuel producing microalgae Chlorella genome with
http://www.physorg.com/news204367138.html

We will make GMO algae to oil ???

And this algae gives you real oil !!! As it does on the ocean forever !!!
Scientists do groundwork for genetic mapping of algae biofuel species
http://www.physorg.com/news187634357.html
Economical, eco-friendly process for making biodiesel fuel from algae
http://www.physorg.com/news157272282.html

Like most green algae, B. braunii is able OF PRODUCING great water equivalent of hydrocarbon oils in a very small land area.

B. braunii algae show promise Particular not Just Because of Their high output of oil goal aussi Because of the kind of oil They Produce, Devarenne said. While Many high-oil-producing algae create vegetable oils deviation, the oil from B. braunii, Known As botryococcenes, are similar to petroleum.

"The fuels derived from B. braunii hydrocarbons are chemically identical to gasoline, diesel and kerosene," Devarenne said. "Thus, we do not call them biodiesel or bio-gasoline; they are simply diesel and gasoline. To produce these fuels from B. braunii, the hydrocarbons are processed exactly the same as petroleum is processed and thus generates the exact same fuels. Remember, these B. braunii hydrocarbons are a main constituent of petroleum. So there is no difference other than the millions of years petroleum spent underground. "

Goal of B. braunii has shortcoming is icts Relatively slow growth rate. While the algae That produce 'vegetable-type' oils May Double Their growth every six to 12 hours, B. braunii's doubling rate is about four days, he said.
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by dedeleco » 25/02/11, 15:41

This type of project is to enhance and recover locally CO2 large cement factories or power plants.

Instead of vertical pipes fields of high 10m on huge surfaces, not very ecological, we can grow in lakes in the desert or in the sea like fish, to harvest, as already Breton on the coast Brittany with the invasion of green algae.
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by Christophe » 25/02/11, 16:13

dedeleco wrote:This type of project is to enhance and recover locally CO2 large cement factories or power plants.


Well if so valued 100% of CO2 coal plants in the world ca is already not bad ....

Finally, except that this only "delays" the release of carbon: once burnt, the algopetrole would re-release the captured CO2 ... we would have, at best, a few weeks of delay ...but that would use energy 2 times the carbon of coal and saving fossil oil equivalent! So if it's not a "neutral" carbon solution, it roughly cuts the carbon impact by 2, doesn't it?

If not actually know the algae grow without CO2 concentrated, in the open water CO2 capturing the atmosphere. If this were not the case, phytoplankton of the oceans would not exist ...

The culture of microalgae in the open air is done in "Raceways" but it is more likely to be contaminated: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algoculture

BFS has also studied the question:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/bio-fuel-s ... t6133.html
https://www.econologie.com/biocarburant- ... -3576.html


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Concentrated CO2 is a "doping agent" undoubtedly essential to the economic profitability (money / time) of an algofuel project!

And nothing prevents, technologically, to concentrate CO2 of the atmosphere, I think we know how to do ... The problem is always the same: the cost ...

The factory in Alicante speaks to produce significant amounts of Omega 3, which has nothing to do with energy and contribute certainly to the profitability of the project!
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by Christophe » 28/02/11, 15:19

Here is a summary of key information and figures section eco techno + some personal analyes:

A) The market for algae fuel:

- Subject of much coveted but difficult to implement industrially
- Exxon Mobil is investing $ 600 2008 million in topic (results ??)
- BFS has already received several takeover approach from the oil BFS (probably juicy) but they still refused to remain independent
- Green Fuel which employed person 100 2008 has since closed, see an article about them:
https://www.econologie.com/algues-et-bio ... -3387.html
- The BFS plant currently employed 60 people.

B) Plant algae fuel: technology, biology and Production (+ analysis)

- Machined located in a desert area (rainfall 300 mm / year, similar to the Sahel)
- The choice of vertical reactors was chosen for reasons of contamination (in relation to raceway)
- But I also think that the raceway is not possible because of the evaporation of water. This region knows a lot of water supply problem. Reactor closed no problem of provision of water.
- It would be interesting to know how is managed the water in the plant (recycling?)
- The plant has swarms of tubes grouped in 8 amats of 6 or 48 vertical tubes by amats.
- There are currently 288 tubes but eventually the site provides ... 50 000!
- Harvesting is done by batches to 50%
- Batch = on harvest (draining) 50% of the volume of each tube and presents a culture subtrat. Presumably 50% is the ideal proportion to promote growth in these conditions
- The substrate rich in algae is filtered on several stages and 99% of the water is eliminated after the paste is converted into "blue" oil (rather black according to the TF1 video)
- Nothing is said about the extraction of oil and its transformation into "blue" oil. This step is crucial for the profitability of the algofuel, so I wonder if it is not a biological conversion process as for the oil Laigret.
- To 2 3% of the mass of algae is used with high value added as Omega 3
- 10 15 to algae strains are very interesting for algae fuel on 1500 that metabolize fat, the BFS plant only uses a single (name kept secret). It is present in nature and is not GMO.
- PCI blue oil: 9700 kJ / kg (but I assume they are kcal) mistake.

C) Economic aspects:

- The establishment of an algae fuel plant is conditioned by the presence of a source of CO2 (I assume that the more economic bonus on quota CO2).
- The valuation of omega 3 bring significant revenue to the process
- I think the quota CO2 are also (to the partner company that provides CO2)
- Eventually, at full capacity, the plant is expected to release an equivalent barrel 40 / 60 $ !! This is 3 times less than the current price !! (We better understand the proposal redemptions of oil!)
- With this process, the operation of only 10% of European agricultural land could provide 2 / 3 the world oil needs (around 57 million bpd) .. ... remains to find sources or CO2 CO2 move it to southern Europe where there is enough sunlight to ensure the growth of algae all along the year.
- So there 2 limiting factors: the CO2 and light (illumination of LEDs algae night).

D) Balance CO2 and energy:

- It is said that 1 Ton CO2 is stored after burning a barrel of blue becalmed!
- The company is very sensitive to CO2 overall balance of their production
- A term ha 40, 450 000 T CO2 be consumed to produce 230 000 blue barrels of oil equivalent
- So we have an "absorption" of 4.5 / 2.3 = about 2 tons of CO2 per barrel
- 1 159 barrel = L or 12 kg CO2 / L stored during the process!
- Or if blue rejects oil, such as oil, approximately 3 kg / L (he hardly reject much) then 9 kg CO2 are stored by L of fuel burned!
- The other figure 1 Ton CO2 / barrel burnt give a figure of about 6 CO2 kg / L
- 1 kg CO2 = 12 / 44 272 kg C = grams of carbon

This seems high to me: where does the mass of stored carbon go? In omega 3? In "waste" in the substrate?

D) Errors that I noted in the article:

- 2 times we are talking about 5000 and 9700 kJ / kg of "blue petroleum" algofuel, I think that these are kCal and not kJ so that it is comparable to the PCI of petroleum.
- Details: oil has not formed only there to 3 4 billion but year after. There 4 billion years there was no bacteria on Earth
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by bernardd » 28/02/11, 15:26

Christophe wrote:- Details: oil has not formed only there to 3 4 billion but year after. There 4 billion years there was no bacteria on Earth


Which is another argument that shows that the original Russian theory of "abiotic" oil is not that silly :-)
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by Christophe » 28/02/11, 15:29

That is true !

I should have said "organic" oil. Well, whatever, it's not the essential in our case! This is just a detail.

In all cases, biological or not, geologically natural oil (several hundred million years) has nothing to do with that blue oil ... which is a few tens of hours ...

We had already talked about these reactions speed flexibility in the Laigret project (action by perfringens in hours) ... which already contradicted the dogma as what it was millions of years for oil in nature. ..
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