Biofuel from Algae?: Ask UNH

Connecticut Business News Journal
Business New Haven01/05/2009
by BNH

WEST HAVEN - The University of New Haven (UNH) will expand its biodiesel research efforts to explore the viability of Long Island Sound algae as a fuel source.

UNH received a $135,276 grant from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology to fund its research. The grant is one of three awarded through the Connecticut Fuel Diversification Grant Program funded by the state's Department of Economic & Community Development. Says Eddie Luzik, co-principal research investigator of the UNH project, "No one has yet studied whether the algae species prevalent in Long Island Sound contain significant or recoverable amounts of the lipids necessary to be converted to fuel."

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