Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Repurposing Plastics Using Novel Engineered Processes

September 27, 2024 | Jim Lane

The Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment (BOTTLE) consortium is developing new chemical upcycling strategies for today’s plastics and redesigning tomorrow’s plastics to be recyclable-by-design. BOTTLE conducts high-impact research and development to deliver scalable technologies that enable cost-effective recycling, upcycling, and increased energy efficiency for plastics. Under the BOTTLE research […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SAF from Wet Wastes via Hydrothermal Liquefaction

September 20, 2024 | Jim Lane

Wet wastes could provide up to 6 billion gallons of SAF and saves on expensive alternative disposal processes that can reach as high as $4 per gallon of fuel. In this project, researchers propose a method to produce up to 1.5 billion gallons per year of SAF from wet waste (25 percent of fuels are […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Origin Materials, the investment perspective

September 15, 2024 | Jim Lane

A handful of industrial biotechnology companies have the strength and purpose to make it as a public company — others remain private, are acquired, or wind down. What makes companies able to succeed with public investors? What combination of product mix, experienced management, technologies that excel, capital at work, and effective vision make it possible […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains, the investment perspective

September 6, 2024 | Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the BOTTLE Consortium

August 31, 2024 | Jim Lane

Why should DOE work on plastics circularity? For one, ~2-3% of total energy consumption in the US is used to manufacture plastics, resins, and synthetic rubber. Also, plastic production generates ~3.8% of global GHGs. Finally, plastic production uses ~6% of global oil production, representing a large opportunity for further energy and process efficiency improvements. These […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Catalytic Process Intensification of Bio-Renewable Surfactants

August 25, 2024 | Jim Lane

In partnership with Sironix, Los Alamos National Lab researchers aimed to develop performance-advantaged biobased surfactants, noting that bifunctional oleo-furans eliminate the need for metal chelator additives; maintain function in hard and cold water. In this project, researchers aimed to reduce barriers to scaling up Sironix technology by addressing catalytic upgrading and process intensification challenges. Xiaokun […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Process and Integration Scale Up

August 16, 2024 | Jim Lane

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 […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Transformational Sustainability Reporting

July 21, 2024 | Jim Lane

Transformational Sustainability Reporting has three components. First, the ”Science” – organizing and presenting key data that is needed for a variety of stakeholders. Second, the “Art” – preparing quality and timely reports such as Sustainability Reports, ESG Reports, and Feasibility Studies. Finally, there’s the “Voice”, consulting and marketing services to effectively communicate this data to […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Axens technologies

July 5, 2024 | Jim Lane

Axens offers today the largest portfolio for renewable technology deployment, providing efficient, reliable and flexible technologies to convert biomass into high quality and low-carbon alternative products for the transportation sector as well as the chemical industry. Axens’ David Schwalje presented these slides at ABLC 2024.

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

June 21, 2024 | Jim Lane

Claus Nussgruber, the CEO of Utility Global, made his ABLC debut with this look at the hydrogen landscape and in particular the eXEROtechnology platform, with the promise of electrolysis without costly and hard to secure electricity. And the H2Gen system rapidly progressing towards commercialization in 2026.

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