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Company Information:
Name:
Quartek Corporation
Address:
4180 Piedmont Parkway
Greensboro, NC 27410
Greensboro, NC 27410
Located in HUBZone:
No
Woman-Owned:
No
Minority-Owned:
No
URL:
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Award Totals:
Award List:
Specially Functionalized Nanomagnetic Particles and Ionic Liquids for Harvesting, Dewatering and Extraction of Lipids and Carbohydrates from Algae
Award Year / Program / Phase:
2010 / SBIR / Phase I
Agency:
DOE
Principal Investigator:
Reyad Sawafta, Dr.
Award Amount:
$100,000.00
Abstract:
This Phase I SBIR project deals with production of biodiesel from microalgae. One of the major costs of biofuel production is harvesting the biofuel from large volumes of culture media. Harvesting, rupturing, drying and extracting oils from algae accounts for 40-60% of the cost of producing. The… More