Arizona State University student Phillip Carrier is using tiny algae plants as inspiration for an art installation project as a Master of Fine Arts student from the Herberger Institute School of Art. Read more online at ASU News.
Welcome
The Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI), located at ASU's Polytechnic Campus in Mesa, serves as a hub for research, testing, and commercialization of algae-based products. These include biofuels, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and other algae biomass coproducts. The center also serves as a learning environment for the next generation of scientists and engineers.
AzCATI provides open test and evaluation facilities for the algae industry and research community. The center can assess the performance of individual and combined unit operations across the algal value chain.
Click here to review our services and capabilities.
Mission
- Connect - Serve as an intellectual and physical hub to foster local, state, national and international research and education on algae-based solutions for a sustainable environment
- Advance - Enable development of innovative and sustainable technologies for production of microalgae feedstocks for biofuels and bioproducts
- Collaborate - Facilitate collaborations among universities, national laboratories, and industry to accelerate technology development and commercialization
- Educate - Provide innovative learning and educational environments and opportunities for training next generation scientists and engineers for the biotechnology workforce
- Launch - Serve as a national test bed to accelerate the advancement of algae technology development and commercialization
Partners
AzCATI is administered and funded in part by Science Foundation Arizona and managed by Arizona State University. Partners include:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
Algasol
NanoVoltaix, Inc.
Raven Industries
Salt River Project
SRS Energy
World Water Works
Heliae Development
Intel
PHYCO Biosciences
Algae Biosciences Corp.
LiTree
QIBEBT
Dionex
Fluid Imaging Technologies
University of Arizona
Science Foundation Arizona
ASU College of Technology and Innovation
LARB
Announcements
U.S. Department of Energy has selected the ASU-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP3) for a $15M award for its Advancements in Sustainable Algal Production opportunity. Read more online at ASU News.
AzCATI celebrated the grand opening of the world’s largest algae test bed facility in any university or national lab on February 21, 2012. Read more about this event and follow the story.
Tours of the AzCATI facility are offered year-round to those interested in learning about our research, services and technical capabilities. Click here to access and complete the request form.
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The Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI) was established through a grant from Science Foundation Arizona. This video highlights AzCATI facilities and services and shows how the center is expanding to provide even greater capabilities.
Algae Biomass Summit 2011
ASU researchers take a trip to Minneapolis, Minn. for the largest Algae Biomass Summit in the U.S. to share and discover the latest developments in using algae as an alternative fuel source.