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Algae, like other organisms, host microbiomes, which are bacterial communities that live associated with them. Just as human microbiomes...

The ALGECO Team ran the last algae cultivation trial at NIVA’s pilot facility in Solbergstrand in spring 2024. During 2023, NIVA improved...

As mentioned in the last update , the lab operators are crucial to the water analyses. They are responsible for the analyses throughout...

Veas is Norway’s largest wastewater treatment plant. It handles the effluent from the equivalent of 800,000 persons daily in the western...

Production of microalgae biochar was conducted by ALGECO project partner SINTEF Energy Research in 2023. In 2024, the produced microalgae...

The beginning of 2024 saw the addition of Flinders University to the ALGECO Consortium, and the start of collaboration between our WP4...

A core part of the ALGECO project is understanding the environmental and economic aspects of the new products under development. In work...

The year 2023 came to a close on a high note, with our first master's student successfully defending their thesis: Using algae as a...

The year has just started and NIVA is already working hard on unraveling microalgae's nutritional consumption when growing in VEAS...

Summer 2023 was busy at the Solbergstrand pilot facility. The two 1000-liter raceway ponds were operated for a cumulative 115 days and...

The effectiveness of freeze-dried algal biomass as a nutrient source was tested on Crispi lettuce plants with some interesting results....

Production of microalgae biochar has been conducted by ALGECO project partner SINTEF Energy Research. The dried microalgae was pyrolyzed...

Algae strains Stigeoclonium sp. (K-0018) is shown on the left and Oedogonium vaucheri (k-0094) is shown on the right (Source: Bushra...

Veas, Norway’s largest wastewater plant, has an ambitious strategy towards 2040 to take on a broader role than just treating wastewater...

WP5 will investigate the environmental, economic, and social feasibility of the ALGECO project. The overall concept is to try and...

The use of microalgae as a slow-release biofertiliser has gained a lot of interest in the horticultural industry and become a popular...

Microalgae is a promising source of biomass for generating diverse chemicals, fuels, and other materials. Among different routes to...

At the beginning of November 2022, the last pilot trial of the year for ALGECO ran at NIVA’s pilot facility. Although the temperature...

This summer has been a busy one at NIVA’s Solbergstrand marine research station. The ALGECO team has been growing algae on VEAS municipal...

We want to end up with a robust polyculture of different algae that grow well and efficiently deplete the nutrients provided in the...