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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to UPM Biofuels

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to UPM Biofuels

June 4, 2024 |

The BioFore company, the Finnish Forest Giant, the hydrocarbons from the woods folk, by any name this forest products company has made a splash with its hydrocarbons from wood technologies and a successful leap to commercial scale — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — from a wood basket outlook […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the 2023 Billion-Ton Report

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the 2023 Billion-Ton Report

June 3, 2024 |

The new Billion Ton Study is out and Oak Ridge’s Matt Langholtz has the highlights in this ABLC 2024 presentation. He noted that the bioeconomy currently provides 340 million tons biomass; that currently available resources can double biomass in the near term; that a mature market induces another 440-800 million tons of biomass depending on […]

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BioBTX lands €80M+ for commercial-scale renewable aromatics plant

BioBTX lands €80M+ for commercial-scale renewable aromatics plant

June 3, 2024 |

From the Netherlands comes exciting news: BioBTX, a pioneering developer of renewable aromatics technology, has secured over €80 million to launch its first commercial-scale plant. This investment will fund the world’s first renewable chemicals plant utilizing BioBTX’s innovative ICCP Technology to produce sustainable aromatics — benzene, toluene and xylene — from plastic waste and biomass. […]

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Carbon dioxide In food and beverage applications: Purity and maintenance protocols

Carbon dioxide In food and beverage applications: Purity and maintenance protocols

June 2, 2024 |

By Sam A. Rushing Special to The Digest Carbon dioxide is principally sold in the developed markets to the food and beverage industries; ‘food grade’ standards and somewhat vague at times; however beverage applications demand strict quality standards. CO2 specifications for food related service, as I have observed over the years, has a range of […]

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The Brazilian Behemoth: The Biggest, Baddest Cellulosic Biorefinery of them All, open for business

The Brazilian Behemoth: The Biggest, Baddest Cellulosic Biorefinery of them All, open for business

May 31, 2024 |

News arrives from Brazil that has been eagerly awaited by all. Raízen has inaugurated its new, $228 million, second-generation ethanol plant, at the Bonfim Bioenergy Complex, in Guariba, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The plant is the largest in the world and has 80% of its 82 million liters annual production capacity (21.6M […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the CEM Biofuture Platform Sustainability Workstream

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the CEM Biofuture Platform Sustainability Workstream

May 30, 2024 |

A government-led, multi-stakeholder initiative aimed to promote international coordination on the sustainable low-carbon bioeconomy. The BioFuture Platform aims to promote technology cooperation and constructive policies; to forge consensus on biomass sustainability, availability and governance (sustainability workstream); and, to develop supportive financing mechanisms. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s  Keith L. Kline presented these slides on behalf of […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Low Carbon Agriculture

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Low Carbon Agriculture

May 29, 2024 |

In this presentation from the most recent Digest Webinar on the Ethanol Decarbonization Revolution Value, National Corn Growers Association board member Kelly Nieuwenhuis presented these slides the Nieuwenhuis Farming Operation, with illustrations of the deployment of wind power generation, advanced harvesting and the tilling perspective.

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PX Marks the Spot: Reflections on the Anellotech story

PX Marks the Spot: Reflections on the Anellotech story

May 28, 2024 |

I first visited Pearl River, New York during the July 4th celebrations of 1986, when the Statue of Liberty turned 100, and amidst tremendous traffic jams owing to the holiday, I discovered a path to Tuxedo Park that did not require chancing the crowds near Paramus Mall, and I have returned many times to Rockland […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to ethanol CI reduction strategies and savings

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to ethanol CI reduction strategies and savings

May 28, 2024 |

In this presentation from the most recent Digest Webinar on the Ethanol Decarbonization Revolution Value, PROtect VP Andrea Foglesong presented these slides on building out a carbon reduction strategy, looking for big reducers (CCS, CHP, RNG); immediate impacts (enzymes, thermal coating, energy efficiencies); plus, regulatory program implementation, cohesion, and compliance.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide Natural Gas Reduction in Distillation, Dehydration, and Evaporation

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide Natural Gas Reduction in Distillation, Dehydration, and Evaporation

May 27, 2024 |

In this presentation from the most recent Digest Webinar on the Ethanol Decarbonization Revolution Value, Whitefox CEO Gillian Harrison presented these slides on the importance of focussing on Scope 1 Emissions, Whitefox ICE Solutions – as an approach to CI Score Reduction, and natural gas reduction within the Inflation Reduction Act

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