Kent BioEnergy Corporation Presents at Salton Sea Authority Board Meeting (La Quinta, CA).
SAN DIEGO -- Kent BioEnergy Corporation has been invited to present on the results and future potential of using its proprietary Controlled Eutrophication Process technology for reducing pollution in the Salton Sea. The presentation will occur at the Salton Sea Authority Board Meeting on Thursday, February 19th.
About Kent BioEnergy's Controlled Eutrophication Process (CEP)
Under contract with the Authority, Kent BioEnergy has tested the CEP technology to reduce nutrients flowing to the Salton Sea. The remediation project diverts flows from the Whitewater River into shallow ponds, growing and bio-mechanically harvesting pond algae. The full scale application of the process is to reduce nutrients, such as phosphates and nitrates, flowing to the Salton Sea from the surrounding agricultural farmland, municipalities, and industries, thereby reducing algal blooms, fish die-off and odors.
The Salton Sea, in the southeastern corner of California, is actually a lake which occupies a desert basin and covers a surface area of 376 square miles, making it the largest lake in California - larger than Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake.
Salton Sea Authority 78-401 Highway 111, Suite T, La Quinta, CA 92253 TEL: (760)-564-4888... FAX: (760) 564-5288 Email: info@saltonsea.ca.gov, Website: www.saltonsea.ca.gov
About Kent BioEnergy Corporation
Kent BioEnergy employs commercially viable microalgae-based technologies for liquid fuel production, water pollution remediation, CO2 capture, landfill management, and production of livestock feed additives.
Based on 40 years of technology-driven indoor and outdoor commercial aquaculture experience, Kent BioEnergy has advanced, proprietary, and industrially-relevant solutions for each of the critical technical and economic obstacles known to remain in the development of commercial-scale production of liquid fuels from algae. This includes worldwide exclusive rights to Clemson University's patented technologies for harvesting and converting microalgae biomass to biolipids.
* Scalable outdoor pond, high-lipid content algae monoculture technology
* Reliable and consistent biomass production
* Efficient harvesting technology
* Energy-efficient lipid extraction and processing
* Co-product based self-subsidizing strategies
The company has operations in southern California, including a 160 acre process development/production facility south of Palm Springs and a research laboratory in San Diego.
On February 14th, 2008, the company's founders received the Outstanding Achievement Award in Aquaculture from the National Aquaculture Association (NAA) at the annual national meeting of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) in Seattle, WA.
