IOE’s technological advances in algae production and cost effective algae processing revolutionizes algae to energy capabilities and product concepts.

Algae offers a vast range of agricultural, energy and nutritional benefits -- such as nitrogen/protein sources in organic fertilizers,  proteins for human and animal consumption, protein/enzyme for high value products in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic or nutriceutical industries., Some algae have higher percentages of lipids and fatty acids, but lower levels of proteins. Others have much higher protein content, but would produce lesser amounts of oils.

The purposeful production of specialized algae with diverse benefits is an essential component of the IOE technology.

After gases from earlier steps in the process have been combusted to generate electricity, the hot exhaust gases are captured and directed through a heat exchanger. The recovered energy is utilized in other portions of IOE technology, including heating of digesters, raising water temperature for increased algal growth or in a heat conversion mode to cool finished product.

The waste gas, almost 90% of which is carbon dioxide, is dispersed in algae production units where they are absorbed into the lipids and ultimately converted, through photosynthetic processes, to algae. The bi-product is oxygen, which is released to atmosphere.

In this purely sustainable manner, methane gas is converted to CO2, which is fed to algae and used to grow algal mass. Doing so breaks the carbon from the oxygen and creates plant carbohydrates and proteins. When minerals and organic nutrients are used in algae production, water is naturally cleaned to a usable form, and pure oxygen is released as the algae grow.

As the algae mass reaches sufficient quantity, a continuous harvest sequesters it for further processing, and the water is recycled to earlier steps in the process.