This week on ABLC CONNECT, we looked at the State of Advanced Biorefineries, including examples of projects from Gevo, Aemetis, LanzaTech, Grön and Green Plains. The technologies, markets, partners, the rational, the progress to date — all of the inside news on who’s developing what, and where and how are in the the slides ready for you here.
A barrel of strategic equity has landed on the Infinium square of the bioMonopoly board, this one from South Korea, the Land of Morning Calm. SK Innovation (part of the SK group, one of Korea’s most formidable chaebol conglomerates), to step up and send this interesting company right into front row in the race for electrofuels at scale. It has […]
The objective of this project is to harness the power of photosynthetic microalgae to maintain a high-pH, high-alkalinity microalgal culture to create a carbon-negative system for carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion to value-added products from power plant flue gas. Feng Chen of the University of Maryland showed these slides at the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Carbon […]
LCA is a technique that helps people make better decisions to improve and protect the environment by accounting for the potential impacts from raw material acquisition through production, use, end-of-life treatment, recycling, and final disposal (i.e., cradle-to-grave). Michelle Krynock leads a team of researchers at NETL and showed these slides at the National Energy Technology […]
If you’ve been around the renewable fuels movement, lately the renewable fuels industry, for any length of time, you’ve seen quite a few advocates and champions debunking what they contend are untrue urban legends. Indirect Land Use Change, ethanol’s return on energy invested, claims of engine damage from use of renewables, the list is long […]
Whether it is algae oil, protein meal, food ingredients, feed ingredients, fuels or consumer products, this project led by GAI aim to capture CO2 for algae cultivation, harvesting and processing. Dave Hazlebeck of Global Algae Innovations showed these slides at the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Carbon Management Project Review Meeting in August.
News has arrived from North Carolina that Honeywell UOP is deploying a new ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology that allows producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel. Depending on the type of ethanol feedstock used, jet fuel produced from Honeywell’s ethanol-to-jet fuel process can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% […]
This Project aims to develop technologies to increase algae productivity and reduce culturing costs, In addition, it aims to develop algae, refinee processing and verify content for nutraceuticals and to incorporate feed blends. It’s a part of the search for CO2 reduction, and Fred Harrington of Helios-NRG showed these slides at the National Energy Technology […]
We’ve long admired NEXT Renewable Fuels, developing one of the largest renewable diesel and plants in the nation, at Port Westward, near Clastskanie, on the Columbia River west of Portland. The Energizer Bunny could take lessons from these guys. They just keep beating the bioeconomy project development drum, no matter what. Last month, they broke […]
What can you actually make from CO2 that’s valuable, and more permanent? The goal of this project is to develop technology to convert CO2 to valuable products to partially offset carbon capture costs from the utility and industrial sectors. Also, to contribute to the production of a formic acid at a lower cost than is currently […]
