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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Ensyn

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Ensyn

December 15, 2024 |

This presentation by Dr. Robert Graham, CEO of Ensyn, outlines the company’s Renewable Thermal Processing (RTP) technology and its potential for producing a range of bio-based products, including renewable heating fuels, gasoline, diesel, methanol, ethanol, and green hydrogen. The presentation deck highlights Ensyn’s 40+ years of experience in commercial RTP operations, emphasizing the scalability and […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to ResourceWise and the growing demand for SAF

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to ResourceWise and the growing demand for SAF

December 8, 2024 |

This presentation deck from ResourceWise, a consulting firm specializing in biofuel markets, highlights the growing global demand for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and bio-based diesel. The presentation deck focuses on the increasing adoption of SAF and bio-diesel as a means of decarbonizing the aviation and maritime sectors. Key drivers for this growth include government mandates […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Global BioEnergies

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Global BioEnergies

November 30, 2024 |

This is a promotional presentation for Global Bioenergies, a company developing a bio-based process to produce isobutene, a key ingredient in various high-value products, including cosmetics and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The presentation emphasizes the company’s mission to foster the environmental transition through biosciences by offering a unique and disruptive alternative to petrochemicals. Global Bioenergies […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Synata Bio

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Synata Bio

November 22, 2024 |

Synata Bio is a company that utilizes a proprietary technology to convert waste carbon emissions from industrial sources into valuable products. Their system, based on gas fermentation, transforms waste gases like carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethanol, high-protein feed, and other chemicals. The company emphasizes the environmental benefits of this process, stating that it reduces […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Aequor

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Aequor

November 17, 2024 |

This presentation deck is an overview for Aequor, a company specializing in innovative solutions to address challenges in the burgeoning field of algae biofuels. Aequor’s core product is a natural, non-toxic chemical that overcomes several key obstacles to widespread algae cultivation and biofuel production. The presentation deck emphasizes the company’s unique ability to disperse clumping […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Universal Fuel Technologies

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Universal Fuel Technologies

November 10, 2024 |

This presentation deck from Universal Fuel Technologies (UFT) highlights a technology called Flexiforming, a process that converts various renewable feedstocks into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at a significantly lower cost. Flexiforming utilizes feedstock flexibility by processing a wide range of materials, including ethanol, naphtha, and LPG, into high-octane gasoline and valuable chemicals. The presentation deck […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Maximizing the Value of Cover Crops in the Pacific Northwest

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Maximizing the Value of Cover Crops in the Pacific Northwest

October 26, 2024 |

Cover crops have multiple benefits—soil health is the most important benefit. Can Cover crops be a material feedstock supply center for biofuels? Primary challenges to adoption are uncertainties in use of cover crops across states and includes relative roles of climate, soil type, production practices, and policy.. A team of researchers including Daniel Santosa (PI), […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Single-Pass, Weather Independent Fractionation Technology

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Single-Pass, Weather Independent Fractionation Technology

October 20, 2024 |

An estimated 60% of the available corn stover will be collected in excess of 20% moisture resulting in a lack of ability to produce a reliable feedstock with conventional harvest and storage systems. A team of researchers have designed a project to: overcome issues with the current bale-based state of technology; develop a single-pass corn […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to PEM CO2 Electrolyzer Scale-up

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to PEM CO2 Electrolyzer Scale-up

October 13, 2024 |

Twelve is developing and scaling a platform for a reactor that electrochemically transforms biogenic CO2. The company’s core innovation is a membrane electrode assembly that enables CO2 electrolysis. In this project, the company aims towards mass production of PEM CO2 electrolyzer stacks. Dr. Sadia Kabir of Twelve led the team that created this presentation on […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 and upconversion to ethylene glycol

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 and upconversion to ethylene glycol

October 4, 2024 |

Researchers have targeted the use of catalytic methods to reduce CO2 to single carbon intermediates, then to follow with biological up-conversion to multi-carbon compounds. In this project, Montana State researchers developed electrochemical reactor components with laterally graded pore structure to aid in reaction distribution when the reactor is scaled-up. Project partners integrated these components into […]

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