In Texas, Barron’s reports that Valero’s bet on renewable diesel has paid off, with the success at Diamond Green Diesel helping to offset the otherwise dismal quarterly reporting. Not only did the company sell 870,000 gallons per day of renewable diesel during Q3 compared to just 232,000 gallons during the same period last year, but […]
In Florida, from southeastern Florida to northern Mississippi to the Midwestern Corn Belt, CABBI scientists have struck sustainable oil with sugarcane. But the crop’s potential value to the renewable energy sector earns this particular variety a more appropriate designation: oilcane. A groundbreaking endeavor uniting CABBI’s Feedstock Production and Conversion themes is coming to fruition with […]
In Guatemala, Central America Data reports that the country is looking to finish up its E5 and E10 trials this month with an eye on introducing ethanol blending legislation during the first quarter of 2021. The only country in the region to not currently blend ethanol despite being one of the largest sugar exporters in […]
By Susan P. Rupp, PhD, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest The production of industrial hemp, grown for fiber, seed, and cannabidiol (CBD), has surged in recent years. More recently, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) authorized the production of hemp and removed hemp and hemp seeds from the Drug Enforcement […]
If you missed DigestConnect last week, take a look at this illuminating slide guide from Aemetis CEO Eric McAfee on their newest biogas venture, making renewable natural gas from dairy waste, the switch to making hand sanitizer as they adapted to COVID-19, and future plans for low-carbon ethanol projects like their California ethanol plant, India […]
COVID-19 continues to change how we do things, and LanzaTech shared this illuminating slide guide on how it is changing road and air activity and what that means for biofuels. Disrupting how we think about carbon, alcohol-to-jet, the latest on LanzaJet, putting carbon in the circular economy, and more…the ABLC Digital presentation from LanzaTech’s Jennifer Holmgren.
In Germany, an EU-funded research project BIOCARB-4-FOOD with the participation of the University of Hohenheim is looking for more sustainable processes for the extraction of carbohydrates from macroalgae and seaweed. In doing so, they investigate the question of how these substances can be obtained from the raw material, produce new types of extracts that can […]
In Vietnam, the U.S. Grains Council and Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a memorandum of understanding on expanding the use and availability of ethanol in Vietnam. The agreement promises to further a strong partnership between the two nations and encourage expanded ethanol use throughout Southeast Asia. The MOU was signed during the 2020 […]
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) issued a workforce development Request for Information (RFI) to better understand existing and emerging bioenergy workforce development assets and gaps in the bioenergy industry and academia. BETO supports groundbreaking technologies to produce biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower from biomass and waste resources. RFI responses […]
In Germany, BASF launched the fourth edition of its Palm Progress Report highlighting their progress toward reaching its 2020 Palm Commitment of sourcing 100 percent certified sustainable palm oil, which is a key renewable raw material for the company, used to produce ingredients for the cosmetics, detergent and cleaner industries, as well as in human […]
