Category: Multi-Slide Guides

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Low Lifecycle Carbon Fuel Combustion Models

September 1, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project develops predictive combustion and emission models for low lifecycle carbon fuels (LLCFs) across hard-to-decarbonize sectors. Key advancements include improved kinetic models for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) components like cyclohexane and methylcyclohexane, and a novel Jet-A surrogate. The team also enhanced the Zero-RK software for faster chemical kinetics solutions and released GPS-Z for efficient […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas Systems Developments and Flexibility

August 31, 2025 | Jim Lane

Biogas systems are proven, customizable net-zero technologies, feeding biomethane into existing gas infrastructure and treating diverse wet organic wastes. They offer high operational flexibility, integrating electrical and natural gas grids, and are generally cheaper than green hydrogen. Achieving flexibility involves increased CHP/gas storage capacity and production control, incurring higher costs balanced by benefits. Crucially, renewable […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Gas Production Targets and Challenges

August 28, 2025 | Jim Lane

EU directives target 35 bcm renewable gas by 2030, with the Netherlands aiming for 1.1 bcm Green Gas, 0.55 bcm via gasification. This necessitates building approximately 14 (30 MWth) plants in NL and 175 across Europe by 2030. Implementation faces challenges like higher costs, insufficient long-term subsidies, and diverging policies favoring manure digestion. Future integration […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioenergy Integration in Renewable Energy Systems

August 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

Integrating bioenergy is essential for flexible renewable energy systems, addressing increasing demands for short- and long-term flexibility, electrification support, and carbon management. Flexible bioenergy helps resolve intraday and seasonal electricity mismatches by producing storable fuels like methane or LNG. It also valorizes hydrogen, supports defossilization by creating fuels and chemicals, and enables negative emissions via […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Understanding Uncertainty in Biofuel ILUC

August 26, 2025 | Jim Lane

IIASA’s GLOBIOM model simulates global land-use change across agriculture, bioenergy, and forestry to understand market-mediated responses. Research analyzed uncertainty in Induced Land-Use Change (ILUC) emissions from increased US soy-biodiesel demand using One-at-a-time and Monte Carlo simulations. Results show ILUC estimates are highly sensitive to economic and biophysical parameters, with oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Land Use for Bioenergy: Synergies and Trade-offs

August 25, 2025 | Jim Lane

Bioenergy is crucial for GHG reduction but raises sustainability concerns, particularly with dedicated energy crops. Research identified 427 observations of synergies, trade-offs, or no effect, with context-specific factors like previous land use and feedstock influencing outcomes. Most synergies occur with perennial crops on marginal land, while trade-offs arise from using natural areas. Maximizing sustainability requires […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioenergy’s Essential Role in Energy Transition

August 23, 2025 | Jim Lane

Bioenergy is crucial for net-zero, projected to comprise nearly 20% of total energy by 2050. Its innovative role includes decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors like aviation and shipping, with usage doubling in industry and tripling in electricity generation. Key newsworthy aspects are its potential for negative emissions via BECCS and the IEA’s emphasis on developing a common […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to New Zealand’s Bioenergy Policy Dynamics

August 21, 2025 | Jim Lane

New Zealand, despite a “policy-lite” government, is experiencing a “perfect storm” for bioenergy due to high carbon prices and global mandates. This has spurred a focus on hard-to-abate sectors like aviation and marine, with newsworthy initiatives including testing imported Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) supply chains and exploring domestic SAF production. This proactive, market-driven response, influenced […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Policy for a Circular Bioeconomy

August 20, 2025 | Jim Lane

Policies are critical for deploying sustainable bioenergy effectively within a circular bioeconomy, a newsworthy concept combining regulatory and promotional elements across sectors. The core innovation lies in smartly integrating biomass with wind and solar, using biomass more circularly to yield “more with the same”. Bioenergy from by-products and waste is presented as a key enabler […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to International Bioeconomy Coordination

August 19, 2025 | Jim Lane

The Biofuture Platform, a multi-stakeholder initiative, pioneers international coordination for a sustainable bioeconomy. Its innovative focus is evidence-based analysis, including a Global Biomass Resource Assessment and common criteria for sustainable fuels. Newsworthy outcomes include G20 consensus on harmonizing GHG emission assessment methodologies and transparent lifecycle carbon accounting standards. The initiative advocates for performance-based, technology-neutral, and […]

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