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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SunGas Renewables

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SunGas Renewables

December 7, 2025 |

SunGas deploys the proven UGAS® S1000 biomass gasification technology to transform forest residues into low- to negative-carbon fuels. The S1000 efficiently processes biomass to high-purity syngas, achieving greater than 97% overall carbon conversion. The flagship Beaver Lake Renewable Energy project, supported by C2X’s $100MM investment, is key to commercial scaling. Located in Louisiana, it will […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Credit Markets and Climate Innovation

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Credit Markets and Climate Innovation

November 30, 2025 |

NexantECA compellingly argues that carbon credit markets are crucial for financing climate innovation, particularly bridging the “Valley of Death”. The novel finding is that corporate pre-purchase and offtake agreements provide early, non-dilutive capital, reducing technology and investment risk for climate tech start-ups. This mechanism provides revenue certainty, accelerating scale-up. Ambitious new structures, like SAFc Credits, […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Iogen’s Industry Horizons 

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Iogen’s Industry Horizons 

November 23, 2025 |

Iogen provides compelling reflections on achieving commercial success in biofuels, noting that market opportunities, not just technology, drive breakthroughs. The most ambitious vision is the integration of 2G biofuel processes with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). This novel approach promises to triple the climate benefit, allowing every gallon of carbon-negative fuel to erase three gallons […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Rimba.ai 

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Rimba.ai 

November 14, 2025 |

Rimba.ai offers compelling AI automation and analytics to optimize biofuel operations. Their novel solution addresses limited plant visibility and messy manual traceability burdens. An ambitious finding showed AI replicating seven operational spreadsheets with live data, enabling instant, actionable insights. This allows VPs of Operations to build custom dashboards in five minutes. Furthermore, the system automates […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to OzoneBio 

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to OzoneBio 

November 7, 2025 |

OzoneBio presents a highly ambitious green chemistry platform for emission-free adipic acid (BioAA), targeting the $28B Nylon-6,6 market. Their process offers a compelling 96% CO2e reduction compared to traditional methods that emit 60 million tons of GHG annually. They have successfully scaled BioAA production to 0.5–1 ton/year, confirming 99% purity, and confirmed the high performance […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Co-Optimization of Vehicles and Routes (CoVaR)

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Co-Optimization of Vehicles and Routes (CoVaR)

October 26, 2025 |

To Improve Commercial Transportation System Efficiency This completed project, CoVaR, co-optimized vehicle and route efficiency for commercial fleets. Key advances included improving RouteE energy models into fast lookup tables and integrating Single Vehicle Multi-Stop (SVMS) functionality into the Fleet Management System (FMS) and Intelligent Driver Assistance System (IDAS). This powertrain-agnostic technology was validated to achieve […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to A low GHG advanced SI engine that can operate on NG and NG/H2 blends with diesel-equivalent performance for off-road applications

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to A low GHG advanced SI engine that can operate on NG and NG/H2 blends with diesel-equivalent performance for off-road applications

October 19, 2025 |

This project develops an advanced Spark Ignition engine operating on Natural Gas (NG) and NG/Hydrogen blends, targeting 45% BTE (diesel-equivalent). Technical advances include coupled 1D/CFD simulations and a novel in-situ CO2/H2O exhaust gas sensor for fast EGR feedback and H2 ratio estimation. The goal is Stoichiometric operation with near-zero CH4 slip. This results in up […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biodiesel Poisoning of Close-Coupled SCR

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biodiesel Poisoning of Close-Coupled SCR

October 12, 2025 |

This research addresses how CC-SCR systems are vulnerable to metal poisoning (Na, K, Ca, Mg) from high-level biodiesel blends. The core technology is utilizing Spaci-MS (Spatial activity/storage mapping) alongside systematic B100-fueled engine aging to link distributed catalyst degradation to specific metal gradients. Key progress includes acquiring the 125 kW genset, establishing fuel infrastructure plans, and […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Predictive Modeling for 100% SAF Adoption

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Predictive Modeling for 100% SAF Adoption

October 5, 2025 |

This project utilizes a predictive simulation framework employing LES/DNS and successfully ported models to NekRS (GPU-based) for a 10x speedup. Partners include ANL (PI), UIUC, Convergent Science Inc, and multiple National Labs. Accomplishments include validating ARC-M1 flow LES and showing that small fuel property changes significantly impact flame shape and Lean Blow Out (LBO) equivalence […]

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The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Asia Biobunkers Pricing and Market Update

The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Asia Biobunkers Pricing and Market Update

September 28, 2025 |

Singapore has surpassed Rotterdam as Asia’s largest biobunkering hub since 2024, driven by tightening IMO and EU regulations. The IMO Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) mandates 4-17% GHG reduction by 2028, and GHG pricing begins in 2028 ($100/tCO2e for Tier 1 units). Singapore’s biodiesel demand from bio-bunkers is projected to reach ~1.4 million metric tons by […]

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