Category: 8-Slide Guide

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Variability

October 17, 2023 | Jim Lane

A recent DOE project with the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium analyzed the initial distribution of feedstock critical material attributes (CMAs) and strategies to manage this variability. Understanding key sources of biomass variability (e.g., growth conditions, harvest conditions, storage degradation) to identify and quantify CMA distributions that propagate across unit operations to inform cost-effective management of variability. […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Hydrogen & Derivatives

October 16, 2023 | Jim Lane

This week on the Digest webinar stage, we looked at The Next Chapter for Hydrogen and Derivative; my guests were Muhammed Islam, Clinton Johnson and Blane Vincent, all vice-presidents at S&B. It was, I believe, the strongest webinar and presentation deck I’ve yet seen on hydrogen and its prospects. I urge you to take a […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Electrocatalytic CO2 Utilization

October 13, 2023 | Jim Lane

Low-temperature CO2 electrolysis is a promising pathway to produce low carbon intensity fuels and chemicals, offering advantages in scalability, process efficiency, and intermittent operation. Significant risks must be overcome for CO2 electrolysis to help meet 2050 decarbonization goals A new DOE project aims to work alongside CO2RUe Consortium analysis projects to identify/quantify risks, and performs […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Economics and Sustainability of CO2 Utilization Technologies with TEA and LCA

October 12, 2023 | Jim Lane

A recent DOE project aims to perform techno-economic analysis (TEA), life cycle analysis (LCA), and water analysis of CO2 utilization (CO2U) technologies to address their costs and energy/environmental sustainability implications and to present economic and environmental value proposition of the technologies. Argonne National Lab legend Michael Wang presented these slides at DOE’s Project Peer Review […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to CO2 Utilization Markets, Resources, and Environmental and Energy Justice

October 11, 2023 | Jim Lane

A recent DOE project aims to quantify resource availability and costs for CO2 utilization (CO2U) in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production to inform industry, technology communities, and policymakers on location-specific economic and societal impacts. It will provide insights to guide R&D efforts to achieve BETO’s decarbonization goals, SAF cost and production targets, while meeting DOE’s […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Feasibility of Utilizing Electricity to Produce Intermediates from CO2 and Biomass

October 10, 2023 | Jim Lane

A recent DOE project analyzed promising bolt-on compatible CO2 reduction pathways to fuels or products from standalone biorefineries, (2) Published a comprehensive strategic plan for achieving industrial decarbonization goals via CO2 conversion, with inclusion of outyear technical, cost, and carbon intensity targets, and (3) Performing integrated TEA/LCA Analysis of CO2 conversion. At the DOE Project […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the Eco-Farewell to Bioplastics

October 9, 2023 | Jim Lane

This week on the Digest webinar stage, we looked at The Next Chapter for Bioplastics, our title was the Eco-Friendly Farewell and my guest was Ashvini Shete, Technology Lead – Renewable Chemicals & Materials at Praj Industries, returning to the Digest stage. Bioplastics have taken center stage as the eco-conscious alternative to traditional plastics, offering […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Upgrading of C2 Building Blocks

October 6, 2023 | Jim Lane

A new DOE project aims to develop a novel catalytic upgrading technologies that enable cost-competitive conversion of cellulosic ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel. It aims to develop a commercially viable process within the concept of an integrated biorefinery that lowers fuel production costs and carbon intensity to aid in the transition towards net- zero aviation. […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Visolis

October 5, 2023 | Jim Lane

A recent DOE project aims to support Visolis, a biotech start-up company, to develop hydrogenolysis catalyst that can operate at low-pressures (≤ 5 MPa) and demonstrate conversion of a fermentation-derived C6 intermediate to a high value chemical monomer. The target is accelerated catalyst and process development to convert the bio-derived intermediate to a high value […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Catalytic Upgrading of Pyrolysis Products for SAF

October 4, 2023 | Jim Lane

A recent DOE project aims to Develop a technology pathway to convert woody biomass into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other biogenic products via catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) and hydrotreating. This research opens pathways for SAF production from forest resources and woody wastes, of which there are 133 million dry tons per year. ChemCatBio’s Michael […]

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