April 26, 2013 – L-R, Robert Sebag and Will Long watch Nick Sweeney, center, inoculate algae being grown in a tent reactor. The reactor, developed at NREL, controls light, CO2 delivery and temperature to establish baseline growth curves and recreate real world growth conditions, allowing researchers to grow denser cultures in less time in the algal lab in the Field Test Laboratory Building (FTLB) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
August 05, 2014 – A Scenedesmus strain of algae grow in a tent reactor developed at NREL that controls light, CO2 delivery and temperature to establish baseline growth curves and recreate real world growth conditions for strains of algae being grown in the algal lab in the Field Test Laboratory Building (FTLB) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
June 18, 2015 – NREL Post-Doc Melissa Cano, measures ATP (energy) and Glycogen (storage) compounds in cyanobacteria at the molecular biology lab at NREL. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
April 26, 2013 – A chlorella strain of algae grow in a tent reactor developed at NREL that controls light, CO2 delivery and temperature to establish baseline growth curves and recreate real world growth conditions for strains of algae being grown in the algal lab in the Field Test Laboratory Building (FTLB) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
Jenny Lee, Post Doctorate researcher at NREL, feeds examines algae cultures she is growing in the lab at the FTLB at NREL.
December 26, 2006 – Algal biomass-derived biofuels promise great advantages, such as a high amount of oil productivity per acre; use of non-arable land and a wide variety of water sources; the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions; and a good potential for use in producing both biofuels and other valuable co-products. (Photo by Algal biomass-derived biofuels promise great advantages, such as a high amount of oil productivity per acre; use of non-arable land and a wide variety of water sources; the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions; and a good potential for use in producing both biofuels and other valuable co-products)
These test tubes in an NREL algae lab hold a selection of lipids, or oils, that have been extracted from several algal strains. The tubes illustrate the colorful variety of work being done at NREL under a new aquatic species program.
Algae samples back at the NREL lab, ready to be analyzed and run through the Fluorescent-Activated Cell Sorter, or FACS, which separates the cells.
April 26, 2013 – A chlorella strain of algae grow in a tent reactor developed at NREL that controls light, CO2 delivery and temperature to establish baseline growth curves and recreate real world growth conditions for strains of algae being grown in the algal lab in the Field Test Laboratory Building (FTLB) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
