Arizona’s Desert Sweet Biofuels to debut gasification, pyrolysis process for algae-to-energy

In Arizona, Desert Sweet Biofuels will conduct a conference in Phoenix this Friday to introduce what it describes as a breakthrough in the production of algae for all algae growers.

Desert Sweet CEO Rick Thompson said: “The model we are suggesting will allow high intensity algae farming to take place anywhere and not just near existing CO2 emitting facilities. We are using a combination of gasification and pyrolysis in such a way as to produce biochar (when added to the soil sequesters CO2), another byproduct is electricity.  The heat from the process allows several different types of processing.  The difference between closed or open systems is not important, although we are experimenting with several types of open production systems.  One low cost algae production system we are currently developing is vectoring algae through Daphnia.  Desert Sweet Biofuels research and production facility has the existing infrastructure to have many groups do algae research which we welcome.”

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