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Article: SUCCESSFUL 'GREEN CRUDE' PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF TULSA RECEIVES $750,000 IN FUNDING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- November 5, 2009
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TULSA, Okla., Nov. 4 -- The University of Tulsa issued the following news release:
Algae biofuels a great fit for Oklahoma energy industry, TU specialization in downstream energy research
The University of Tulsa will receive $750,000 from the federal government to expand and improve its fast-growing research program that takes algae and refines it into gasoline.
The funding comes from an appropriation in the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act recently approved by the U.S. Congress. Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. John Sullivan led the effort to strengthen sustainable biofuels research in Oklahoma.
The TU Department of Chemical Engineering will use the money to ...