LONG ISLAND SOUND ALGAE FOR BIOFUEL?

Biofuel from Algae?: Ask UNH
January 5, 2009 (Business New Haven)

“The University of New Haven (UNH) will expand its biodiesel research efforts to explore the viability of Long Island Sound algae as a fuel source.

”UNH received a $135,276 grant from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology to fund its research…

”Principal investigator Carmela Cuomo, UNH associate professor and coordinator of the school's marine biology program, and her students will collect algae from New Haven Harbor as well as the West Haven, Milford and Bridgeport shorelines. Once the samples [are] collected, Luzik hopes to use an environmentally benign "supercritical fluid extraction system" to extract lipids and test the collected algae's fat content. Researchers will then identify species [of] Long Island Sound algae that could be harvested or cultivated to produce biodiesel…”