The DOE’s goals are >54% upgradable products from Lignin by 2030, including an emphasis on Deconstruction and depolymerization, conversion of lignin oils to liquid fuels, opportunities for lignin to SAF, and valorization of lignin-derived monomers to high value products Biological Lignin Valorization. BETO technology managers Beau Hoffman and Lisa Guay presented these slides at DOE’s […]
High-value chemicals and materials have the clearest near-term path to market; accordingly, the program is encouraged to increase its focus on ancillary technologies for producing high-value chemicals alongside core technologies that focus on producing high-volume fuels. Yet, catalyst stability remains problematic across the entire portfolio, and challenges presented by deactivation are likely to increase as […]
The Agile BioFoundry is a consortium of seven U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories that operate as a distributed biofoundry in collaboration with industry and academia. They partner with the biomanufacturing industry to accelerate bioproduct development. Advancing biomanufacturing across the public and private sectors. Here, BETO Conversion Technology Manager Gayle Bentley gave this overview […]
You may recall, about the time the Digest was founded back in 2007, a multi-national product scandal that erupted when it turned out that a shipment of colorful set of children’s’ design beads, called Bindeez, was improperly made from 1,4 butanediol instead of the non-toxic plasticizer known as 1,5 pentanediol. Sounds like a harmless swap? […]
The REenergize webcast series returned to the airwaves again this past week and first presenter was ABLC veteran and DMC Bio’s CEO and co-founder, Matt Lipscomb, with this cogent and comprehensive update on efficiently developing and deploying fermentation process. Here we learned about sustainably produced bio-based chemicals that are Made to Scale, as the DMC […]
This past spring on the ABLC stage, a parade of senior US government officials — led by Arati Prabhakar, Science Advisor to the President, and including representatives from USDA, DOE, Defense, Commerce, the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation — unveiled the Biden Administration’s Bold Goals for the deployment of the bioeconomy […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). If we seek to make the carbon we need from the carbon we have, what do we have? […]
GIC is launching a series of ag emission reduction futures contracts. The first targeted contract is CPC (commodity plus carbon) corn contracts. Subsequent roll-outs include a CPC ethanol futures contract. Why? CPC grain contracts provide a way for biofuel producers to quantify and ensure the purchase of climate-friendly grain to earn tax credits and Scope […]
To understand today’s SAF and Renewable Diesel markets, techs and projects, we turned to our long-time DIgest commentator and sector guru Will Thumond to help us sort out how the irresistible object of sustainable demand meets the immovable force of supply-chain constraints and business as usual thinking. What is going to happen — where, when, […]
From Illinois comes news that Syngenta Seeds and Sustainable Oils have inked a deal to sell Camelina seed – an ultra-low carbon oilseed crop that can be used as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable fuels, and an ingredient for sustainable animal feed. The Structure Camelina seed will be sold through Syngenta’s AgriPro® dealer […]
