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Algae Summit Highlights New Technology
INDIA - Algae Farming Technologies could allow companies to capture and recycle emitted CO2 from flue gases and even earn a profit from being "green".CEO of the Growdiesel Climate Care Council Atul Saxena says that companies, having issues with environmental control, can benefit from this new technology and industrial facilities do not need large modifications to have an algae farm.
The technologies will be showcased by Growdiesel at "Algae Biofuel Summit 2008" from 17-19 September in New Delhi, India.
Algae Farming for Oil is currently the hottest opportunity in global biofuel industry says Atul Saxena.
More than $5 billion has been committed in algae research by venture funds and large companies including Department of Defense in USA, which can be started at any scale from 1 acre/hectare to 100000 acres/hectare.
Experts from all over the world shall be presenting at Algae Biofuel Summit 2008, including:
- Dr.Ira Levine, Associate Professor, Natural & Applied Sciences, University of Southern Maine, USA.
- Dr.Sebastian Thomas, CEO, Parry Nutraceuticals, India.
- Dr.Mohammad I.Abdel-Hamid, Associate Professor-Applied Phycology (Algae),University of Mansoura, Egypt.
- Prof.Choul-Gyun Lee, Professor,Dept. of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Korea.
- Dr.Karl-Hermann Steinberg, Vertiebs GmbH & Co., Germany.
- Lokesh Chandra Dube, Emergent Ventures India Pvt.Ltd., India.
- Dr.Sheng Yi Chiu, Dept. of Biological Science & Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
- Dr.R.B.Srivastava/Dr.H.K.Gogoi/Simrat Kaur, Defence Research Laboratory, Defence Research & Development Organization, India.
- Prof. Dolly Dhar, Principal Scientist - Department of Blue Green Algae, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, India.
- Prof.M.C.Kalita/Jayanta Talukdar, Gauhati University, India.
- Prof.Subodh Kumar Bhatnagar, Prof. & Head (Cell Biology), University of Agriculture & Technology, India.
- Dr.Shakeel A.Khan, Scientist, Division of Environmental Sciences, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India.
- Shovon Mandal, Agricultural & Food Engineering Dept., Indian Institute of Technology, India.
- Prof.B.K.Behra, Professor & Director, Advanced Centre for Biotechnology, M.D.University, India.
- Sukumar Puhan, Internal Combustion Engineering Division, Anna University, India.
- Manoj Gupta, Nexus India Capital, India.
- Markku Patajoki/Pirjo Kuuppo/Perttu Koskinen, Neste Oil Corporation, Finland.
- Dr.Jubilee Purkayastha, Defence Research & Development Organization, India.
- Dr.Steven J.Gluck, Dow Chemical Bio Sciences, Freeport.
- J.Mary Leema, National Institute of Ocean Technology, India.
- Dr.Jnanendra Rath, Visva-Bharati University, Santinikent, West Bengal.
- Deepak Maharajh, CSIR, South Africa. Atul Saxena, CEO & Founder, Growdiesel Consortium, India.
To find out more about the summit go to: http://www.algaebiofuelsummit.com/
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