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Less Than Zero: Camelina Co., Praj, LanzaTech, Northwestern, GCH, Yale, NREL launch new centers of excellence to advance feedstocks, cell‐free systems, genome engineering for carbon-negative manufacturing

Less Than Zero: Camelina Co., Praj, LanzaTech, Northwestern, GCH, Yale, NREL launch new centers of excellence to advance feedstocks, cell‐free systems, genome engineering for carbon-negative manufacturing

October 6, 2022 |

When in doubt, start a Center. That’s been an academic formula for a long time, but there are good reasons for doubt in the presence of so much biological innovation. How to best optimize feedstocks, how to best design biomanufacturing, how to select the best molecules to make. The world is hurtling towards Net Zero, […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Herbaceous Energy Crop Production in the Southeast United States

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Herbaceous Energy Crop Production in the Southeast United States

October 5, 2022 |

Cellulosic bioenergy crop production is a nascent industry in the U.S. and has the potential to supply up to 5% of U.S. energy demand while achieving increased carbon reduction. The Southeast U.S. is ideally suited for a cellulosic industry due to plentiful land, ample rainfall, and a pressing need for agricultural diversification. The goal of […]

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Raven Tales: Raven SR, EFT launch new pathway to SAF, renewable diesel from waste biomass

Raven Tales: Raven SR, EFT launch new pathway to SAF, renewable diesel from waste biomass

October 5, 2022 |

From the wilds of southwestern Wyoming and Oklahoma comes welcome news. As we reported last week, Raven SR and Emerging Fuels Technology signed a landmark MOU to integrate their respective technologies into an advanced system for producing sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. Let’s look at it in more detail today. The platform combines Raven […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Next-Gen feedstocks for the emerging bioeconomy

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Next-Gen feedstocks for the emerging bioeconomy

October 4, 2022 |

The goal of this project is to develop productive, cost-effective and sustainable warm-season perennial bioenergy feedstock production systems on marginal croplands across geographic locations in the Midwest. The University of Illinois (at Champaign-Urbana)’s D. K. Lee leads the team of researchers.

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SAF heads into the Big East: India and Turkey to scale up domestic SAF production amid proliferating deployment of bio-based fuels worldwide

SAF heads into the Big East: India and Turkey to scale up domestic SAF production amid proliferating deployment of bio-based fuels worldwide

October 4, 2022 |

By Vinayak Shinde, Global Market Insights Special to The Digest Endorsing the importance of sustainable airlines in achieving net-zero emission goals, the global aviation fuel market is gradually moving from low-carbon to carbon-negative infrastructure. According to a study by Transport and Environment, a European network of NGOs, about 193 out of 230 of some largest global businesses […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Improved Advanced Biomass Logistics Utilizing Woody Feedstocks

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Improved Advanced Biomass Logistics Utilizing Woody Feedstocks

October 3, 2022 |

Harvesting and transportation makes up 40 –60% of the delivered cost of SRWC and are an important source of GHG emissions. Harvesting systems are not well developed — throughput decreases up to 65% from harvester to short term storage. Changes in biomass quality and impacts of pretreatment techniques are not well understood. And most of […]

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Goodbye To All That (Palm): Kao joins, Unilever, Geno in post-palm oil development

Goodbye To All That (Palm): Kao joins, Unilever, Geno in post-palm oil development

October 3, 2022 |

News arrives from California that global consumer products giant Kao has joined a venture to scale and commercialize plant-based alternatives to palm kernel oil, alongside Genomatica and Unilever. The company’s exact investment was undisclosed — the initial announce was the $120M Unilever and Genomatica announce —we understand that Kao’s invest is additive to that amount. […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Next Generation Logistics Systems for Delivering Optimal Biomass Feedstocks

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Next Generation Logistics Systems for Delivering Optimal Biomass Feedstocks

September 29, 2022 |

This continuing Project with DOE BETO regarding improved logistics builds on advances in two previous High Tonnage projects (Pine at AU; Switchgrass at Genera). The project goal is to evaluate a state-of-the-art biomass merchandizing and processing system to identify sources of variation along the supply chain of multiple, high-impact biomass sources, and to develop practices […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Opal Fuels

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Opal Fuels

September 29, 2022 |

Opal is an end-to-end RNG provider to the transportation market, currently at Scale, with substantial embedded growth opportunity. The company has 5 operating RNG & 19 renewable power plants, operates 75 stations across 18 states, has 7 projects under construction, and 15 projects in development. CEO Adam Comora recently shared this company overview with investors and stakeholders.

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The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Much More Modest Challenge Roadmap

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Much More Modest Challenge Roadmap

September 29, 2022 |

As the authors of an impressive 126-page study on a Sustainable Aviation Fuels Roadmap that leads the Digest coverage today note in their opening remarks: “The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of […]

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