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Biogas, RNG renaissance: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy

Biogas, RNG renaissance: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy

November 10, 2021 |

Winter is coming, and renewable heating as well as power are in the seasonal conversation. For those facing big heating bills this winter from an expected shortage of fossil natural gas and propane, the remedy is clear — renewable biogas and RNG. Companies have been developing hundreds of these facilities around the countries, it’s hard […]

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Closing the Gap in Renewable Energy – the Next 80%?

Closing the Gap in Renewable Energy – the Next 80%?

November 9, 2021 |

By Sergey Nuzhdin, Kristen Davis, Meredith Brooks, Ann Carpenter, Pierre Wensel, Cindy Wilcox, all from the Cluster for Sustainable Seaweed Solutions (CS3) Special to The Digest A rising human population coupled with the damaging effects of climate change pose a paramount challenge to producing more resources in an increasingly variable climate. As the agricultural “Green […]

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Praj and IndianOil sign MOU to fast track Alcohol to Jet fuels

Praj and IndianOil sign MOU to fast track Alcohol to Jet fuels

November 9, 2021 |

In India, Praj Industries Limited (Praj) and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil) have inked an MoU to explore opportunities to fast-track India’s transition to leaner and greener sources of energy by exploring avenues such as the production of Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) fuels, 1G & 2G Ethanol, Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) and related opportunities in the […]

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Carbon Zero 1: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

Carbon Zero 1: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

November 9, 2021 |

Aemetis has transitioned a set of first-generation biofuels assets into an advanced, integrated energy platform for fuels, feed, power, heat and more — branching from ethanol and biodiesel into high-value protein, RNG and jet fuel along the way. The project concept is Carbon Zero, and the central California location is Carbon Zero One.

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Lowering the cost, increasing the value: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB

Lowering the cost, increasing the value: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB

November 8, 2021 |

Long-time ABLC presenter John Oyen brought these slides to the main stage, as we looked in the Advanced Biofuels and a suite of “safe, smart and sustainable operations through solutions that digitalize, automate and electrify industry. Turns out that 62 percent of projects face cost overruns, 79 percent face schedule delays — that’s addressable, as […]

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Electrofuels Advance: Vattenfall, SAS, Shell, LanzaTech, US Air Force, Emerging Fuels Technology and Twelve advance on Power-to-liquids via waste CO2

Electrofuels Advance: Vattenfall, SAS, Shell, LanzaTech, US Air Force, Emerging Fuels Technology and Twelve advance on Power-to-liquids via waste CO2

November 8, 2021 |

It’s a simple idea, using renewable electricity to induce carbon dioxide and hydrogen to form a hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbons, you know, the stuff we burn as liquid fuel and from which we make plastics, fabrics, flavors, fragrances, resins, coatings, etcetera. If you are what you wear, as the New York Times once famously opined, you are […]

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Competitive Edge: PQ Corporation’s Materials Science

Competitive Edge: PQ Corporation’s Materials Science

November 4, 2021 |

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Pennsylvania-based PQ has a history dating nearing 200 years with our first products being soap and candles, among the basic […]

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Clostridia for synthesis of fuels and chemicals: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biosynthetic Pathways

Clostridia for synthesis of fuels and chemicals: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biosynthetic Pathways

November 4, 2021 |

LanzaTech, Northwestern, University of South Florida and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are working on the engineered reveral of the β-oxidation cycle in clostridia for the synthesis of fuels and chemicals. The objective? To develop clostridia to ferment synthesis gas produced from cellulosic biomass by established gasification tech into a range of advanced bioproducts.

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Managing and recovering value from water: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to ZwitterCo

Managing and recovering value from water: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to ZwitterCo

November 3, 2021 |

Wastewater reuse has a strong case for it and ZwitterCo’s membrane products are designed for water treatment, precision separation, and product recovery in a wide range of industrial and agricultural processes. Their membranes are made using breakthrough chemistries that allow for reliable regeneration after filtering the toughest process waters and wastewaters.

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Fueling biodiesel adoption – Sulzer Chemtech’s tech helps vegetable oil producer enter biofuel market

Fueling biodiesel adoption – Sulzer Chemtech’s tech helps vegetable oil producer enter biofuel market

November 2, 2021 |

By Sulzer Chemtech Special to The Digest Businesses interested in producing biodiesel need advanced processing solutions that can achieve high purity levels while maximizing the recovery of this fuel. When Bremfield Sdn Bhd, a leading Malaysian vegetable oil processor, was looking to add biodiesel to its product portfolio, Sulzer Chemtech’s distillation technology offered an effective […]

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