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Other applications

MBD Energy Limited’s CO2 to Energy Algal Synthesis technology has applications across a wide range of emissions and waste water management needs.

Whilst a novel aspect of the MBD Energy’s technology – the use of the proprietary enclosed ‘BAGS’ membrane system to help facilitate the efficient use of captured waste flue-gas emissions as essential nutrients to grow algal biomass rapidly and efficiently – the process can also be adapted to open ponds and production of macro-algae where appropriate.

For example, MBD Energy Limited is constructing a project at a major Australian aquaculture facility that will help the fish farm dispose of large volumes of nutrient-rich waste water that would represent an environmental hazard if released into local river systems or the ocean.

The broad based application of the technology to a long list of potential applications stems from a number of novel characteristics of algae not equalled by any other living organism.

• Algae voraciously consume CO2 and other greenhouse gases – exploiting, what we regard as waste, as essential nutrients for growth;
• Algae need water and thrive in nutrient-rich contaminated waste water, absorbing and cleaning the water as they grow;
• Algae grow more quickly than any other plant and are capable of doubling in mass every 24 hours to produce algal biomass rich in oils and nutritious solids;
• Abundant algal biomass is cheap to produce and has numerous downstream applications including biofuel; feed and food, fertilisers and clean water;
• Because Algal Sequestration offers downstream (agricultural) commodities production it provides the investor with earnings offsets to the cost of emissions or waste water abatement – a benefit offered by very waste management solutions.

MBD Energy Limited welcomes enquiries from industries and utilities wishing to explore the potential integration of MBD Energy’s Algal Sequestration technology into their operations.

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