Category: 8-Slide Guide

Lignin Unchained, 3D printable: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Engineered Lignin Bioplastics

February 12, 2018 | Jim Lane

The project goal? To produce and commercialize lignin-derived, industrial-grade composites with properties including 3D printability, rivaling current petroleum-derived alternatives. That’s the project undertaken by a team led by Amit K. Naskar, of the Carbon & Composites Group Materials Science & Technology Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The hoped-for project outcome? A novel family […]

Biofuels at sea: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Good Fuels Marine

February 11, 2018 | Jim Lane

Netherlands-based GoodFuels Marine is on the move. We reported last month that VARO Energy subsidiary REINPLUS FIWADO Bunker and GoodFuels Marine will work together to make European inland shipping more sustainable. As a result, the sustainable advanced biofuels from GoodFuels Marine are now also available at the port of Rotterdam, and will be available along […]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Hydrocarbon Cost Curve: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies

February 8, 2018 | Jim Lane

Global Bioenergies is a pioneer in the development of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons, the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry. Since inception, the company focused its efforts on the production of isobutene, one of the most important petrochemical building blocks that can […]

Power-to-liquids: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

February 7, 2018 | Jim Lane

Sunfire’s key technology is the Solid Oxide Power Core – a stack of high-temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs). SOFCs convert chemical energy from a gaseous fuel into electricity and heat. Unlike conventional fuel cells, Sunfire fuel cells can also be operated with different hydrocarbons, such as natural gas, bio gas, liquid petroleum gas (LPG) […]

Advanced, to Go: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to 2G biofuels implementation timetable

February 6, 2018 | Jim Lane

The biggest news out of Novozymes this month is its new yeast platform for starch-based ethanol, while also introducing the first product, Innova Drive. A completely new yeast strain, the product can reduce fermentation time by up to two hours compared to current yeasts. 1G aside, Novozymes is heavily focused on the roll-out of 2G […]

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the Future of the Internal Combustion Engine

February 5, 2018 | Jim Lane

When it comes to the future of the combustion engine, what are the future developments from a scientific viewpoint? That’s the ambitious topic that Gennadi Zikoridse of the University of Applied Sciences Dresden took onin this recent presentation. Combustion engines as carriers of mobility. Their current problems and solution approaches. Future developments and a forecast, you’ll find all […]

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the 10-year OECD-FAO outlook for ag, biofuels

February 2, 2018 | Jim Lane

The latest joint OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook spawned this fascinating 10 year outlook of global biofuel markets and agricultural feedstocks. This model based projection, validated through global expert consensus, includes major Food commodities and biofuels driven by the outlooks on population, GDP, fossil energy prices and policy. The OECD-FAO team prepared this illuminating overlook of the next ten […]

The Slowed Corrode: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Bio-oils and Corrosion

February 1, 2018 | Jim Lane

The presence of significant concentrations of oxygen-bearing compounds, particularly carboxylic acids and other carbonyl-containing compounds, makes biomass derived oils corrosive to many common structural materials. So says everyone. But a research team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory led by Jim Keiser, sponsored by the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office, believes it is possible to identify or […]

New Cat in Town: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Catalyst Synthesis

January 31, 2018 | Jim Lane

Deliver high performing, cost-effective catalytic materials that meet the needs of the ChemCatBio catalysis projects? That’s the ambitious goal of a project led by researchers from Argonne National Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The project aims to leverage advanced characterization capabilities and unique synthesis expertise at multiple DOE laboratories. […]

Building blocks from biocrude: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to biobased methoxyphenols

January 30, 2018 | Jim Lane

To develop and optimize a hybrid separation method to recover high-value methoxyphenols to improve the process economics and environmental impact for the production of advanced biofuels from catalytic pyrolysis, integrated with hydroprocessing. That’s the ambitious R&D goal outlined by a team from RTI International, supported by the US DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office. This project aims […]

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