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Emissions, Mileage, New Data: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to EVs vs. ICE

Emissions, Mileage, New Data: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to EVs vs. ICE

April 6, 2021 |

Today, a special look at new hard data on EVs vs IC engines — what the recent Wall Street Journal review missed! It was an exclusive to the DigestConnect last week but here’s your chance to see the full slides on emissions, fuels, octane, mileage, performance, and results that will surprise you.

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Shell invests in LanzaJet, accelerating ATJ sustainable jet fuel as it hurtles towards commercial deployment

Shell invests in LanzaJet, accelerating ATJ sustainable jet fuel as it hurtles towards commercial deployment

April 6, 2021 |

From Illinois, news arrives that Shell has invested in LanzaJet, to scale the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Shell joins founding investors LanzaTech, Suncor Energy Inc., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and in recent months British Airways joined as an investor and  LJ has a n extensive collaboration in place also with All Nippon Airways. There […]

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The Extraordinary ReMaking of Ordinary Things, Part 2: Delta CleanTech aims for CO2 capture in service of oil & gas

The Extraordinary ReMaking of Ordinary Things, Part 2: Delta CleanTech aims for CO2 capture in service of oil & gas

April 5, 2021 |

Today, in part 2 of our series The Extraordinary remaking of Ordinary Things, let’s begin with a bit of news overlooked by the major news outlets last week, that Alberta-based Delta CleanTech acquired the CO2 capture and solvent reclaiming division and operating assets of HTC Extraction Systems and has focused its mission on CO2 capture […]

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Algae Oil, Lignin, Plastics, Waste: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Conventional Fuels from Unconventional Sources

Algae Oil, Lignin, Plastics, Waste: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Conventional Fuels from Unconventional Sources

April 5, 2021 |

Southwest Research Institute’s Eloy Flores, Assistant Director R&D in Chemical Engineering, shared this illuminating slide guide on SwRI’s work with alternative fuels technology and all steps from idea/concept, engine testing to pilot plant, scale up and transformation to the commercial plant.

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FDCA, PEF, PlantMEG, Sugars, Lignin: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium

FDCA, PEF, PlantMEG, Sugars, Lignin: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium

April 4, 2021 |

Avantium believes in a fossil-free world, and while the Covid-19 crisis threw them, like so many around the globe, for a loop, they remained focused on continuing progress towards a circular economy. Here are highlights from Avantium’s 2020 Annual Report, renewable polymers and YXY tech for FDCA and PEF, renewable chemistries and RAY, Dawn and […]

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A Better Way to Recycle CFRP: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Mild Chemical Recycling of Thermoset Composites

A Better Way to Recycle CFRP: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Mild Chemical Recycling of Thermoset Composites

April 1, 2021 |

From current carbon fiber recycling methods to the way of the future – mild chemical recycling – this slide guide from Washington State University researchers is one you won’t want to miss. Their latest research on chemical treatment under mild conditions of epoxy composites dives into how it works, the promising results so far, and […]

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Renewable Diesel: Where’s The Value?

Renewable Diesel: Where’s The Value?

March 31, 2021 |

By Steve Roberts and Michael Reecher from Opportune LLP’s Process & Technology practice Special to The Digest If companies want to capture value and ultimately profit from the projected growth in renewable diesel, they must understand their netback. The demand and price for renewable diesel is on the rise and bringing familiar and new market […]

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Battle Between Biochar & Activated Carbon: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biochar

Battle Between Biochar & Activated Carbon: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biochar

March 31, 2021 |

The same yet different. That’s biochar and activated carbon – both are carbon-based porous material and are the active agent in a separation process, but they also have significant differences. Check out this illuminating slide guide from William Naylor at Lee Enterprises Consulting on the advantages and applications for biochar, suggestions for biochar producers, and […]

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The Extraordinary Re-Making of Ordinary Things: Part 1 Reinventing Ethanol as Ethyl Acetate

The Extraordinary Re-Making of Ordinary Things: Part 1 Reinventing Ethanol as Ethyl Acetate

March 30, 2021 |

In Texas and Nebraska, there have been a flurry of press releases from Viridis Chemical and its partners – most recently, today news arrives that Viridis Chemical inked a price, performance-guaranteed agreement with Koch Project Solutions to design and construct capital improvements to increase production capacity at its renewable chemicals plant in Columbus, Nebraska. Upon […]

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Non-Renewable Carbon User Fee: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to the Disappearing Gas Tax

Non-Renewable Carbon User Fee: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to the Disappearing Gas Tax

March 30, 2021 |

Like magic, it’s the ‘disappearing’ gasoline tax on just the non-renewable portion of transportation fuel. Bob Kozak of Atlantic Biomass Conversions looks at how this can fund a renaissance in new technology for bio-based fuels, how the disappearing fee uses can reduce biomass input costs, reduce biofuel production costs, and more.

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