If you’ve been around the renewable fuels movement, lately the renewable fuels industry, for any length of time, you’ve seen quite a few advocates and champions debunking what they contend are untrue urban legends. Indirect Land Use Change, ethanol’s return on energy invested, claims of engine damage from use of renewables, the list is long […]
News has arrived from North Carolina that Honeywell UOP is deploying a new ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology that allows producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel. Depending on the type of ethanol feedstock used, jet fuel produced from Honeywell’s ethanol-to-jet fuel process can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% […]
We’ve long admired NEXT Renewable Fuels, developing one of the largest renewable diesel and plants in the nation, at Port Westward, near Clastskanie, on the Columbia River west of Portland. The Energizer Bunny could take lessons from these guys. They just keep beating the bioeconomy project development drum, no matter what. Last month, they broke […]
When in doubt, start a Center. That’s been an academic formula for a long time, but there are good reasons for doubt in the presence of so much biological innovation. How to best optimize feedstocks, how to best design biomanufacturing, how to select the best molecules to make. The world is hurtling towards Net Zero, […]
From the wilds of southwestern Wyoming and Oklahoma comes welcome news. As we reported last week, Raven SR and Emerging Fuels Technology signed a landmark MOU to integrate their respective technologies into an advanced system for producing sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. Let’s look at it in more detail today. The platform combines Raven […]
News arrives from California that global consumer products giant Kao has joined a venture to scale and commercialize plant-based alternatives to palm kernel oil, alongside Genomatica and Unilever. The company’s exact investment was undisclosed — the initial announce was the $120M Unilever and Genomatica announce —we understand that Kao’s invest is additive to that amount. […]
As the authors of an impressive 126-page study on a Sustainable Aviation Fuels Roadmap that leads the Digest coverage today note in their opening remarks: “The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of […]
The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of domestic sustainable aviation fuel production that achieve a minimum of a 50% reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) compared to conventional fuel […]
From the Netherlands comes news that the Sorting for Circularity Europe project has released its report after 16 months in their conclave. The white smoke has emerged from the chimney, habemus papam, and the news is that 74% of low-value, post-consumer textiles is readily available for fibre-to-fibre recycling in six European countries. That’s a total […]
From MetGen in Finland comes not one story but three, a hat-trick. First, a commercial license for biorefineries with Futurity in New Zealand; second, a partnership with Ivy Farms to develop an industrial process for bioactive molecules they use in their cultivated meat technology; third, a partnership with Technip Energies for the industrialization of MetGen’s […]
