Solix Biofuels signs agreement with Los Alamos

FORT COLLINS – Solix Biofuels Inc. has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory that grants the Fort Collins-based alternative energy company access to the laboratory’s technology, particularly its patented acoustic technology that is beneficial to Solix’s algal oil extraction process.

Solix is working on large-scale commercialization of microalgae-based fuels and co-products.

“The agreement with LANL will allow Solix to quickly move forward with extracting oil from algae crops harvested at our Coyote Gulch Production Facility,´ said Bryan Willson, Solix’s chief technology officer and director of the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab at Colorado State University. “We will be able to apply and expand upon LANL’s valuable research in our effort to develop energy-efficient extraction processes of algal oil, which is the next key step in bringing to market a commercially viable alternative to petroleum-based fuels.”

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