{"id":1600,"date":"2013-08-14T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2018-05-02T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:17:56","slug":"all-gas-project-achieves-first-algae-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/all-gas-project-achieves-first-algae-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Gas project achieves first algae harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gloeothece3003-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1058\" title=\"selected algae strains\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gloeothece3003-01-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gloeothece3003-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gloeothece3003-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gloeothece3003-01-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-gas.eu\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">All-gas project<\/a>, co-funded by the EU with the FP7 programme to convert algae into energy using wastewater, has successfully grown its first crop of algae biomass at its site in Chiclana, Southern Spain. Launched in May 2011, the \u20ac12 million five-year project has already completed its pilot phase\u00a0 in a 200 m<sup>2<\/sup> facility and a one-hectare prototype is under construction, while in the\u00a0 final phase the area of algae cultivation will be increased to 10 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>In the All-gas project, wastewaters as well as CO<sub>2<\/sub> generated from biomass boilers are used to feed algae, which in turn are converted into biogas and then purified into biomethane, while CO2 is recycled. By 2016 the biomethane produced should be enough to power 200 NGV vehicles such as public buses and garbage trucks in the region of Cadiz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>This original new approach to bioenergy means that Spain\u2019s 40 million population could power 200,000 vehicles every year with a single toilet flush<\/em>,\u201d said Frank Rogalla, project coordinator. \u201c<em>The All-gas project is going to change the face of wastewater treatment by generating a valuable energy resource from what was previously considered undesirable waste<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyfocus.com\/view\/33927\/all-gas-project-produces-first-biomass-from-algae\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 All-gas project, co-funded by the EU with the FP7 programme to convert algae into energy using wastewater, has successfully grown its first crop of algae biomass at its site&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,14,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}