Alganomics LLC

Algae-culture research and commercialization company

Alganomics LLC is an algae-culture research and commercialization company based in Southport, North Carolina. The company's primary focus is on innovations in tubular photobioreactor systems and their downstream processes. An additional focus is utilizing these technologies for environmental remediation.

Alganomics began in October 2007 with the idea that algae are a valuable, untapped agricultural resource for many organic products, particularly as feedstock for biofuels.

Start-up and project support has come from a Brunswick Electric Membership Cooperative? (BEMC) economic development grant and a 2008 North Carolina Green Business Fund grant. In 2009, Alganomics received another North Carolina Green Business Fund grant of $59,500 for algae-to-bioproducts commercialization.

In September 2008, Alganomics and the town of Oak Island, North Carolina, formed a collaborative partnership for an algae-culturing system demonstration site located at the Oak Island Wastewater Treatment Facility. Phase I of the project will be a feasibility study with a small photobioreactor, utilizing nutrients from the wastewater of the facility. The impact of environmental remediation will also be assessed in this pilot study. Several organizations will collaborate with Alganomics to create this demonstration site for algae production at a small commercial scale using closed system photobioreactors.

Alganomics seeks further collaborations for a community-based, grassroots effort to improve the quality of environment and life.

Alganomics teams with Cape Fear Resource Conservation and Development, Inc.? on “Algae Downstream Processes Automated for Commercialization," a project sponsored by the Biofuels Center of North Carolina.

Image: Scott and Kim Jones at the Oak Island Waste Water Treatment Center

See also: algaculture