{"id":4467,"date":"2011-03-11T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-10T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:16:10","slug":"cultivando-algas-marinas-para-biocombustibles","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/en\/noticia\/cultivando-algas-marinas-para-biocombustibles\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->Cultivando Algas Marinas para Biocombustibles<!--:--><!--:en-->Farming Seaweed for Biofuel<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">La promesa de la eficiencia de los biocombustibles, y la clave en la lucha de Chile para lograr la independencia energ\u00e9tica, est\u00e1 envuelta en algas marinas.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Eso seg\u00fan Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), firma de investigaci\u00f3n en biotecnolog\u00eda con sede en Estados Unidos, que ha desarrollado una granja piloto de 40 hect\u00e1reas de algas marinas en la isla de Chilo\u00e9, en el sur de Chile.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cMuchos concuerdan en que el futuro de los combustibles y qu\u00edmicos renovables depender\u00e1 de la disponibilidad estable, sustentable y de bajo de costo de az\u00facares\u201d, se\u00f1ala Yuki Kashiyama, cofundador y gerente general de BAL Chile. \u201cY nosotros creemos en que nuestra tecnolog\u00eda nos posiciona para prestar servicios a estos mercados de billones de d\u00f3lares\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">BAL ha dise\u00f1ado y ingeniado un \u201cbacteria m\u00e1gica\u201d que mejora la conversi\u00f3n de algas marinas en etanol y qu\u00edmicos de especialidad en casi la mitad del tiempo que demora en la naturaleza.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Las macroalgas tienen el potencial para generar m\u00e1s de 2.300 litros por hect\u00e1rea al a\u00f1o de etanol sustentable de bajo costo &#8211; comparado con los 1.200 litros que se obtienen de la ca\u00f1a de az\u00facar- y se puede cultivar en muchos pa\u00edses con extensas costas, incluido Chile.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Y debido a que las algas marinas se descomponen con facilidad, las biorefiner\u00edas que emplean microbios desarrollados con ingenier\u00eda de BAL son m\u00e1s eficientes que las refiner\u00edas que procesan biocombustibles de tierra, que poseen mol\u00e9culas dif\u00edciles de degradar conocidas como \u201clignina\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A juicio de BAL, esta es su ventaja clave respecto del ma\u00edz y el az\u00facar. A diferencia de estos cultivos, el alga marina reduce las emisiones de di\u00f3xido de carbono (CO2) y no compite con la tierra destinada para alimentos ni requiere un alto uso de fertilizantes o qu\u00edmicos.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cLa alga marina se compone en un 50 por ciento de carbohidratos, un 30 por ciento de minerales y un 20 por ciento de prote\u00ednas y l\u00edpidos\u201d, explica Kashiyama. \u201cNuestro insecto m\u00e1gico usas los carbohidratos de las algas para producir etanol, butanol y otros combustibles y qu\u00edmicos\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Los or\u00edgenes de BAL comenzaron en torno a una taza de caf\u00e9. Kashiyama y el doctor. Yasuo Yoshikuni se conocieron a trav\u00e9s de un amigo mutuo en el 2005. Kashiyama estaba en el programa de MBA de la Universidad de California, Berkeley, donde Yoshikuni preparaba su doctorado en el Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda Qu\u00edmica.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Kashiyama buscaba la oportunidad de negocio correcta y Yoshikuni quer\u00eda comercializar su experiencia t\u00e9cnica. Pero la decisi\u00f3n de seguir adelante con las algas marinas para obtener etanol no se tom\u00f3 hasta dos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde cuando conocieron al Dr. David Baker, profesor de bioqu\u00edmica de la Universidad de Washington en Seattle.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: black 1px solid; MARGIN: 5px; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP: black 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: black 1px solid\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Yuki_Kashimaya.jpg\" width=255 height=250>Hoy en d\u00eda, BAL tiene oficinas en California y Chile, y espera iniciar operaciones en Noruega durante este a\u00f1o a trav\u00e9s de una alianza con Statoil, empresa estatal de energ\u00eda de Noruega.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">BAL obtuvo US$ 30 millones en capital de riesgo y subsidios locales. Esto incluye una inversi\u00f3n de US$ 9,5 millones del fondo chileno de capital de riesgo Austral Capital en alianza con los fondos estadounidenses X\/Seed y Energy Capital Management (ECM).<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">La firma adem\u00e1s encabez\u00f3 un consorcio con la Universidad de los Lagos y la estatal chilena Empresa Nacional del Petr\u00f3leo (ENAP), que se adjudic\u00f3 el a\u00f1o pasado un subsidio de US$ 7,7 millones de Innova Chile, el programa de innovaci\u00f3n de la Corporaci\u00f3n de Fomento de la Producci\u00f3n (CORFO) de Chile, para producir etanol a partir de algas marinas.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cEstas alianzas son mutuamente beneficiosas\u201d, afirma Kashiyama. \u201cAportamos la tecnolog\u00eda y la materia prima a la alianza, mientras que (ENAP9 contribuye con las instalaciones de producci\u00f3n y las redes de distribuci\u00f3n. Juntos, todos se benefician\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Dos proyectos locales de microalgas -Desert Bionergy y AlgaFuels- tambi\u00e9n recibieron subsidios, pero BAL fue el \u00fanico proyecto de macroalgas en recibir financiamiento.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Dado que Chile importa la mayor parte de su energ\u00eda, incluido el 98% de su petr\u00f3leo, es un candidato obvio para los biocombustibles. En la actualidad a los distribuidores de combustibles se les permite mezclar gasolina con hasta un 5% de etanol, pero -desde que se uni\u00f3 el a\u00f1o pasado a la Organizaci\u00f3n para la Cooperaci\u00f3n y el Desarrollo Econ\u00f3micos (OCDE)- se espera que Chile convierta en obligatoria la mezcla acorde con los est\u00e1ndares internacionales. Sin embargo, a diferencia de Brasil, que produce etanol a partir de la ca\u00f1a de az\u00facar, Chile no tiene un mercado interno de biocombustibles.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cEl gobierno est\u00e1 viendo de d\u00f3nde obtener el etanol para satisfacer esos requerimientos, pero ello no ayudar\u00e1 a reducir nuestra dependencia del combustible extranjero\u201d, afirma Alejandro Buschmann, profesor de la Universidad de los Lagos en Puerto Montt y uno de los principales expertos a nivel mundial en macroalgas. \u201cLa producci\u00f3n de biocombustibles es estrat\u00e9gica para Chile, pero no tenemos el terreno para el ma\u00edz o la ca\u00f1a de az\u00facar\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Estados Unidos, que es el principal productor mundial de etanol en base a ma\u00edz gracias a un controversial cr\u00e9dito tributario, no tiene granjas de algas marinas de gran escala. Chile -sin embargo- con su larga costa, industria de acuicultura establecida, fuerza laboral capacitada e institutos acad\u00e9micos y de investigaci\u00f3n, fue una elecci\u00f3n sencilla para BAL.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Otros factores tales como un s\u00f3lido marco regulador, un entorno de negocios transparente y de bajo riesgo en conjunto con las iniciativas del gobierno para promover las energ\u00edas renovables y la biotecnolog\u00eda fueron muy atractivas, sostiene Kashiyama.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Mediante su asociaci\u00f3n con expertos locales del mundo acad\u00e9mico e industrial, incluido el profesor Buschmann, BAL ha desarrollado t\u00e9cnicas de cultivo de macroalgas de bajo costo y alta densidad que producen az\u00facares de manera competitiva en t\u00e9rminos de costos respecto de otros biocombustibles.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">La compa\u00f1\u00eda no est\u00e1 sola en la carrera por cultivar algas marinas. Hay al menos media docena de empresas de Corea del Sur, las Filipinas, Escocia e Italia trabajando en proyectos de obtenci\u00f3n de etanol a partir de algas marinas, pero BAL est\u00e1 un paso m\u00e1s adelante en la competencia.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cHay muchos proyectos en desarrollo alrededor del mundo, pero BAL es el m\u00e1s avanzado y eficiente en t\u00e9rminos de costos\u201d, indica Buschmann.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Pese al entusiasmo que despiertan los biocombustibles a nivel global, dos problemas han impedido su amplia adopci\u00f3n: los costos del az\u00facar y las preocupaciones sobre el uso de la tierra. BAL afirma tener la soluci\u00f3n para ambos problemas: las macroalgas no s\u00f3lo tienen el potencial para satisfacer la futura demanda de biocombustibles y qu\u00edmicos a un precio competitivo, lo hacen sin usar tierra cultivable.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Si bien a\u00fan se encuentra en una etapa piloto, la compa\u00f1\u00eda se ve alentada por los resultados iniciales obtenidos a partir de su proyecto en Chilo\u00e9.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cCreemos que dentro de dos a\u00f1os podemos lograr la productividad de las algas marinas y el costo de producci\u00f3n requerido para la factibilidad comercial\u201d, comenta Kashiyama. \u201cY en cinco a\u00f1os esperamos estar produciendo cantidades significativas a escala comercial de az\u00facares fermentables\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><STRONG><EM>Aaron Nelsen trabaja como periodista freelance en Santiago<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/P><!--:--><!--:en--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The promise of biofuel efficiency, and the key to Chile\u2019s struggle for energy independence, is wrapped up in seaweed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">That\u2019s according to Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), a U.S.-based biotechnology research company, which has developed a 40-hectare pilot seaweed farm on Chilo\u00e9 Island in southern Chile.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cMany agree that the future of renewable chemicals and fuels will depend on stable, sustainable and low-cost availability of sugars,\u201d said Yuki Kashiyama, co-founder and general manager of BAL Chile. \u201cAnd we believe our technology positions us well to serve these trillion dollar markets.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">BAL has designed and engineered a \u201cmagic bug\u201d that enhances the conversion of seaweed into ethanol and specialty chemicals in roughly half the time found in nature.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Macroalgae has the potential to generate more than 2,300 liters of sustainable low-cost ethanol per hectare per year \u2013 compared to 1,200 liters from sugarcane &#8211; and can be grown in many countries with extensive coastlines including Chile.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">And because seaweed is easy to break down, biorefineries that use BAL engineered microbes are more efficient than refineries that process land-based biofuels, which possess hard-to-degrade molecules known as \u201clignin\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This, BAL believes, is its key advantage over corn and sugar cane. In contrast to these crops, seaweed reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and does not compete with land used for food or require increased use of fertilizer or chemicals.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cSeaweed is 50 percent carbohydrate, 30 percent mineral and 20 percent proteins and lipids,\u201d explains Kashiyama. \u201cOur magic bug uses carbohydrate components of seaweed to produce ethanol, butanol and other fuel and chemicals.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The origins of BAL began over a cup of coffee. Kashiyama and Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni met through a mutual friend in 2005. Kashiyama was in the MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley, where Yoshikuni was a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Kashiyama was looking for the right business opportunity and Yoshikuni was looking for how to market his expertise. But the decision to pursue seaweed for ethanol did not occur until two years later when they met Dr. David Baker, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: black 1px solid; MARGIN: 5px; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP: black 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: black 1px solid\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Yuki_Kashimaya.jpg\" width=257 height=203>Today, BAL has offices in California and Chile, and it expects to start operations in Norway later this year through a partnership with Norway\u2019s state-owned energy company Statoil.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">BAL has secured US$30 million in venture capital and local grants. This includes a US$9.5 million investment from Chilean venture capital fund Austral Capital in partnership with U.S. funds X\/Seed and Energy Capital Management (ECM).<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The firm also led a consortium with the Universidad de los Lagos and state-owned petroleum refiner, ENAP, which was awarded a US$7.7 million grant from Innova Chile, the innovation program of Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO), last year to produce ethanol from seaweed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cThese partnerships are mutually beneficial,\u201d said Kashiyama. \u201cWe bring the technology and raw materials to the partnership, while [ENAP] brings the production facilities and distribution networks. Together, everyone benefits.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Two local microalgae projects &#8211; Desert Bionergy and AlgaFuels \u2013 also received grants, but BAL was the only macroalgae project to receive funding.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Given that Chile imports most of its energy, including 98% of its oil, it is an obvious candidate for biofuels. Fuel distributors are currently permitted to blend gasoline with up to 5% of ethanol but, since joining the OECD last year, Chile is expected to make the mix obligatory in line with international standards. Unlike Brazil, however, which produces ethanol from sugar cane, Chile does not have a domestic biofuel market.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cThe government is figuring out where to get the ethanol to meet those requirements, but it won\u2019t help reduce our dependence on foreign fuel,\u201d said Alejandro Buschmann, a professor at the Universidad de los Lagos in Puerto Montt and one of the world\u2019s leading experts on macroalgae. \u201cProducing biofuels is strategic for Chile but we don\u2019t have the land for corn or sugar cane.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The United States, which is the world\u2019s largest producer of corn-based ethanol thanks to a controversial tax credit, has no large-scale seaweed farms. Chile, however, with its long coastline, established aquaculture industry, trained labor force, and academic and research institutes was an easy choice for BAL.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Other factors such as a strong regulatory framework, a transparent and low-risk business environment, and government initiatives to promote renewable energy and biotechnology were very attractive, said Kashiyama.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Partnering with local academic and industrial experts, including Professor Buschmann, BAL has developed low-cost, high-density macroalgae aquafarming techniques that produce sugars cost competitively with other biofuels.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The company is not alone in the race to farm seaweed. There are at least a half dozen other companies from South Korea, the Philippines, Scotland and Italy working on seaweed-to-ethanol projects, but BAL is a step ahead of the competition.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cThere are many projects going on around the world, but BAL is the most advanced and cost effective,\u201d said Buschmann.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Despite the enthusiasm for biofuels globally, two issues have prevented their widespread adoption: sugar costs and concerns about land use. BAL says it has the solution for both problems &#8211; macroalgae not only has the potential to meet the future demand for biofuels and chemicals at a competitive price, it does so without using arable land.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Although still in the pilot phase, the company is encouraged by its initial results from the Chilo\u00e9 project.&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cWe believe that within two years we can achieve seaweed productivity and the production cost required for commercial viability,\u201d said Kashiyama. \u201cAnd in five years we hope to be producing significant, commercial scale quantities of fermentable sugars.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><STRONG><EM>Aaron Nelsen is a freelance journalist based in Santiago<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/P><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">La promesa de la eficiencia de los biocombustibles, y la clave en la lucha de Chile para lograr la independencia energ\u00e9tica, est\u00e1 envuelta en algas marinas.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Eso seg\u00fan Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), firma de investigaci\u00f3n en biotecnolog\u00eda con sede en Estados Unidos, que ha desarrollado una granja piloto de 40 hect\u00e1reas de algas marinas en la isla de Chilo\u00e9, en el sur de Chile.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u201cMuchos concuerdan en que el futuro de los combustibles y qu\u00edmicos renovables depender\u00e1 de la disponibilidad estable, sus<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","news_tax":[],"user_type":[],"class_list":["post-4467","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cultivando Algas Marinas para BiocombustiblesFarming Seaweed for Biofuel - AmCham Chile<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/noticia\/cultivando-algas-marinas-para-biocombustibles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cultivando Algas Marinas para BiocombustiblesFarming Seaweed for Biofuel - AmCham Chile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La promesa de la eficiencia de los biocombustibles, y la clave en la lucha de Chile para lograr la independencia energ\u00e9tica, est\u00e1 envuelta en algas marinas. 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