Press Room
Welcome to the Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation Press Room. Here you'll find downloadable pdf documents of articles that have been published about the company, or about issues that are relevant to the development of bio fuels, and links to relevant websites.
In December 2006, Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation demonstrated how its algae-based fuel additive works in the standard diesel engine of a production vehicle, outside Parliament buildings in Wellington.
Photo: Kirsten Rodsgaard-Mathiesen©
PURE POWER ASIA: On 20 July 2007 Pure Power Asia (PPA) came on board as a 19.9% ‘cornerstone’ shareholder to Aquaflow. PPA are based in Singapore and aim to take renewable energy throughout Asia. They have a diverse range of interests from a Windfarm in Mongolia to charcoal in Cambodia. You can learn more about Pure Power Asia if you visit their website: www.purepowerasia.com July 2007
NEW OFFICES AND FACTORY: Our staff numbers are beginning to grow as we tackle the important tasks ahead of us. New offices have been leased which include a factory suitable and isolated enough for converting algae to bio-fuel. We no sooner moved into when we realised that our new offices won’t be big enough for everyone so we have now leased part of the next door building as well. October 2007
COMMERCIAL SCALE CONTINUOUS ALGAE HARVESTING: We have now achieved commercial scale continuous harvesting of tonnes of wild algae at the Marlborough oxidation ponds so we can take the step up to commercial scale production of biocrude. March 2008
COMMISSIONING OF A PROTOTYPE COMMERCIAL PLANT: We have commissioned our newly built proprietary biorefinery and made our first machine run. We expect to make further announcements in that regard in the next few months. These are major steps forward for us and we expect to be able to produce commercial quantities of biocrude within the next few months. March 2008
AQUAFLOW WILD ALGAE CONVERTED TO KEY JET FUEL COMPONENT: The company announced today that its wild algae has been successfully refined to produce the world’s first sample of synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) converted from compounds derived from Aquaflow’s wild algae. SPK, when blended with petroleum-based kerosene, can be used to power commercial and military aircraft. The algae was converted using technology from United States-based UOP LLC, a Honeywell company. UOP utilized its proprietary hydroprocessing technology to convert the sample to SPK and confirmed that the sample meets the critical specifications for SPK including density, flash point and freeze point. 15 December 2008
