University of Toledo to Add $1M Facility for Algae Biofuel work
(Toledo Blade) By early next year, the University of Toledo’s Scott Park Campus for Energy and Innovation will be home to a nearly $1 million facility to research and develop algae biofuels in hopes of accelerating the alternative fuel’s commercialization.
Ohio University, which plans to increase analysis at its algae research facility, and UT are leading a three-year project with a dozen partners, including some Ohio businesses involved in energy. Among partners are Recombinant Innovation of Toledo, Red Lion Bio-Energy of Maumee, and Midwest Biorenewables of Toledo.The project, called the Center for Algal Engineering Research and Commercialization, recently was awarded a nearly $3 million grant through the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program. READ MORE