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The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: The United States of America

The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: The United States of America

July 20, 2021 |

As we continue with Gas Week, we’re providing you with 10 National Hydrogen Strategies between now and Friday. Today, the Big Kahuna (or Enchilada, if you like), the US, where actions have been lagging but ambitions growing and a refining base of scale and national importance awaits a new generation of technology for mobility, power […]

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The Digest’s Green Hydrogen Horizons

The Digest’s Green Hydrogen Horizons

July 19, 2021 |

It’s Gas Week here in Digestville, all this week we’re highlighting new technologies, commervcial breakthroughs and new strategies relating to the production of, applications for, or the avoidannce of: Green Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Syngas. Later this week we’ll look at the monster valuatino and progress at Pivot Bio, replacving nitrogen — today, we’re focusing on […]

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The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: Finland

The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: Finland

July 19, 2021 |

The Finns are flying when it comes to hydrogen and, even better, this national hydrogen strategy has some great green hydrogen factoids and charts whether hydrogen in Scandinavia tickles your fancy or not. For mobility, stationery power and above all, for industrial applications, here’s a can’t miss, must-read deck.

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Renewable Butyl Acetate for Diesel: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Butyl Acetate as Bioblendstock

Renewable Butyl Acetate for Diesel: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Butyl Acetate as Bioblendstock

July 18, 2021 |

Does renewable butyl acetate make a good fuel additive? Can it be used as a bioblendstock for diesel to decrease combustion pollutants and lower the sooting propensity of a BA/diesel-based mixture? Can it’s low freezing point and high flash point improve fuel properties?

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Competitive Edge: Bio2oil

Competitive Edge: Bio2oil

July 15, 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? Bio2oil was founded with the aim of commercializing the Hydrothermal Liquefaction technology (HTL). It’s a process that converts biomass to […]

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Seafood to Sustainable Packaging?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Cellulose-Chitin

Seafood to Sustainable Packaging?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Cellulose-Chitin

July 15, 2021 |

This weekend, hold onto that crustacean food waste – your crab, lobster and shrimp shells – it has chitin in it! Chitin is being looked at by Georgia Tech as feedstock to create bioplastic and biodegradable food packaging. Check out their progress and outcomes and how they are developing a performance advantaged bioproduct.

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Technology for Space Exploration: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Space Biotech

Technology for Space Exploration: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Space Biotech

July 14, 2021 |

To space, what will we take? In space, what will we make? What are the technologies under development to create fuels, foods, materials, health, protection and new science in space, and for space exploration? With no fossil fuels on Mars, it’s a biobased opportunity covering the entire range as well as circular technologies that use […]

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Thoughts by Russ: Building a Future We Want

Thoughts by Russ: Building a Future We Want

July 13, 2021 |

By Russ Freeman, PE Retired Special to The Digest One must wonder what a future Circular Economy might hold and whether we really want one? Since a tipping point seems to have passed in the swing toward such an economy, we need to rather urgently consider how to proceed. Real change means, rather than fixing […]

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On the Move – Greenlane Renewables, Circa Group, USGC’s Global Ethanol Market Development, Eco Wave Power, BASF and more

On the Move – Greenlane Renewables, Circa Group, USGC’s Global Ethanol Market Development, Eco Wave Power, BASF and more

July 13, 2021 |

In a rare occurrence in the biobased economy, we saw more women on the move than men so far this summer. From Greenlane Renewables new Lead Director, Circa Group’s new CFO, U.S. Grains Council’s new Manager of Global Ethanol Market Development, and others, women took the lead over the past month or so with movements, […]

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Using Cycloalkanes for Jet Fuel: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Ethanol-Derived Jet Blending Components

Using Cycloalkanes for Jet Fuel: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Ethanol-Derived Jet Blending Components

July 13, 2021 |

LanzaTech, Purdue and PNNL are working together to develop a commercially viable process to convert an ethanol-derived olefin intermediate into a jet-range hydrocarbon with 60 wt.% yield to cycloalkanes and demonstrate its commercial utility as a jet blendstock via fuel property analysis, ASTM characterization, and techno-economic and life cycle analyses.

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