Category: Multi-Slide Guides

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Feeding into High Pressure Reactors Made Easy by Jen-Zero

May 8, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation features Dr. Jayant Khambekar from Jenike & Johanson. It highlights challenges feeding waste feedstocks into high-pressure reactors for thermochemical conversion, citing issues like arching and pressure blow-back with existing technology. The presentation introduces Jen-Zero, a patent-pending system for reliable, continuous feeding without requiring extensive pre-treatment, overcoming common flow problems.

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Establishing Biofuel Pathways for the Ocean-going and Inland Marine Sectors

May 7, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation features Mike Kass from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It addresses decarbonizing marine shipping to meet IMO GHG reduction targets. Highlights include research by a 4-lab partnership assessing bio-intermediate potential via TEA and LCA, showing promise. Low carbon fuel testing with biofuels (neat and blends), including HTL bio-crude and fast pyrolysis bio-oil, is underway […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Raw Materials & Chemicals

May 6, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation features Lauren Junker from BASF. The presentation details BASF’s journey to net zero by 2050 and shaping a circular economy. Key highlights include the focus on biobased carbon sources like starch, sucrose, oil crops, and various residues. It explores transformation pathways from biomass to chemicals, acknowledging the energy challenges compared to fossil sources […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Policies and Practices for Climate Smart Agriculture

May 5, 2025 | Jim Lane

This presentation features Gregory Jaffe of Jaffe Policy Consulting. Highlights include details on the USDA Climate Smart Agriculture Interim Rule, covering biofuel feedstock crops, carbon intensity, and supply chain standards. It outlines covered crops like field corn, soybean, and sorghum, and practices like no-till and cover crops. Possible future additions and the Partnership for Climate […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Integrated Waste-to-Fuel and Wastewater Treatment

May 2, 2025 | Jim Lane

Discover the synergistic thermo-microbial-electrochemical (T-MEC) approach for converting food waste to jet fuel blendstocks while treating HTL wastewater. This integrated system aims to improve carbon yield and reduce waste processing costs compared to anaerobic digestion. Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) recover hydrogen and treat wastewater, potentially providing hydrogen for biocrude upgrading. The optimized HTL/MEC process shows […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Wet Wastes

May 1, 2025 | Jim Lane

Understand the potential of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) to produce significant volumes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from wet wastes. HTL offers a continuous process with high carbon yields. Research focuses on addressing key challenges like nitrogen content through hydrodenitrogenation to meet stringent fuel specifications. This pathway offers a solution for both low-GHG fuels and sludge […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Gasification for Renewable Natural Gas

April 30, 2025 | Jim Lane

Learn about sorption-enhanced chemical looping gasification (SE-CLG) for efficient renewable natural gas production from biomass wastes. This intensified process integrates air separation, CO2 capture, and syngas conditioning in a single step. Developed phase transition sorbents (PTSs) enable isothermal operation and produce hydrogen-rich syngas suitable for methanation. Preliminary analysis suggests significant reductions in LCOE compared to […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas Upgrading to Renewable Natural Gas

April 29, 2025 | Jim Lane

Explore biomethanation as a cost-effective method to upgrade biogas to pipeline quality renewable natural gas (RNG). This process uses naturally occurring organisms and hydrogen to convert CO2 in biogas to methane, potentially increasing production by 60-70%. NREL’s mobile RD&D platform aims to advance this technology for decarbonizing transportation and enabling long-duration energy storage. LCA shows […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Low-Energy Wastewater Treatment

April 28, 2025 | Jim Lane

Discover the M-BREWW project’s innovative approach to transform wastewater treatment from an energy consumer to a producer. Their system integrates a cloth filter anaerobic membrane bioreactor (CFAnMBR), ammonia ion exchange, and electrolysis to recover energy and produce hydrogen. This eliminates significant aeration energy and increases net energy yield. A pilot-scale system in Urbana, IL, demonstrates […]

The Digest’s March 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Haffner Energy

April 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

This ABLC presentation deck highlights Haffner’s Hypergas technology for clean fuels and decarbonization solutions from residual biomass, backed by 31 years of experience. Presented by Nathalie Ionesco, Haffner Energy Inc COO, the guide details their proprietary biomass thermolysis producing syngas, biochar, and biogenic CO2, which can be converted to SAF and other clean fuels. The […]

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