SDI directly supports BETO’s strategic goal to decarbonize the transportation sector through R,D, &D to produce cost-effective, sustainable aviation and other strategic fuels – By 2030, SDI aims to support scale-up of multiple biofuel production pathways with a focus on sustainable aviation fuels capable of >70% GHG reduction by enabling the construction and operation of […]
The DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office seeks in its separations strategy to support scale-up of sustainable aviation fuels and other biofuels with >70% reduction in GHG emissions relative to petroleum; enable commercial production of 10+ renewable chemicals and materials with >70% GHG reduction relative to relevant petroleum-derived counterparts; and, enable 1+ cost-effective and recyclable bio-based plastic […]
Food waste, sewage sludge, animal manure, fats, oils & greases. Odious materials, often available in large quantities, and certainly not in most cases in high demand, and as much as 458 pounds per person per year in total feedstock availability. BETO has developed a multi-pronged strategy to anage these economic, environmental and social liabilities; convert […]
The DOE’s Feedstock Technologies program focuses on challenges and barriers crucial to reaching program goals, including: Feedstock Availability and Cost Production; Feedstock Genetics and Variety Improvement; Sustainable Harvesting; Feedstock Quality; Biomass Storage Systems; Biomass Physical State Alteration; Material Handling and Transportation; Feedstock Supply System; Integration & Infrastructure; and Operational Reliability. BETO technology managers Liz Burrows […]
The Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium is led by DOE as a collaborative effort among researchers from 9 National Labs. The key ideas? 1. Biomass feedstock properties are variable and different from other Commodities. 2. Empirical approaches to address these issues have been unsuccessful. The FCIC is developing first principles-based knowledge and tools to understand and mitigate the […]
Digest CONNECT returned to the airwaves again this past week and first presenter was ABLC veteran and Ecostrat CEO Jordan Solomon, as well as Trae Miller, executive director, Logan County Economic Development. Together, they explored the exciting news that Logan County has earned an A feedstock rating for wheat straw via the Bioeconomy Opportunity Development […]
The DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office seeks to decarbonize the U.S. economy by developing efficient and economical biological and chemical technologies to convert renewable carbon resources into bioenergy and renewable chemicals and materials. Good news? CO2 represents an abundant resource with potential for very low carbon footprint. The Bad news? There’s no energy, to work with […]
The DOE’s goals are >54% upgradable products from Lignin by 2030, including an emphasis on Deconstruction and depolymerization, conversion of lignin oils to liquid fuels, opportunities for lignin to SAF, and valorization of lignin-derived monomers to high value products Biological Lignin Valorization. BETO technology managers Beau Hoffman and Lisa Guay presented these slides at DOE’s […]
High-value chemicals and materials have the clearest near-term path to market; accordingly, the program is encouraged to increase its focus on ancillary technologies for producing high-value chemicals alongside core technologies that focus on producing high-volume fuels. Yet, catalyst stability remains problematic across the entire portfolio, and challenges presented by deactivation are likely to increase as […]
The Agile BioFoundry is a consortium of seven U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories that operate as a distributed biofoundry in collaboration with industry and academia. They partner with the biomanufacturing industry to accelerate bioproduct development. Advancing biomanufacturing across the public and private sectors. Here, BETO Conversion Technology Manager Gayle Bentley gave this overview […]
