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The PlanHow do you get fuel from waste? Learn about Team Alberta’s progression from by-product biomass to a viable biodiesel.
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The ProcedureNew organisms require new techniques. Learn how Team Alberta progressed from an idea to a reality and the steps required to get there.
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The ProductBiodiesel is a viable fuel. See our fuel in action and learn about Team Alberta’s plans to make biodiesel production and usage even easier.
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The PotentialHome production and commercial production are viable options for our biodiesel production methods. See Team Alberta's plan to make a small laboratory process into small scale bio-production and large scale.
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- | industrial practices lay within the oil and gas sector; however, | + | industrial practices lay within the oil and gas sector; however, we |
- | we also have thriving agricultural and forestry-based industry. The | + | also have a thriving agricultural and forestry-based industry. The |
- | industrial processes associated with these industries produce | + | industrial processes associated with these industries produce |
- | by-products of little economic value. The aim of our project is | + | biomass by-products of little economic value. The aim of our |
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<p><i>This is not a new idea. </i>Previous research has been largely | <p><i>This is not a new idea. </i>Previous research has been largely | ||
focused on engineering organisms to metabolize cellulose, a highly | focused on engineering organisms to metabolize cellulose, a highly | ||
- | inefficient approach with very little yield. | + | inefficient approach with very little yield. Here is where our |
- | approach differs. | + | approach differs. Why engineer a new organism to perform a function |
- | to perform a function nature has perfected in another species? Why | + | nature has perfected in another species? Why not just make this |
- | not just make this organism even better? | + | organism even better?</p><br> |
- | <p>We have selected the filamentous, ascomycete fungus Neurospora | + | <p>We have selected the filamentous, ascomycete fungus <i>Neurospora |
- | crassa, which is a natural cellulose metabolizer, with the aim | + | crassa</i>, which is a natural cellulose metabolizer, with the aim |
of creating an organism to efficiently make biodiesel. Our fuel | of creating an organism to efficiently make biodiesel. Our fuel | ||
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beta-oxidation, effectively causing the over-production of fatty | beta-oxidation, effectively causing the over-production of fatty | ||
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Revision as of 20:27, 23 September 2011
WELCOME
Team Alberta's aim is to aide in the solution of a global problem, the fuel crisis, by thinking locally. In Alberta, our main industrial practices lay within the oil and gas sector; however, we also have a thriving agricultural and forestry-based industry. The industrial processes associated with these industries produce biomass by-products of little economic value. The aim of our project is to convert these by-products into a useful and economically viable fuel, biodiesel.
This is not a new idea. Previous research has been largely focused on engineering organisms to metabolize cellulose, a highly inefficient approach with very little yield. Here is where our approach differs. Why engineer a new organism to perform a function nature has perfected in another species? Why not just make this organism even better?
We have selected the filamentous, ascomycete fungus Neurospora crassa, which is a natural cellulose metabolizer, with the aim of creating an organism to efficiently make biodiesel. Our fuel will be made by up-regulating fatty acid synthesis and inhibiting beta-oxidation, effectively causing the over-production of fatty acids within N. crassa. From here we will efficiently esterify the fatty acids into fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs), producing a viable fuel.
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