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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Biofuels Engineering

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Advanced Biofuels Engineering

February 24, 2024 |

Technology Development, Commercial Verification, Project Design, Modular Construction, and Commissioning/Start-up are a few of the themes in this presentation by Roy Viteri, Business Development Manager at RCM /Thermal Kinetics, given at ABLC Next 2023. How to establish performance guarantees, generate OpEx Models, develop CapEx Figures and establish funding are just a few of the outcomes […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Virent

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Virent

February 18, 2024 |

Marathon Petroleum subsidiary Virent developed its BioForming technology to create fuels and chemicals from a wide range of naturally occurring, renewable resources. And now they’ve teamed up with Johnson Matthey to bring to market Virent’s proprietary tech for the production of BioFormate, enabling production of bio-gasoline, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and bio-aromatic chemicals. How the […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Feedstocks and Advanced Agriculture

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Feedstocks and Advanced Agriculture

February 10, 2024 |

In this presentation, we explored the challenges faced by global feedstock producers in shifting towards low carbon fuels, chemicals and materials — new technologies for yield, better soil and carbon practices, new crops and intermediates, and new supply chains and processes to unlock waste residues. The Digest’s Jim Lane presented these slides at ABLC Connect.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to California Ethanol + Power

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to California Ethanol + Power

February 3, 2024 |

The mission of California Ethanol & Power, LLC (“CE+P”) is to produce sustainable renewable low-carbon energy in California from the right renewable resource – sugarcane. CE&P’s experienced team is completing the development of and intends to project finance, construct using proven technologies, own and operate a facility in California’s Imperial Valley. CEO Dave Rubenstein presented […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Clarksville, Arkansas

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Clarksville, Arkansas

January 28, 2024 |

This week in the OPPORTUNITY ZONE, we looked at two double-AA rated districts under the BDOZone initiative, and as part of the proceedings, Steve Houserman led this presentation on the business parks, infrastructure, incentives and above all feedstock that make Clarksville, Arkansas a go-to project destination — especially for those targeting poultry litter and also […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to trends within Sustainable Aviation Fuels

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to trends within Sustainable Aviation Fuels

January 20, 2024 |

Balance your risks and rewards,” advises Topsoe’s Henrik Guldberg Petersen at ABLC Next 2023 in San Francisco, addressing the challenges of feedstock as a very scarce resource, making every carbon atom count for lower CI; the challenges of process operational robustness, and continuous optimization of operations; plus, the opportunities in 100% SAF going through approvals, […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Corn Challenge IV winners

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Corn Challenge IV winners

January 7, 2024 |

Founded in 1957, the National Corn Growers Association represents more than 40,000 dues-paying corn farmers nationwide and the interests of more than 300,000 growers. The goal of the NCGA’s Corn Challenge IV is to turn surplus corn into biobased chemicals. To date $450,000 in prize money has been awarded to 15 winners across three previous […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Agra Energy

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Agra Energy

December 30, 2023 |

AGRA ENERGY is on a mission to introduce cutting-edge technology into the renewable energy industry to transform methane gas waste into clean renewable fuels. Its technology is described as “a major advancement in the proven gas-to-liquids (GTL) conversion process.” CEO Tony Long presented these slides at ABLC Next 2023 in San Francisco.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to India’s global opportunity

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to India’s global opportunity

December 23, 2023 |

“India is on the move, from the incredible traffic pouring through its cities and interconnecting highways, to the new policy formulations emerging and taking shape out of Delhi, to the technology advances flooding out of the southern tech strongholds of Pune and Mumbai,” wrote Digest editor Jim Lane in a recent column, “You can see […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Dimeta

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Dimeta

December 16, 2023 |

Dimeta is accelerating the energy transition in off-grid areas. They are advancing the production and use of renewable and recycled carbon Dimethyl Ether  (“rDME”), a low-carbon sustainable liquid gas, to support the de-fossilization of the LPG Industry at globalscale. rDME we discover is a simple product, easy to handle. Safe, clean, green and versatile. Dimeta […]

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