Archive for 2019

Gin from peas, infinite hoodie, plant shoe, light and heat stabilizers for agricultural plastics, slimy sea lettuce for biofuels, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 24th

Gin from peas, infinite hoodie, plant shoe, light and heat stabilizers for agricultural plastics, slimy sea lettuce for biofuels, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 24th

July 23, 2019 |

Gin being made from pea fermentation instead of wheat fermentation, slimy sea lettuce as a feedstock for biofuels, Icelandair is one of the first airlines to start using biodegradable single-use items, , adidas and stella mccartney created a biodegradable tennis dress and a fully recyclable hoodie from old cotton, an an IKEA cookbook bring algae […]

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From Pilot Plants to Commercial: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium

From Pilot Plants to Commercial: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium

July 23, 2019 |

Avantium, originally launched in 2000 as a spin-off from Shell, is a chemical technology company and develops efficient processes and sustainable products made from biobased materials. Tom van Aken, CEO, Avantium, shares details on their Dawn Technology biorefinery which has an operational pilot plant, their Mekong Process to convert industrial sugars to bioMEG which is […]

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Negatonnes: Beyond the ZEV, the negative emission vehicle and its amazing hydrogen fuel and electric drive

Negatonnes: Beyond the ZEV, the negative emission vehicle and its amazing hydrogen fuel and electric drive

July 22, 2019 |

Wandering the halls at the BIO World Congress and later to be seen again at ABLC NEXT this November, we ran across one of the most interesting technologies relating to ethanol production and markets we have seen in a month of Sundays, perhaps two months’ worth. The problem First, let’s revisit the problem. There’s simply […]

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Renewable Hydrogen: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to SBI BioEnergy

Renewable Hydrogen: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to SBI BioEnergy

July 22, 2019 |

Today’s top story talks about the value of hydrogen so what better Multi-Slide Guide than SBI BioEnergy and their renewable fuel process including their new venture of what they call bio-hydrogen using a proprietary catalytic technology. Simply put, they turn bioethanol into green hydrogen via their catalytic converter. Dr. Inder Pal Singh, SBI’s Founding President & CEO, […]

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Ayas Renewables in final site selection phase of large-scale crude glycerol to propylene glycol plant

Ayas Renewables in final site selection phase of large-scale crude glycerol to propylene glycol plant

July 22, 2019 |

In Alabama, Ayas Renewables, Inc. has completed definitive engineering and is in the process of final site selection for a large-scale domestic plant to convert low-value waste biodiesel crude glycerol into high-value propylene glycol using the company’s revolutionary vapor-phase process. The patented process is based on award-winning research conducted by Dr. William Sutterlin in cooperation […]

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Airgas opens carbon dioxide and dry ice facility collocated with Pacific Ethanol plant

Airgas opens carbon dioxide and dry ice facility collocated with Pacific Ethanol plant

July 22, 2019 |

In California, Airgas, an Air Liquide company, announced the grand opening of its new liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice facility in Stockton. The facility, which was engineered to have minimal environmental impact, is a zero runoff/discharge site. Technology at the site will capture and recycle all process and rain water that comes in contact with […]

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UAE’s Neutral Fuels expands into India and Bahrain with eye on IPO

UAE’s Neutral Fuels expands into India and Bahrain with eye on IPO

July 22, 2019 |

In the UAE, the National newspaper reports that local company Neutral Fuels who fuels McDonald’s fleet with UCO-based biodiesel based on its own UCO is expanding into India and Bahrain with the Indian facility near New Delhi under commissioning at the moment. Two more facilities are also under development in the UAE following a successful […]

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Renewable oil refinery possibility for ReEnergy’s former Lyonsdale Biomass power plant

Renewable oil refinery possibility for ReEnergy’s former Lyonsdale Biomass power plant

July 22, 2019 |

In New York state, the Lyonsdale Biomass energy facility will be dismantled this summer and the vacant 46-acre property will be transferred to the Lewis County Industrial Development Agency under the terms of an agreement recently executed by the two parties. Under the terms of the agreement, ReEnergy will continue to work with the Lewis […]

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Ethanol producers finally seen reining in production as market hits back hard

Ethanol producers finally seen reining in production as market hits back hard

July 22, 2019 |

In New York state, Reuters reports that ethanol production is set to reduce significantly across the Midwest as producers respond to market signals including low and negative margins, increasing stocks and slow export demand despite additional demand from summer driving season and the recent deregulation of year-round E15. Production and stocks are at the highest […]

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Philippines Q4 quota down slightly but 2019 total domestic ethanol demand rises

Philippines Q4 quota down slightly but 2019 total domestic ethanol demand rises

July 22, 2019 |

In the Philippines, Reuters reports that the government has cut its quarterly ethanol quota by just over 2.5% for Q4 compared to Q3 at 88,800 cu m, which breaks down to 27,100 cu m for October, 31,000 cu m for November and 30,700 cu m for December in response to expected availability of domestic ethanol […]

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