Energy Parks Australia partners with Aquaflow Bionomic

Energy Parks Australia Pty is partnering with Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation to develop the infrastructure for energy parks to produce next generation biofuels from multiple biomass sources. The first site has been identified on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Aquaflow Chairman Barrie Leay says wild micro algae, wood waste, bagasse and other green municipal waste can now all be converted to the next generation of biofuels, including bio-petrol, bio-diesel and jet fuel. He says the unique chemical qualities of algae can be maximized within a mix of other biomass streams. “This multi biomass approach gives us the flexibility to develop a feedstock mix specific to available resources worldwide. We believe this is a significant advantage for algal biofuels over lipid oil extraction approaches to diesel and jet fuel,” he says. Queensland produces millions of tons of waste biomass every year from its primary production such as sugar cane and forestry. Initially, the partnership plans to build demonstration plants and progressively scale up to 2,000 ton-per-day plants in strategic locations over the next few years. (November 8, 2011)