The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Catalytic Upgrading of Biochemical Intermediates

What are the best pathways to generating and upgrading biochemical intermediates. For example, wet waste to mixed volatile fatty acids in arrested methanogenesis. Or, sugars to butyric acid, or 2,3 butanediol. Tasks include mitigation of scalability roadblocks, measurement of finished fuel properties and quantification of blend limitations, demonstration of life-cycle GHG emissions, and more. What’s the latest?  Jeffrey Linger, Ashutosh Mittal, Jacob Miller, Vanessa Dagle, Xiaokun (Claire) Yang, and Andrew Sutton prepared this overview given at DOE Project Peer Review.