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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Sugars

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Sugars

November 2, 2023 |

A partnership between Green Plains and Fluid Quip Technologies is a now powerful ag tech alliance having the ability to focus on innovation, value-added opportunities and sustainability. The partnership Green Plains’ scope and scale to create value-added opportunities in key ingredients and especially in providing green sugars for 7-14 billion pounds in added demand from […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet

November 1, 2023 |

Lanzajet says we are at an inflection point for the sustainable aviation industry. Why? How? What’s LanzaJet’s role in it all? How are they driving innovation and accelerating deployment of SAF? What’s the status of their plants and projects? LJ’s Jim Andersen gave this illuminating update on the company’s progress and prospects at ABLC Next […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Honeywell UOP

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Honeywell UOP

October 31, 2023 |

Honeywell UOP creates new technologies that convert oil and natural gas into transportation fuels, energy and petrochemicals. UOP has a century-long record leading technology development for the oil and gas industry UOP technology makes more than 60% of the world’s gasoline, 70% of its polyester, and 90% of biodegradable detergents, and processes more than 40% […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ethanol as a Building Block

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Ethanol as a Building Block

October 30, 2023 |

This week on the Digest webinar stage, we looked at ethanol as a building block and membrane technologies that can unlock that future based on better, faster, cheaper separation. Interest is surging with the rise of demand for alcohol-to-jet technologies targeted by governments, end-users and technologists alike. But there is a far broader set of […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Technoeconomic Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment for Separations

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Technoeconomic Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment for Separations

October 27, 2023 |

The Bioprocessing Separations Consortium is a National Laboratory-led effort, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, that is dedicated to identifying and overcoming separations challenges associated with the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals. This Consortium’s work is helping to reduce bioprocess separations costs, which can account for up to 50-70% […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Volatile Products Recovery 

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Volatile Products Recovery 

October 26, 2023 |

The Bioprocessing Separations Consortium is a National Laboratory-led effort, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, that is dedicated to identifying and overcoming separations challenges associated with the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals. This Consortium’s work is helping to reduce bioprocess separations costs, which can account for up to 50-70% […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Adsorption-based ISPR for bioproducts

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Adsorption-based ISPR for bioproducts

October 25, 2023 |

The Bioprocessing Separations Consortium is a National Laboratory-led effort, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, that is dedicated to identifying and overcoming separations challenges associated with the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals. This Consortium’s work is helping to reduce bioprocess separations costs, which can account for up to 50-70% […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Butanediol separations

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Butanediol separations

October 23, 2023 |

The Bioprocessing Separations Consortium is a National Laboratory-led effort, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, that is dedicated to identifying and overcoming separations challenges associated with the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals. This Consortium’s work is helping to reduce bioprocess separations costs, which can account for up to 50-70% […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Preprocessing

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Preprocessing

October 20, 2023 |

A recent DOE project with the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium aims to develop science-based design and operation principles informed by TEA/LCA that result in predictable, reliable, and scalable performance of preprocessing unit operations.  The investigators aim to develop design principles for various working envelopes of critical material attributes  and critical process parameters for corn stover, forest […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Electrocatalytic CO2 Utilization

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Electrocatalytic CO2 Utilization

October 13, 2023 |

Low-temperature CO2 electrolysis is a promising pathway to produce low carbon intensity fuels and chemicals, offering advantages in scalability, process efficiency, and intermittent operation. Significant risks must be overcome for CO2 electrolysis to help meet 2050 decarbonization goals  A new DOE project aims to work alongside CO2RUe Consortium analysis projects to identify/quantify risks, and performs […]

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