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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Velocys and the Bayou Fuels project

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Velocys and the Bayou Fuels project

August 28, 2023 |

The REenergize webcast series returned to the airwaves this past week and first guest was Velocys’ Jeff McDaniel, with this lucid, comprehensive  and concise update on one of the most exciting projects anywhere in the Gulf region: the aptly-hamed Bayou Fuels. Velocys technology is always worth a look — but here we have the project […]

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Letter from Europe: Amazing Opp to get UCO right

Letter from Europe: Amazing Opp to get UCO right

August 27, 2023 |

By James Cogan EU Government Affairs, Industry & Policy Director, ClonBio Special to The Digest In an amazing turn of events, on August 16 the European Commission launched an investigation[1] into possible large scale violations in the used cooking oil, palm oil and biodiesel supply chains from South East Asia to Europe. The amounts are […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DOE’s overview of Renewable Carbon Resources

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DOE’s overview of Renewable Carbon Resources

August 24, 2023 |

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? […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Commodity-plus-Carbon futures

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Commodity-plus-Carbon futures

August 23, 2023 |

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 […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Infinium

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Infinium

August 22, 2023 |

Infinium is a Commercial Scale decarbonization Platform for heavy transport, utilizing existing infrastructure for lower emissions today. Infinium’s production process uses renewable power, waste CO2 and water and, unlike most of today’s SAF and Renewable Diesel, does not compete with food or land resources, allowing for greater potential scale. Infinium’s VP for Business Development, Liz […]

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The Squeeze, Eased: LiDestri, Fermentum take precision fermentation to the next capacity level

The Squeeze, Eased: LiDestri, Fermentum take precision fermentation to the next capacity level

August 21, 2023 |

Back when, we observed in The Digest: “The predictable result of a tsunami of new companies formed and no new manufacturing at scale built? The fermentation Squeeze.” It arrived, and it’s been rough. Good news has arrived from upstate New York that LiDestri Foods and Fermentum, Inc.have revealed a joint venture and a 500,000 liter […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Carbon Capture and eFuels

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Carbon Capture and eFuels

August 21, 2023 |

Here’s the State of Carbon Capture and eFuels presentation from the ABLC CONNECT series episode. Current and expected demand, technologies, supply chain, projects of note, current news, key players — a comprehensive but compact look at the carbon industry and the exciting innovations in electrofuels in this year of transition from development to deployment.

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Vive La Différence: Petroleum-Based Jet Fuel Production & SAF

Vive La Différence: Petroleum-Based Jet Fuel Production & SAF

August 19, 2023 |

By Chuck Sorensen, Ph.D., P.E., Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest Conventional jet fuel is made in oil refineries by a variety of processes that convert crude oil into intermediate streams that boil within the allowable range of jet fuel. These intermediates, called kerosene, are then blended together so that the final product meets […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Vertimass

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Vertimass

August 17, 2023 |

Proprietary Vertimass Technology can lower costs of sustainable fuels for aircraft and light and heavy duty vehicles while providing a new route to renewable chemicals. Rapid development and deployment of novel Vertimass technology for conversion of renewable ethanol into hydrocarbons could open up new markets for ethanol and corn, enhance energy security, and reduce greenhouse […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Kore Infrastructure

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Kore Infrastructure

August 16, 2023 |

Kore boldly describes its carbon negative pyrolysis process as “a paradigm shift, offering businesses an environmentally and economically sustainable way to convert organic waste into renewable energy. This means more incentives to decarbonize, fewer landfills and incinerators, permanent carbon sequestration, and measurable environmental impact in our lifetime.” Kore’s Steve Wirtel presented these slides at ABLC […]

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