Sunrise Ridge Algae Inc. of Houston has been awarded $250,000 from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund to continue the research and development as well as the commercialization of its wastewater algae production technology to produce feedstock for biodiesel and other applications.

According to President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunrise Ridge Algae Norman Whitton, since 2005 the company has been working with Dr. Jerry Brand, a researcher in the section of molecular cell and development biology at the University of Texas in Austin and the director of the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae, as well as Dr. Kerry Kinney, a researcher in the environmental and water resources engineering department at UT-Austin.

Source: Biodiesel

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