OriginClear and AlgEternal partner on algal fertilizer
July 7, 2015
AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com
AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com
Tests by AlgEternal indicate that using algae as a soil amendment may increase yield and reduce conventional fertilizer cost by up to 40 percent.
“Our proprietary Vertical Growth Module™ system grows algae rapidly,” said Hugh Morris, AlgEternal CEO. “But we’ve learned that the only effective way to concentrate the green water and harvest algae effectively is with OriginClear’s Electro Water Separation™, or EWS extraction system.”
AlgEternal’s CEO Hugh Morris and his patent-pending, closed-loop, Vertical Growth Module (VGM™)
“Preliminary results from our long-term testing on multiple crops at our site in Weimar, Texas indicate that using pure algae concentrate as a soil conditioner may increase yields and reduce fertilizer costs,” said Mr. Morris. “We are working with Texas A&M and other institutions to further validate our findings.”
“Algae is an effective and natural way to improve soil permeability and productivity as compared to conventional fertilizers,” said Nicholas Eckelberry, OriginClear founder and chief research officer. “AlgEternal’s pioneering work indicates that a relatively small amount of algae can create major results in crop productivity, and also help remediate depleted lands.”
AlgEternal’s array of bioreactors feed raw algae into an OriginClear EWS A25 Algae Harvester to concentrate it for use as a soil amendment.
According to AlgEternal, its patent-pending, closed-loop, Vertical Growth Module (VGM™), has undergone seven years of rigorous research and development improvements. The current system incorporates critical features including CO2 delivery protocol, maximizing the rates of CO2 capture, as well as integrated heating and cooling designs that contribute to an aggressive algal growth rate during all seasons of the year with temperature ranges from below freezing to over 100° F.
Mr. Morris, founder of AlgEternal, chose OriginClear’s technology to complement these capabilities in his end-to-end algae production system designs.
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