Single-cell organism may hold the key to sustainable jet fuel
Japanese oil giant Nippon Oil and technology company Hitachi Plant Technologies have announced that they have been successful in developing renewable oils, suitable for jet fuel, from the single-cell Euglena organism.
The two companies are collaborating on the development of a ground-breaking new technology to grow the Euglena micro-organism and harvest renewable oils from it. The organisms are said to have both hetrotrophic abilities to consume foods as well as photosynthesize energy using chloroplasts.
The project’s leaders are aiming to reduce production costs below AUD 1.00 per litre, and are working to convert the oils to renewable jet fuel. This has been made possible by the development of a culturing system to produce Euglana at higher productivity rates than corn or sugarcane.
The companies expect to produce Euglena biofuel by 2015.
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