Category: 8-Slide Guide

The Full Enchilada: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ChemCatBio and Catalyst, Process, Techno-economics

The Full Enchilada: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ChemCatBio and Catalyst, Process, Techno-economics

October 13, 2018 |

ChemCatBio is a research and development consortium dedicated to identifying and overcoming catalysis challenges for biomass conversion processes. Led by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, we work with industry to rapidly transition R&D discoveries into commercial processes and grow the bioeconomy in the United States. Current research encompasses the following five themes: Upgrading […]

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Catalysis rocking: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ChemCatBio

Catalysis rocking: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ChemCatBio

October 13, 2018 |

ChemCatBio is a research and development consortium dedicated to identifying and overcoming catalysis challenges for biomass conversion processes. Led by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, we work with industry to rapidly transition R&D discoveries into commercial processes and grow the bioeconomy in the United States. Current research encompasses the following five themes: Upgrading […]

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Scaling up biobased BTX: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Anellotech

Scaling up biobased BTX: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Anellotech

October 7, 2018 |

Founded in 2008, Anellotech has developed a clean technology platform for inexpensively producing bio-based chemicals from renewable non-food biomass. These drop-in, green versions of widely used petrochemicals; benzene, toluene and xylenes, are used to make plastics for consumer goods such as beverage bottles and packaging, clothing, carpeting, automotive parts, home and construction materials, electronic products, […]

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Sustainable intensification: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to more biomass for bioenergy without imposing iLUC

Sustainable intensification: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to more biomass for bioenergy without imposing iLUC

October 7, 2018 |

Sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in combination with biorefinery processing can produce more biomass for bioenergy without imposing iLUC. That’s the topic of this illuminating overview from Poul Erik Laerke and Uffe Jørgensen of Aarhus University Foulum, as presented at a recent IEA Bioenergy Task 43 workshop.  

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The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to optimizing lignocellulosic cropping systems

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to optimizing lignocellulosic cropping systems

October 7, 2018 |

How attractive are systems for Bioenergy Feedstock Production in Sustainably Managed Landscapes for Rural Development? Ioannis Dimitriou, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dep. of Crop Production Ecology offered this illuminating overview at a recent IEA Bioenergy Task 43 workshop.

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From Unloved Woods to Desirable bioenergy: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to wood and forest projects

From Unloved Woods to Desirable bioenergy: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to wood and forest projects

October 7, 2018 |

Increasing global demand for energy, a push by governments and industry to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG), and a desire to increase energy independence are driving the demand for renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. As a source of renewable carbon that can be used in the existing energy infrastructure, woody biomass is an attractive feedstock for […]

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Biorefinery Monitoring: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Materials Flows & Assessment

Biorefinery Monitoring: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Materials Flows & Assessment

October 7, 2018 |

Reliable information is an essential foundation for policy decisions. We are therefore working: to provide a solid database of the de facto development, to develop manageable and summarizing balance sheets and indicators, which aggregate multitude data to informative key ratios. Even if only dynamic technological development with new opportunities is considered, which has not been […]

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The Road to Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioenergy production in Croatia

The Road to Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioenergy production in Croatia

September 29, 2018 |

IEA Bioenergy Task 43’s goal is to contribute to sound bioenergy development driven by well-informed decisions in the forestry, agriculture and energy sectors as well as in investment institutions and government agencies.  The group addresses critical issues for deployment of sustainable biomass and bioenergy supply chains, including social, economic and environmental outcomes of feedstock production and supply. […]

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Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the BELT Biorefinery concept

Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the BELT Biorefinery concept

September 29, 2018 |

IEA Bioenergy Task 43’s goal is to contribute to sound bioenergy development driven by well-informed decisions in the forestry, agriculture and energy sectors as well as in investment institutions and government agencies. The group addresses critical issues for deployment of sustainable biomass and bioenergy supply chains, including social, economic and environmental outcomes of feedstock production and supply. […]

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Development, deployment of integrated biorefineries: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Biorefining in Italy

Development, deployment of integrated biorefineries: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Biorefining in Italy

September 29, 2018 |

IEA Bioenergy Task 42’s goal is to contribute to the development and deployment of integrated biorefineries as part of highly efficient sustainable value chains (co-)producing food/feed ingredients, chemicals, materials, fuels, power and/or heat out of sustainably sourced biomass (wood, crops, residues, etc.) as base for a global BioEconomy. Isabella de Bari and Maria Teresa Petrone gave […]

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