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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass and Waste Preprocessing Innovations

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass and Waste Preprocessing Innovations

June 29, 2025 |

Idaho National Laboratory’s Biomass Feedstock National User Facility (BFNUF) is crucial for de-risking bioeconomy scale-up. Key innovations include the ~$10M WAVES project for wet agricultural waste processing. An MSW separation system achieved 80% separation of unrecyclable materials, optimizing gasification feedstocks. Collaborative research with GTI Energy on waste gasification and biomass to entrained flow gasification has […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Anellotech

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Anellotech

June 22, 2025 |

Anellotech presents Plas-TCat, a novel fluid bed catalytic cracking technology that performs a single-step conversion of mixed plastic waste into high-value chemicals like benzene, toluene, xylene, ethylene, and propylene. A key innovation is its feedstock flexibility, handling a broad range of polymers and contaminants, along with robust filler management. This scalable technology (>200 KTA) offers […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet

June 14, 2025 |

Jimmy Samartzis of LanzaJet spoke on building the new SAF industry. He highlighted the LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels (FPF) plant, their First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) facility. Mechanical completion occurred in May 2024, grand opening in August 2024. Despite hurricane impacts, startup is underway. FPF created jobs and economic activity. LanzaJet stressed SAF is a huge opportunity for […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SynPet

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SynPet

June 8, 2025 |

SynPet offers a proprietary Thermal Conversion Process (TCP) that uniquely treats complex mixed plastic waste, including PVC, without sorting or drying. This non-combustion technology avoids new CO2 emissions. Products include Circular Naphtha, Renewable Natural Gas, and electricity. SynPet aims to create a circular petrochemical industry by converting waste plastics into Circular Naphtha Substitute. Their process […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Velocys

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Velocys

June 1, 2025 |

Velocys provides Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology, including microchannel reactors and catalysts, for sustainable fuel production, particularly Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Drawing on extensive operational experience from projects like ENVIA and NEDO, Velocys is focusing on deploying its proven technology. The company positions FT as an efficient and cost-flexible solution ready for small and mid-sized plants now, […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to a Public Call for investments in sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and low-carbon shipping fuels

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to a Public Call for investments in sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and low-carbon shipping fuels

May 25, 2025 |

This presentation summarizes the key information presented by Artur Yabe Milanez regarding the BNDES’s Public Call for investments in sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and low-carbon shipping fuels. The initiative, launched in August 2024 with an initial budget of BRL 6 billion (approximately USD 1 billion), aims to promote the development and introduction of new industrial […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Enabling Economical and Scalable Sustainable Fuels

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Enabling Economical and Scalable Sustainable Fuels

May 18, 2025 |

Conor Madigan from Aether Fuels presented on enabling economical, scalable sustainable fuels. Key takeaways include their Aether AuroraTM technology for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and diesel, using a novel Fischer Tropsch route. This technology employs intensified and electrified processes and novel catalysts to reduce CapEx and feedstock costs. It offers intrinsic feedstock flexibility and targets […]

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U.S. sustainable aviation fuel production takes off as new capacity comes online 

U.S. sustainable aviation fuel production takes off as new capacity comes online 

May 11, 2025 |

In Washington, the US Energy Information Administration reports that U.S. production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is significantly increasing due to new capacity coming online. U.S. Other Biofuels production, including SAF, approximately doubled between December 2024 and February 2025. SAF, made from waste and agricultural feedstocks, is a key alternative to petroleum jet fuel and […]

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Natural enzyme capable of cleaving cellulose could transform biofuel production 

Natural enzyme capable of cleaving cellulose could transform biofuel production 

May 11, 2025 |

In Brazil, researchers discovered CelOCE, a natural enzyme capable of revolutionizing cellulose deconstruction, crucial for converting biomass into biofuels like ethanol. Cellulose is highly resistant to degradation. CelOCE is a metalloenzyme that uses an unprecedented mechanism of substrate binding and oxidative cleavage to break down cellulose’s crystalline structure, making it accessible to other enzymes. This […]

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Alder Renewables and Bioénergie AECN announce Project Avance

Alder Renewables and Bioénergie AECN announce Project Avance

May 11, 2025 |

In Québec, Alder Renewables and Bioénergie AE Côte-Nord announced Project Avance, a strategic partnership to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) from sawmill residues in Port-Cartier, Québec. This project aims to build a first-of-its-kind pilot plant and establish one of the first biomass-to-SAF production facilities in North America. Alder Renewables’ proprietary technology will convert bio-oil produced […]

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