Category: Multi-Slide Guides

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Market-Based Tools to Unleash American Biofuels

June 19, 2025 | Jim Lane

Ecostrat introduces BDO Zone Ratings to certify regional readiness for biomanufacturing. A novel initiative is the “B-RREADI for Wildfire Challenge,” which leverages ‘W-BDO Zones’ to attract biomanufacturing plants. This creates market demand for removing combustible forest biomass, offering an economic incentive to reduce wildfire risk. Ecostrat also offers Feedstock Supply Insurance (FSI)® to de-risk biomass […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Power to Liquids: Money from Thin Air

June 18, 2025 | Jim Lane

NexantECA identifies Power-to-Liquids (PTL) and CO2 utilization as increasingly vital due to projected shortfalls in meeting 2050 emission targets with current technologies. PTL, utilizing CO2 as a feedstock, typically requires dedicated low-carbon intensity power. The presentation explores various CO2 capture options, including “Blue” CCS, BECCS, and Direct Air Capture (DAC), detailing their respective costs and […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to RNG to SAF

June 17, 2025 | Jim Lane

Topsoe, a leader in energy transition, highlights their G2L™ Biofuels technology, a novel and commercially ready pathway converting Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Leveraging industrially proven Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis, this solution achieves high carbon efficiency (~95%) and impressive SAF product yields (>80%). Topsoe emphasizes its role in leading hard-to-abate sectors toward […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to BioVeritas

June 16, 2025 | Jim Lane

BioVeritas champions an “Unconstrained” approach to Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), addressing the current limitations of HEFA feedstocks. Their novel strategy involves Directed Mixed-Culture Fermentation and Low-Energy Acid Recovery to produce Volatile Fatty Acids (VFAs), which are then converted into SAF blendstock or intermediates. This dual market strategy aims to overcome supply constraints, positioning BioVeritas as […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet

June 14, 2025 | Jim Lane

Jimmy Samartzis of LanzaJet spoke on building the new SAF industry. He highlighted the LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels (FPF) plant, their First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) facility. Mechanical completion occurred in May 2024, grand opening in August 2024. Despite hurricane impacts, startup is underway. FPF created jobs and economic activity. LanzaJet stressed SAF is a huge opportunity for […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Hyfe

June 12, 2025 | Jim Lane

Michelle Ruiz, Founder & CEO of Hyfe, discussed transforming waste carbon. Hyfe targets high-value food processing waste, including grape pomace. Their tech uses green solvents to fractionate biomass into valuable components (phytochemicals, fibers, lignin, dextrose). This enables profitable facilities at any scale, boosting waste value over 100x. Hyfe has strong IP and a pilot startup […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Sugar Valley Energy

June 11, 2025 | Jim Lane

David Rubenstein, CEO of Sugar Valley Energy (CE+P), detailed their project producing 76 million gallons/year of 11 CI Score fuel ethanol from sugarcane. This converts to 60+ million gallons of SAF and 3+ million gallons of Renewable Diesel. CE+P controls its guaranteed, low-CI feedstock. Located in Imperial County, CA, the project leverages its position and […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to a Resilient US Bioeconomy

June 10, 2025 | Jim Lane

Valerie Reed, Director of the USDOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), discussed building A Resilient US Bioeconomy. She outlined benefits including job creation, strengthening national security via domestic supply chains, supporting ethanol producers, investing in communities, improving health, and achieving carbon reductions. BETO’s RD&D priorities focus on affordability, efficiency, and security for domestic biofuels and biobased […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SAF and Hydrogen Plant Integration

June 9, 2025 | Jim Lane

Linde, a global gas and engineering company, presented on integrating SAF (HEFA) and hydrogen plants to reduce carbon intensity (CI) and cost. Arthur Pastore, Minish Shah, and David Maher highlighted using HEFA by-products for H2 and carbon capture from the H2 plant as key levers. CI reduction improves with by-product use. Tax credits, like 45Z […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SynPet

June 8, 2025 | Jim Lane

SynPet offers a proprietary Thermal Conversion Process (TCP) that uniquely treats complex mixed plastic waste, including PVC, without sorting or drying. This non-combustion technology avoids new CO2 emissions. Products include Circular Naphtha, Renewable Natural Gas, and electricity. SynPet aims to create a circular petrochemical industry by converting waste plastics into Circular Naphtha Substitute. Their process […]

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