In Pennsylvania, Vision RNG, in collaboration with Laurel Ridge Landfill, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Waste Connections, Inc., and Delta Gas, started commercial operations at its new Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) facility located at the Laurel Ridge Landfill in Lily, Kentucky. The innovative new plant converts landfill gas into RNG, which is then injected into Delta […]
In Nebraska, Laurel BioComposite announced it has completed construction of its new 12,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and is ramping up phase one production for Bio-Res PE. The bio-material is a high-performance, cost-effective replacement for traditional petroleum-based resins in a variety of manufacturing processes for plastics. Laurel BioComposite is taking delivery of equipment that includes […]
In Nebraska, Laurel BioComposite plans to break ground on its $17 million commercial scale bio-resin facility this spring, scaling up from the small batches it has been producing from DDGS and sending off to potential customers for testing. The new facility will produce 48 million pounds of bio-resin pellets annually. Funding for the investment came […]
In Nebraska, Laurel BioComposite, who recently opened a 250 pounds per hour pilot plant that produces the company’s bioplastic resins based on ethanol by-product distillers grain, says it has completed its first test batches and have sent them off to seven customers for testing. The pellets can be blending at up to 40% with other […]
In India, a group of engineering students at Government Engineering College Barton Hill have built an electric car using renewable and recycled materials. Dubbed Vandy, the prototype took the nineteen-member Team Pravega ten months to design. It weighs just under 80 kilogram and features a 3D-printed polylactic acid body and underbody made of recycled cloth […]
Huge and positive news arrives from Washington, the US House passed the Inflation Reduction Act and it now crosses to the White House for President Biden’s signature, which is a foregone conclusion. One of the Digesterati described the shift in momentum: “The roof is lifting off the renewable energy industry broadly with the IRA and […]
LanzaTech’s Dr. Laurel Harmon shared this illuminating slide guide at the BETO Peer Review on jet and diesel fuel production from industrial waste gases, commercialization of ethanol-to-jet technology by building a standalone Alcohol-to-Jet pre-commercial demonstration facility to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel, the Freedom Pines Fuels project, and more.
LanzaTech has developed a fully sustainable integrative gas to fuels and chemicals platform that has no impact on food, water security or high biodiversity land use. LanzaTech’s gas fermentation platform disrupts the current highly centralized global energy system by enabling the regional production of low-cost energy from local wastes and residues, including gases as varied […]
In Iowa, we reported late last week that POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels will build an on-site enzyme manufacturing facility in Emmetsburg, pending state and local approvals. It gives us a chance to review the progress with cellulosic biofuels. In that, you might find yourself in one of three camps, in looking at cellulosic’s slow ramp-up: 1. […]
Any way you look at the US 2016 presidential elections or the turmoil within the European Union (e.g Brexit, or Italy’s referendum on membership), you can conclude that we are entering into in anti-federal cycle, and the most innovative public-private policies are likely for some time to proceed out of regions, provinces and states. In […]
