Tag: BETO

Agile BioFoundry and ABPDU scale up ethanol intro consumer products with Industrial Microbes

Agile BioFoundry and ABPDU scale up ethanol intro consumer products with Industrial Microbes

October 8, 2024 |

In Washington, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) Agile BioFoundry (ABF) and Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU), have successfully scaled up a bio-based process that converts ethanol into a valuable precursor for consumer products, such as paints, coatings, and diapers. The researchers worked with industry partner, Industrial Microbes, to develop […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Repurposing Plastics Using Novel Engineered Processes 

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Repurposing Plastics Using Novel Engineered Processes 

September 27, 2024 |

The Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment (BOTTLE) consortium is developing new chemical upcycling strategies for today’s plastics and redesigning tomorrow’s plastics to be recyclable-by-design. BOTTLE conducts high-impact research and development to deliver scalable technologies that enable cost-effective recycling, upcycling, and increased energy efficiency for plastics. Under the BOTTLE research […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Process and Integration Scale Up

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Process and Integration Scale Up

August 16, 2024 |

How robust are the biocatalysts in industrially relevant setups and at scale? How feasible are the bioprocesses at scale? How can we improve the performance of the biocatalysts while developing bioprocesses? To answer these questions, researchers launched a Process and Integration Scale Up Task to conduct bioreactor cultivations for ABF Target-Host pairs across scales, integrate […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to adsorption-based in-situ product recovery

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to adsorption-based in-situ product recovery

August 9, 2024 |

Multiple bioproducts of interest to projects require separations innovations. A team of researchers set a goal to recover acid products using anion exchange and simulated moving bed chromatography, and to develop an ISPR system for the recovery of bio-derived products using a suite of commercial and designer resins. Also to develop continuous simulated moving bed […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE Billion Ton Report

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE Billion Ton Report

April 26, 2024 |

The US Department of Energy’s Billion-Ton Report: Assessment of US renewable carbon resources aims to inform research, development, and deployment strategies. The fourth in a DOE series, the report updates on the latest economic conditions, offers better clarity in terms of additional production potential vs current production, looks at level of resource utilization, production potential […]

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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $18.8m to advance mixed algae development for biofuels and bioproducts

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $18.8m to advance mixed algae development for biofuels and bioproducts

April 11, 2024 |

In Washington DC, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the MACRO: Mixed Algae Conversion Research Opportunity funding opportunity announcement (FOA).  The FOA will award up to $18.8 million to address research and development challenges in converting algae, such as seaweeds and other […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Preprocessing

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Preprocessing

March 17, 2024 |

A team of researchers is working to develop science-based design and operation principles informed by TEA/LCA that result in predictable, reliable, and scalable performance of preprocessing unit operations. The comminution and fractionation manuals that industry needs will contain design principles for various working envelopes of CMAs and critical process parameters (CPPs) for corn stover, forest […]

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Ginkgo Bioworks leads team awarded BETO funding for algal crop protection

Ginkgo Bioworks leads team awarded BETO funding for algal crop protection

December 19, 2023 |

In Massachusetts, Ginkgo Bioworks announced that a Ginkgo-led team — including partners from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines, and Global Algae Innovations — has been awarded funding through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). The scope of the project will be to develop a new approach to […]

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