New biobased chemical options: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Rennovia
Rennovia, Inc. is a chemical process technology development company focused on the creation of novel processes for the cost-advantaged production of commodity and specialty...
SynTec: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Synthetic Biology for Tailored Enzyme Cocktails
The US Department of Energy is supporting a project led by Novozymes that proposes to deliver a screening platform which can be used to...
Malonic acid from biobased sources: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Lygos’ technical approach
Lygos develops high-efficiency, novel processes to produce renewable chemicals by using its expertise in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Lygos is a spin-off from...
Carbon negative, compression ignition: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels
Oberon Fuels is facilitating the growth of the DME transportation industry by converting biogas and other hydrocarbon rich waste streams to higher valued commodities...
Synthetic Petroleum: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Synpet Technologies
Synpet Technologies is a Turkish-US company founded in 2014, which operates a 15 ton/day demonstration facility in Pasakoy, Turkey. The company developed its Thermal Conversion Process,...
Sustainable Chemistry’s Drivers: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Capricorn Venture Partners Sustainable Chemistry...
Changing expectations, changing demographics in a fragile world. Those are just some of the drivers for sustainable chemistry. Performance or sustainability? Consumers demand both....
From sun to pump: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Direct Photosynthetic Production of...
Arizona State's Wim Vermaas gave this illuminating overview of Direct Photosynthetic Production of Biodiesel by Decoupled Cyanobacteria at the 2017 DOE Project Peer Review sessions.
Waste Makes Haste: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Enerkem
Enerkem’s technology converts non-recyclable municipal solid waste (i.e. garbage) into clean fuels and renewable chemicals.
Enerkem Alberta Biofuels is the world’s first commercial biorefinery to use municipal solid waste to...
From algae blooms to algae oil: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Manta Biofuel
The promise is this: Manta could one day skim algae right off of the Chesapeake Bay and convert it into oil, simultaneously cleaning up...
New route to FDCA: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen’s chemo-enzymatic process
This week, news arrived from MetGen that they have developed a novel chemo-enzymatic process that leads to oxidized forms of 5-HMF. They report that...