Cequesta - Commercial and Domestic Water Recycling technology

Introduction

1. One can produce 50 times as much biomass ( and consequently bio-energy) per area than soya, corn, or any other plant.
2. More than any other crop, algae has the greatest potential for capturing or sequestering carbon-dioxide.

Some background

More than 2000 tonnes of various algae are produced every year for high value foods and nutraceuticals. These markets are still small. To break into mass markets, cost per tonne of algae biomass must drop substantially. There is a race on to produce low cost algae biomass to be turned into bio-fuels. To this end, more than 20 American companies have attracted funds using the knowledge and theories of phycologists or algae scientists.

Cequesta philosophy

In contrast to our American counterparts, we emphasize the following

1. The first mass market for algae will not be bio-diesel but fishmeal substitute, a market worth €5billion in 2010.
2. To produce algae successfully , the whole process from inputs to final downstream processing must be carefully engineered

• its technical team has many years proven success in algae growing systems.
• it has a superior understanding of algae product markets.

Our development programme

The fact that the world’s oceans are being rapidly depleted of all fish is well known. Increasingly we eat farmed fish rather than wild fish but this is no environmental solution. What is less well known is that farmed salmon and other fish need to be fed six times their weight on wild fish meal depleting the oceans further. In addition the cost of fishmeal has risen substantially during the last 2 years to $ 1500 per tonne and is expected to reach $2000 per tonne by 2010. In contrast to bio-fuel applications, the algae biomass must be produced at $250-350 per tonne - a tall order and not possible in the short term.
The best natural substitute for fishmeal is spirulina, a form of micro-algae or bacteria which Cequesta has overwhelming expertise.