Algae biotech
Technology Strategy
A key limitation of current carbon capture and utilization technologies is that they incur significant capital and operating costs, but produce no revenue to offset these costs. Helios-NRG is developing a novel, algae based technology to utilize CO2 and generate value added products to significantly lower the cost of CO2 capture.
Dewatering of algae for downstream processing is currently a significant bottleneck in commercialization. Helios-NRG is hence developing a novel dewatering process to enable step change reduction in cost and energy and permit high water and nutrient recycle.
Initatives:
- Algae Culture and Photobioreactor Design
- Harvesting and Dewatering
- Products – biofuels, feed and nutraceuticals
- Carbon Capture
- Wastewater Remediation
Outcomes:
- Increases CO2 capture efficiency
- Enables higher productivity
- Greatly reduces water consumption
- Reduces operational cost
- Generates valuable algae based products