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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet

June 6, 2023 |

Lanzajet says we are at an inflection point for the sustainable aviation industry. Why? How? What’s LanzaJet’s role in it all? How are they driving innovation and accelerating deployment of SAF? What’s the status of their plants and projects? LJ’s Alex Menotti gave this illuminating update at ABLC 2023.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the NCGA Corn-to-Chemicals Challenge

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the NCGA Corn-to-Chemicals Challenge

June 5, 2023 |

Here NCGA’s Sarah McKay and friends look at the Consider Corn Open corn-to-chemicals challenge to catalyze innovation and investment in this illuminating slide guide from ABLC 2023. What’s the role of corn and starch in renewable chemicals and materials? Here are the answers.

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E-fuels: Do they work on the numbers?

E-fuels: Do they work on the numbers?

June 5, 2023 |

By Dr. Ashish Gupta, Process Manager, S&B; Muhammad Islam, Vice President, Commercial and Technology, S&B; and Clint Johnson, Vice President, Saber Equity Special to The Digest As the world works towards decarbonization, one sector contributing significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is transportation. To address this issue, the concept of e-fuels has emerged as a […]

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ABLC Next 2023 announced – October 18-20 in San Francisco – Networking like Crazy for Net Zero

ABLC Next 2023 announced – October 18-20 in San Francisco – Networking like Crazy for Net Zero

June 4, 2023 |

In California, the Digest announced that the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Projects & Technologies,  ABLC NEXT 2023, will take place at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, October 18-20, 2023, as the industry undertakes more Networking for Net Zero. More than 600 delegates and 100 speakers are expected from more than 400 companies […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

June 1, 2023 |

In this presentation, Aemetis CEO Eric McAfee took the ABLC 2023 stage in Washington DC to outline the company’s milestones, technology, financial estimates, policy asks, its portfolio of Carbon Zero One projects, and the company’s expansion in RNG, advanced fuels and more. McAfee also picked up the 2023 Bioeconomy Global Leadership Zward at the same […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to advanced biofuels and the Electrification gap

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to advanced biofuels and the Electrification gap

May 31, 2023 |

With action on climate change necessary for the future of our planet and the global economy, U.S. policy makers are encouraging a transition to an electrified transportation fleet. However, millions of personal vehicles are unlikely to be electrified for decades, and aviation, long-distance trucking and marine shipping are difficult to electrify, leaving an “electrification gap.” […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ammonia’s role as a pathway to low-carbon fuels

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ammonia’s role as a pathway to low-carbon fuels

May 30, 2023 |

In this outlook, the pathways to low-carbon ammonia, it’s applications in fuels and chemicals, including as a hydrogen carrier, and the production outlook ahead. Nexant’s Edurard Lindner presented these slides at ABLC 2023.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Axens technologies

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Axens technologies

May 29, 2023 |

Axens offers today the largest portfolio to do so; providing efficient, reliable and flexible technologies to convert biomass into high quality and low-carbon alternative products for the transportation sector as well as the chemical industry.. Axens Americas CTO Olivier Le Coz presented these slides at ABLC 2023.

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Can We Replace All Crude Oil Within 20 Years with Cellulosic Liquid Hydrocarbons?

Can We Replace All Crude Oil Within 20 Years with Cellulosic Liquid Hydrocarbons?

May 29, 2023 |

By Charles Forsberg (cforsber@mit.edu) and Bruce Dale (bdale@egr.msu.edu) Special to The Digest In the United States, crude oil products provide 48% of the total energy to the final customer: residential, commercial, industrial and transportation. Replacement of crude oil products (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, chemical feed stocks, etc.) made from non-fossil-fuel carbon sources, principally products made […]

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When Wrinkles Annoy but Polyester’s a no-no, try HICCUPS

When Wrinkles Annoy but Polyester’s a no-no, try HICCUPS

May 26, 2023 |

We love polyester, the magic molecule, the bane of wrinkled or torn shirts, friend of moisture resistance. We just can’t stand the way it’s made. In some ways, right up there with hot dogs. Why throw out the molecule? Why not make the carbon we love from the carbon we disdain — like carbon dioxide […]

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