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National Algae Association Tours OriginOil

NAA workshop attendees view latest algae processing technologies

Los Angeles, California, 30 January 2012: OriginOil demonstrated its low-energy Algae Appliance™ to industry executives from a workshop hosted by the National Algae Association (NAA) at the University of Southern California.

OriginOil also showed new technologies in development in the lab, and the Max One mobile algae harvester.

“This is the first time in the USA that an industry group has seen our Algae Appliance, and we are very pleased with the feedback,” said Riggs Eckelberry, OriginOil CEO. “We showed an early version of the system last August to an industry group in Australia – and now we’re live in the USA!”.

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OriginOil's Algae Appliance™ - an integrated low-energy, chemical-free algae harvester. Attendees of the National Algae Association's Los Angeles workshop, held at USC, arrive for their tour of OriginOil's facilities. Alex Leshnick demonstrates how a touch screen system controls OriginOil's field testing unit, Max One. Bill Charneski, head of product engineering, points to the Single Step Extraction component of the Algae Appliance. Gavin Gray, senior director of engineering, shows an algae sample that has been separated and is ready for concentration.
Gavin Gray demonstrates the proportion of water to algae in a separation. Will Thurmond of Algae 2020 asks Bill Charneski about the harvesting process. Gavin Gray answering more questions about the end results of Single Step Extraction. CEO Riggs Eckelberry takes up Barry Cohen on his dare to taste a biocrude sample; now it's Barry's turn! Ken Reynolds, Andrew Davies, Paul Reep, Jose Sanchez, Riggs Eckelberry, Nicholas Eckelberry, Devin Angus, Gavin Gray, Bill Charneski, Michael Green.
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The Algae Appliance is a low-energy, chemical-free, continuous-flow ‘wet harvest’ system that can remove up to 90 percent of the water in which algae lives. Dewatering algae is considered a major barrier to commercial algae production. OriginOil released the system in October 2011 as an algae harvesting “starter kit” for producers the world over who are exiting the laboratory phase. For more information, visit our Product Page.

VIDEO: For the first time, industry executives in town for a National Algae Association workshop toured OriginOil’s labs and watched a demonstration of the Algae Appliance™.


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