In the Digest’s Sometimes We Wonder department, we see a glut in US ethanol markets and ethanol production, but we see no effort to dehydrate ethanol to make fuel ethylene. As the final installment in our look this week at Carbon Re-Use, we’ll look at this alternative for ethanol producers. Since ethylene is primarily used […]
The Digest’s recent webinar covered the Fundamentals of BioProcess Scale-Up, but if you missed it, here’s a chance to glance at the slides and get your questions answered. Is it as complex as it seems? What are the typical challenges? Why scale-up? What is scale-up risk? How do you mitigate it? How to prepare? Who […]
Here’s The Digest’s very own condensed look at 9 bioeconomy companies – Amyris, Aemetis, Codexis, Gevo, Green Plains, Neste, Novozymes, Pacific Ethanol and Renewable Energy Group, in their own words and images. From their latest projects, expansions, accomplishments, financials, to their outlook on future plans, strategic objectives, road maps, aspirations, and more.
SpongeBob SquarePants must be pretty darn excited today with Lidl’s announcement that they will soon sell seaweed-based underpants produced by Florida-based Nanonic. But that’s not all – with politics ramped up in the news comes “Trump straws”, airlines checking out your face with biometric identification so you can get onboard more quickly, BASF’s first renewables-based […]
By Michael Newman, Chief Operating Officer, Parhelion Underwriting Inc. Special to The Digest Trading in the climate finance market – the systems designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – sometimes create areas of uncertainty. The risk of invalidation of credits worry market participants – but insurance risk capital can be used to mitigate these concerns […]
Fluid Quip Process Technologies provides integrated custom technologies and services to bridge the GAP for dry-grind ethanol and biochemical facilities which include full plant design, process optimization studies, yield improvement technologies, new co-product technologies, and turnkey EPC capital projects. Jeff Robert, Director of Fluid-Quip Process Technologies gave this illuminating overview of the U.S. sugar supply, […]
Gevo produces and sells low-carbon, renewable, high-performance fuel products. From ethanol to isobutanol, jet fuel, isooctane, oxygenate blendstocks, and more, Gevo is on a mission to replace fossil based products and decarbonize products for large markets. Tim Cesarek, Executive VP and COO of Gevo gave this illuminating overview of Gevo’s crusade to decarbonize fossil fuels, […]
Missed The Digest’s webinar on Biomass Gasification? Wondering what it is or where it’s at? Biomass Gasification is a thermochemical process in which a renewable solid carbonaceous feedstock is reacted with air, oxygen, CO2 and/or steam to produce a gaseous product stream containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide (synthesis gas). So is it ready to meet […]
GoodFuels is seeing a fast rise of low carbon marine fuels as a very logical one. The demand. The supply. The environmental impact. Even the economics. It’s all making sense now. In November, GoodFuels completed trials of the world’s first zero emission, ‘drop in’ Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO)-equivalent marine biofuel – almost entirely reducing all […]
Yes, it’s Carbon Re-Use Week, or, as the carbon atom said to the technology, Waltz Me Once Around Again, Willie. We have one big story from the Wonder from Down Under — Licella, that is — and we may just (wink, wink) have another one for you tomorrow. Licella signed a memorandum of understanding with […]
