Archive for 2020

Germany researchers develop method to help bridge tech gap for ethanol fuel cells

Germany researchers develop method to help bridge tech gap for ethanol fuel cells

May 18, 2020 |

In Germany, researchers at Dresden University recently crafted a novel freeze-thaw method capable of acquiring multi-scale structured noble metal aerogels as superior photoelectrocatalysts for electro-oxidation of ethanol, promoting their application for fuel cells. Their work has now been published as a cover story in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, titled “Freeze-Thaw-Promoted Fabrication of Clean and Hierarchically-Structured […]

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Coalition files opening briefs arguing EPA barriers to increased market share for ethanol are illegal

Coalition files opening briefs arguing EPA barriers to increased market share for ethanol are illegal

May 18, 2020 |

In Washington, attorneys for a broad alliance of ethanol, agriculture and clean fuel organizations filed their opening brief arguing that EPA regulatory barriers that prevent ethanol from competing for greater market share are illegal. The brief was filed in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Oral arguments in the case are expected this […]

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New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project

New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project

May 18, 2020 |

In Brussels, the European Investment Bank, with the support of the European Commission, has granted a EUR 75 million (nearly $82 million USD) loan to ArcelorMittal for Steelanol, the EUR 165 million ($180 million USD) industrial-scale demonstration plant based on LanzaTech’s process, capturing waste gases from the blast furnace and biologically convert them into recycled-carbon […]

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What’s next for biofuels? 8 Scenarios for a Post COVID-19 World

What’s next for biofuels? 8 Scenarios for a Post COVID-19 World

May 18, 2020 |

By Steve Hartig, Senior Consultant at ReCon Associates Special to The Digest  This has been a dramatic time in gasoline and ethanol with demand dropping quickly due to COVID 19 and the related shutdown. It is impossible to know what is going to happen ahead but what we can do is to create some scenarios. […]

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Do we need an Activist Army?: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Fuels in a Green Recovery

Do we need an Activist Army?: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Fuels in a Green Recovery

May 18, 2020 |

On last week’s DigestConnect webinar about the Green Recovery, Joanne Ivancic from Advanced Biofuel USA shared this illuminating presentation about the need for more education and understanding of renewable fuels. From the evidence that it’s a problem to how can we do better to ensure that renewable fuels are no longer overlooked in a Green Recovery, […]

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Greenprint for Biomanufacturing and Sustainable Supply Chains: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biostrategy 2020 in a Post-COVID World

Greenprint for Biomanufacturing and Sustainable Supply Chains: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biostrategy 2020 in a Post-COVID World

May 17, 2020 |

As biology ravages the global economy, we have a once-in-a-lifetime, trillion-dollar opportunity to help shape how biology will also rebuild it, reports Synbiobeta. We can redefine the economy, supply chains, and manufacturing at local, state, national, and global levels, and bring back the millions of jobs that have been lost due to COVID-19. With California as […]

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Airlines for America applaud approval of new sustainable aviation fuel pathway

Airlines for America applaud approval of new sustainable aviation fuel pathway

May 17, 2020 |

In Washington, D.C., Airlines for America, an industry trade organization for leading U.S. airlines, applauds the addition of a seventh annex to ASTM International’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) specification, D7566, which will further enable the use of SAF by the U.S. airlines. “Even as the U.S. airlines work to address the COVID-19 crisis and aid […]

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Amyris gets GRAS validation for new health and nutrition ingredient

Amyris gets GRAS validation for new health and nutrition ingredient

May 17, 2020 |

In California, Amyris, Inc. reports that its first health and nutrition ingredient received a validation by a unanimous Panel of Medical Experts as Generally Recognized As Safe (“GRAS”). Following this successful validation, Amyris will submit an application for FDA GRAS approval of this ingredient (currently not being named due to partner’s requirements), which has the […]

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Pluton Biosciences, Evolugate enter license agreement to advance bacteria strains for biopesticide

Pluton Biosciences, Evolugate enter license agreement to advance bacteria strains for biopesticide

May 17, 2020 |

In Missouri, Pluton Biosciences, LLC entered into an exclusive license agreement with biotechnology company Evolugate of Gainesville, FL to optimize its mosquito biopesticide discovery for commercial use in the vector control industry. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, Pluton Biosciences discovers new beneficial microbes in the soil for use in sustainable, natural products. Pluton used its […]

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Air Products and Topsoe sign agreement for large-scale ammonia, methanol, and/or dimethyl ether projects

Air Products and Topsoe sign agreement for large-scale ammonia, methanol, and/or dimethyl ether projects

May 17, 2020 |

In Pennsylvania, Air Products, a leader in industrial gases and megaproject development, and Haldor Topsoe, a leader in high-performance catalysts and proprietary technology for the chemical and refining industries, signed a global Alliance Agreement to collaborate and work together on potential projects for large-scale ammonia, methanol and/or dimethyl ether plants to be developed and built […]

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