Mastering semi-continuous algae cultivation
The ALGECO Team ran the last algae cultivation trial at NIVA’s pilot facility in Solbergstrand in spring 2024. During 2023, NIVA improved...
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Sep 19
ALGECO’s invisible heroes - Part II
As mentioned in the last update , the lab operators are crucial to the water analyses. They are responsible for the analyses throughout...
Sep 5
ALGECO’s invisible heroes - Part I
Veas is Norway’s largest wastewater treatment plant. It handles the effluent from the equivalent of 800,000 persons daily in the western...
Jun 5
Characterization of microalgae biochar and dissemination of ALGECO results in ICAE 2023
Production of microalgae biochar was conducted by ALGECO project partner SINTEF Energy Research in 2023. In 2024, the produced microalgae...
Apr 22
Research trip to Flinders University in Australia
The beginning of 2024 saw the addition of Flinders University to the ALGECO Consortium, and the start of collaboration between our WP4...
Mar 22
Delving into the economic and sustainability assessment of the ALGECO products
A core part of the ALGECO project is understanding the environmental and economic aspects of the new products under development. In work...
Feb 21
Algae as a biostimulant and possible effects on the root microbiome
The year 2023 came to a close on a high note, with our first master's student successfully defending their thesis: Using algae as a...
Feb 5
Understanding nutrient uptake by microalgae cultivated in VEAS effluent
The year has just started and NIVA is already working hard on unraveling microalgae's nutritional consumption when growing in VEAS...
Dec 13, 2023
Summer 2023 at the Solbergstrand Pilot Facility
Summer 2023 was busy at the Solbergstrand pilot facility. The two 1000-liter raceway ponds were operated for a cumulative 115 days and...
Oct 16, 2023
Including algae in peat growth medium helps protect lettuce plants against stress and injury
The effectiveness of freeze-dried algal biomass as a nutrient source was tested on Crispi lettuce plants with some interesting results....
Sep 20, 2023
Production of microalgae biochar
Production of microalgae biochar has been conducted by ALGECO project partner SINTEF Energy Research. The dried microalgae was pyrolyzed...
Jul 17, 2023
ALGECO algae strains
Algae strains Stigeoclonium sp. (K-0018) is shown on the left and Oedogonium vaucheri (k-0094) is shown on the right (Source: Bushra...
Jun 13, 2023
Mission 2040 – The role of microalgae cultivation to fulfil Veas ambitions
Veas, Norway’s largest wastewater plant, has an ambitious strategy towards 2040 to take on a broader role than just treating wastewater...
May 25, 2023
ALGECO life cycle analysis
WP5 will investigate the environmental, economic, and social feasibility of the ALGECO project. The overall concept is to try and...
Apr 26, 2023
Algae-based fertiliser: an efficient and sustainable solution for Norwegian horticulture
The use of microalgae as a slow-release biofertiliser has gained a lot of interest in the horticultural industry and become a popular...
Feb 24, 2023
Production and utilization of microalgae biochar
Microalgae is a promising source of biomass for generating diverse chemicals, fuels, and other materials. Among different routes to...
Jan 31, 2023
Semi-continuous cultivation mode works!
At the beginning of November 2022, the last pilot trial of the year for ALGECO ran at NIVA’s pilot facility. Although the temperature...
Oct 7, 2022
Wastewater Effluent Supports Algae Growth
This summer has been a busy one at NIVA’s Solbergstrand marine research station. The ALGECO team has been growing algae on VEAS municipal...
Aug 18, 2022
Finding the best algal strains to include in the polyculture
We want to end up with a robust polyculture of different algae that grow well and efficiently deplete the nutrients provided in the...
Jun 20, 2022
ALGECO first trial with algae in wastewater
We recently started to test the newly developed pilot-scale cultivation systems for algae. This will be the basis for our study on how to...
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