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MBD Energy Limited is currently piloting the capture and recycling of waste industrial flue-gas emissions, including CO2 and in a separate project, coal mine methane gas, that we anticipate will have a range of commercial applications at a larger scale.

The company has so far successfully piped CO2 smokestack emissions from a major Australian coal fired power station and recycling this waste nutrient (together with contaminated ash-dam water), to grow algal biomass.

Next steps will see optimisation of the process and the gradual completion of a display plant adjacent to the host power station. The trial will help determine the commerciality and scalability of the 'algal synthesis' abatement concept. The company is currently also piloting a similar project at a gas-fired power station in Thailand.

MBD is also trialling the use of specific bacteria to target the conversion of captured underground coal mine methane into less climate-sensitive CO2 and beyond that into harvestable biomass through algal synthesis.

The Australian Government has legislated a carbon tax and an emissions trading scheme. All large-scale stationary industry emitters of CO2 are being urged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions or face increasing commercial penalties.

MBD Energy is committed to work with industry to develop low cost alternatives for reducing CO2 emissions with algae.

Algae Feed & Food MBD has factored production of various forms of algae-based animal feed and high-value human foods into the delivery of a number of waste stream bioremediation projects. Read more ∇		Strain Selection A core aspect of MBD Energy’s capacity to biologically remediate a wide variety of waste streams is our ability to provide a match between the waste contamination type and the biological organisms best suited to help. Read more ∇
Water Bioremediation MBD Energy has invested heavily in research and development of viable water bioremediation solutions for heavy industry (including power stations and minerals processors), mining factory farming and aquaculture. Read more ∇		Transport Fuels MBD Energy is optimistic that alignment between high volume, low cost production of algal biomass and proven processes to convert such feedstock into second generation biofuels will be achieved in the near term. Read more ∇