MIPS Project Detail:
Company
Company Description:
HY-TEK Bio is an early stage company developing a patent-pending system to remove carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases from smoke stack flue gas using a unique strain of algae while producing valuable byproducts from the algae. The company’s system mitigates greenhouse gas from flue gases by injecting the flue gas into a tank full of a unique strain of algae. The tank is a patent-pending, closed bioreactor produced in-house from a lamination of Mylar and Kevlar. This patent-pending construct allows the bioreactors to be produced inexpensively while being extremely light weight. In addition, patent-pending LED Grow Lights are used along with a nutrient developed in-house, made from fresh chicken manure and a blend of other proprietary components.
The algae feeds on the CO2 and NOx in the flue gas, as well as on the nutrient. CO2 consumption is enhanced through the use of proprietary LED Grow Light technology, yielding minimal greenhouse gas emissions and high yields of high-value algal biomass. The process produces little to no CO2 or NOx emissions, while enhancing the lipid-oil production in the algae as well as a by-product of Lutein-Zeaxanthin, an ultra-antioxidant that is in high demand in the market place. The algal biomass can be sold to brokers, who place the biomass into markets that produce Lutein-Zeaxanthin-based products, bio-plastics, skin care products, cosmetic and paint thickeners, additives for human and animal food products, and biofuel.
MIPS Project
Microbial dynamics in anaerobic digesters
Project #
6511
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MIPS Round
65
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Starting Date:
Feb 2020
Results:
Principal Investigator:
Feng
Chen
Professor
Project Manager:
Robert M.
Mroz
Founder and CEO
Technologies:
Agriculture / Poultry Science
Chemical Engineering / Chemistry
Energy
Environmental Technology / Science
Nanotechnology