Mark Penshorn, Lead Chemical Engineer at ICF, shared this short but sweet slide guide at ABLC this year on how we can figure out where hydrogen will actually be adopted. He also presentedICF’s hydrogen production cost analysis – from current day pricing to what it might be in 2050.
Welcome news from California arrived, Fulcrum BioEnergy has completed commissioning of its waste-to-syngas phase and initial operations have started at its Sierra BioFuels Plant. The Sierra Biorefinery is processing prepared waste feedstock and producing hydrocarbon synthetic gas, or syngas, ready for conventional Fischer-Tropsch fuel production that will take place on site. Combined with Fulcrum’s operations […]
Idaho National Lab’s very own Bioenergy Program Lead, Lynn Wendt, shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC on how they are working on mitigating risk from beginning to end with biomass feedstocks, how to respond to variability in biomass, their work with reconfigurable fractional milling loops, new spectroscopic analysis tools, torrefaction, and more.
Doug Durante, Executive Director Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest The decision by the Biden Administration last month to lift the restriction on E15 during the summer months was by all accounts a public relations disaster. How could what should have been presented to the public as a positive, health and money-in-your-pocket development […]
If you missed Jennifer Holmgren’s illuminating presentation at ABLC this year, here’s your chance to see what she shared with the world on LanzaTech’s latest work, once again breaking barriers. Here’s the latest on their 2 commercial operating plants, 7 plants scheduled to complete construciton in 2022 and 7 additional plants in engineering, and all […]
The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research builds public-private partnerships and funds pioneering research focusing on key challenge areas like next generation crops, soil health, advanced animal systems, sustainable water management, and more. Find out who is involved, what programs are used to invest in the scientific workforce, their latest work with biochar, and more.
In California, Judge Evelio Grillo of the Superior Court of Alameda County has unsealed a Propel Fuels-Phillips 66 lawsuit, ordered that Propel Fuels file an unredacted copy of the suit. According to Propel, the suit alleges hat “the Texas-based oil company misappropriated Propel’s trade secrets and engaged in unlawful business practices in violation of California’s Uniform […]
The war in Ukraine affects important agricultural markets and restrictions on legal requirements for the production of biodiesel and bioethanol lead to an increase in imports of protein animal feeds and thus to an increase in land requirements in the exporting countries, according to UFOP. Get all their latest on how without biofuels, the main […]
Josh Kittelson, PhD, former Bolt Threads VP, joins New Culture as VP of Biology In California, Bay Area-based New Culture hired Josh Kittleson, PhD, as the company’s VP of Biology. New Culture is leading the global movement to an animal-free dairy future, offering animal-free dairy products that are indistinguishable from conventional products in taste, texture, […]
The Digest just covered big news from Brazil-based Raízen on their $395 million investment into two new cellulosic ethanol plants that will utilize sugarcane bagasse (wastes from sugarcane sweetener processing), and here is their latest short and sweet earnings presentation highlighting their new records, bioenergy parks productivity, ethanol and bioenergy commercialization latest, and more.
