Author Archive: admin

Cactus leather boxing gloves, fermentation-based cannabidiol, lignin-based asphalt, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of October 9th

October 8, 2020 | admin

The recent Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates have shown us that everyone has boxing gloves on these days, but now a company has created boxing gloves made from cactus leather instead of the traditional cowhide leather, making your fight a more sustainable and eco-friendlier one. In today’s Digest, lignin-based asphalt is getting a test drive, the […]

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020: The Cas9 scissors inside the CRISPR revolution

October 7, 2020 | admin

In Sweden, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on the smallest and most powerful scissors ever invented: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Digest readers will easily recognize Doudna for co-founding Caribou Life Sciences (more here) and also serving on […]

RFA Elects New Board Leadership, First Woman Chairperson

October 6, 2020 | admin

In Washington, D.C., the Renewable Fuels Association today elected Jeanne McCaherty, CEO of Guardian Energy Management LLC, as its new chairperson. McCaherty becomes the first female chairperson in the RFA’s history, and first among any national ethanol trade association. The election occurred at RFA’s annual membership meeting, held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 […]

Monster on the Big Muddy: REG Geismar to expand renewable hydrocarbon production to 340 million gallons

October 6, 2020 | admin

In Louisiana, Renewable Energy Group said it will undertake a capacity expansion of its Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery by 250 million gallons annually to 340 million gallons per year. This announcement follows a thorough review and site selection process. Construction should begin in mid to late 2021 with target mechanical completion date in late 2023. The […]

Understanding variability is key to understanding how biomass behaves

October 4, 2020 | admin

In Idaho, new research supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office from the Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium suggests that understanding the true complexity of biomass variability involves factors that impact biomass quality from harvest through conversion. They looked at corn stover, ash content, storage, and […]

House of Representatives COVID relief package includes renewable fuels industry provision

October 4, 2020 | admin

In Washington, D.C., the House of Representatives passed another COVID economic relief package, the HEROES Act II, which provides for $2.2 trillion in coronavirus relief and includes an important provision for the renewable fuels industry. If it were to become law, the Renewable Fuel Reimbursement Program provision would provide a 45-cent-per-gallon payment for qualified fuel […]

Over $500K in DOE funding given to address environmental and public health challenges

October 4, 2020 | admin

In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $594,424 in funding for eight undergraduate and graduate student teams from colleges and universities across the country through EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant program, including research on developing a more sustainable concrete made from hemp pulp and controlling algal blooms. The P3 program […]

German biodiesel and bioethanol in July amounted to more than 400,000 tons, a record quantity

October 4, 2020 | admin

In Germany, UFOP reports that demand for biodiesel was steady to brisk and the use of biodiesel for blending hit a record at 288,800 tonnes in Germany in July 2020. This translates to an increase of around 27 percent on both the previous month and July 2019. Also, the use of bioethanol for blending increased […]

AFRY to design a chlorine dioxide plant for Metsä Fibre’s bioproduct mill

October 4, 2020 | admin

In Finland, Metsä Fibre Oy, part of the Metsä Group, and AFRY entered into a preliminary agreement for the engineering, project management and site services of the chlorine dioxide plant at the Kemi bioproduct mill in Finland. The project is a continuation of AFRY’s previous basic design of the chlorine dioxide plant. The chlorine dioxide […]

Yield10 Bioscience completes harvesting for field test program on camelina and canola

October 4, 2020 | admin

In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience completed the harvest for its 2020 Field Test Program for Camelina and canola trials conducted in the United States and Canada. Yield10’s 2020 Field Test Program is designed to evaluate several novel traits in Camelina and canola, and the Company expects to begin reporting data from the field tests in the […]

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Author Archive: admin

Cactus leather boxing gloves, fermentation-based cannabidiol, lignin-based asphalt, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of October 9th

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020: The Cas9 scissors inside the CRISPR revolution

RFA Elects New Board Leadership, First Woman Chairperson

Monster on the Big Muddy: REG Geismar to expand renewable hydrocarbon production to 340 million gallons

Understanding variability is key to understanding how biomass behaves

House of Representatives COVID relief package includes renewable fuels industry provision

Over $500K in DOE funding given to address environmental and public health challenges

German biodiesel and bioethanol in July amounted to more than 400,000 tons, a record quantity

AFRY to design a chlorine dioxide plant for Metsä Fibre’s bioproduct mill

Yield10 Bioscience completes harvesting for field test program on camelina and canola