In Missouri, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced the findings of the Assessment of BQ-9000 Biodiesel Properties for 2024, the eighth in a series of annual reports documenting the quality of biodiesel from U.S. and Canadian producers participating in the industry’s voluntary BQ-9000® accreditation program. The report, developed in partnership with Clean Fuels Alliance […]
In Colorado, based on research initially funded by DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office, NREL granted Crysalis commercial licenses to three novel biological technologies to produce bio-based chemicals and fuels, including: · 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BDO): This technology leverages a modified strain of Zymomonas mobilis to produce 2,3-BDO instead of ethanol, which can be used to produce polymers and butadiene, a […]
In Colorado, NREL researchers seek new understandings of microbial pathways and biophysical processes in microbes and plants, and microbial consortia, to enable scale up of biomass conversion processes from bench to pilot scale. Enabling the production of cost competitive biofuels, biochemicals, and biomaterials depends on the successful characterization and complementary engineering of plants and microbes. […]
This presentation by Kevin Harrison from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory aims to scale down a hydrogen-biomethanation system into a mobile RD&D platform to enable faster research, IP development & validation, and improved gas mass transfer to reduce the cost of RNG via biomethanation. Operational data from commissioning a 700L system showed achievement of 98% […]
In Colorado, barriers that are currently preventing the use of greater percentages of biomass-based diesel fuel blended into petroleum diesel have been identified, along with strategies to overcome them, according to researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The bio-derived diesel fuel in use today is blended into petroleum diesel at a relatively low […]
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 […]
In the UK, Global Construction Review reported that researchers at the US state-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) noted that wind farms off the coast of New York could power green hydrogen production at below $2 a kilogram by 2030. They evaluated four different scenarios to calculate the potential “levelized cost” of a wind-hydrogen system […]
In Colorado, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released the seventh in a series of reports documenting the quality of biodiesel from U.S.- and Canadian-based producers that participate in the BQ-9000 program. The comprehensive report, authored by Robert L. McCormick, details the quality of biodiesel based on monthly data collected throughout the calendar year 2023. The […]
In Colorado, NREL says building biocrude facilities next to existing refineries—instead of closer to biomass sources—can lower GHG emissions by as much as 150% depending on the exact infrastructure design. That is a striking reduction in emissions, and the researchers detail how industry engineers might achieve it with smart designs that let the facilities share […]
In Colorado, according to an NREL TEA summarized in a recent technical report that collecting waste algae from localized, small-scale sources could result in surprisingly attractive, low- to no-cost feedstocks. That could serve as a near-term option for getting an algal industry off the ground without the need for multi-million-dollar dedicated algae farms. Sourcing algae […]
