Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Integrated Waste-to-Fuel and Wastewater Treatment

May 2, 2025 | Jim Lane

Discover the synergistic thermo-microbial-electrochemical (T-MEC) approach for converting food waste to jet fuel blendstocks while treating HTL wastewater. This integrated system aims to improve carbon yield and reduce waste processing costs compared to anaerobic digestion. Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) recover hydrogen and treat wastewater, potentially providing hydrogen for biocrude upgrading. The optimized HTL/MEC process shows […]

The Digest’s March 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Haffner Energy

April 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

This ABLC presentation deck highlights Haffner’s Hypergas technology for clean fuels and decarbonization solutions from residual biomass, backed by 31 years of experience. Presented by Nathalie Ionesco, Haffner Energy Inc COO, the guide details their proprietary biomass thermolysis producing syngas, biochar, and biogenic CO2, which can be converted to SAF and other clean fuels. The […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the 2025 Holmberg Address

April 20, 2025 | Jim Lane

This address by Gevo CEO Pat Gruber emphasizes the power of photosynthesis for food and fuels and their commitment to sustainability through a triple bottom line approach. They highlight their experience in integrating agricultural and chemical/fuels worlds, using fermentation for selective synthesis, and their pioneering work in alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel technologies. Gevo’s proprietary ATJ technologies […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Ariel Green

April 12, 2025 | Jim Lane

Ariel Green, a division of Ariel Re/Lloyd’s, offers Technology Performance Insurance (TPI) to de-risk bioeconomy and clean energy projects. Tad Dritz emphasized that bioeconomy projects are risky. TPI provides guarantee backstops, startup repair cover, and long-term output cover, validating technology risk at all project stages. They offer capacity up to USD$200 million per risk.

The Digest 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to ProcessWerx

April 6, 2025 | Jim Lane

ProcessWerx is an engineering and technology firm for the bioeconomy, specializing in innovative process scaling, facility design, and project management. They have twenty years of experience in oils and fats processing, waste feedstock biodiesel, industrial hemp, FOG recovery, and wastewater pretreatment. Their expertise covers research and development, process engineering, fabrication, and regulatory compliance. ProcessWerx highlights […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

March 29, 2025 | Jim Lane

Oberon Fuels is focused on converting waste to renewable natural gas (RNG), methanol, and dimethyl ether (DME). They aim to produce over 200 million gallons per year by 2030. Their process involves anaerobic digestion of waste to biogas, which can then be upgraded to RNG or converted to renewable methanol and DME through catalytic distillation. […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Optimized Feedstock Aggregation and Blending at Scale

March 16, 2025 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, researchers chart the progress of a project focused on identifying cost-effective opportunities to deploy transformational clean energy technologies to treat organic wastes. It involves optimized conversion and biorefinery siting analysis, and characterizes the impacts of key assumptions on feedstock prices. The project uses a geospatially explicit, micro-economic optimized siting analysis, coupling experimental […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Natural Gas Production via Chemical Looping Gasification

March 11, 2025 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, researchers chart the progress of a project focused on a sorbent-enhanced chemical looping gasification (SE-CLG) technology for renewable natural gas production from biomass wastes. The technology integrates biomass gasification, air separation, and syngas conditioning into a single circulating fluidized bed gasifier. The project involves designing multi-functional, mixed oxide-based phase transition sorbents (PTS) […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Mobile Bioreactor Systems for Renewable Natural Gas Production

March 9, 2025 | Jim Lane

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% […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Marine Fuels

March 2, 2025 | Jim Lane

This deck provides a brief overview of the shipping industry, highlighting its significant role in global trade and its substantial contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The presentation deck emphasizes the need for sustainable marine fuels to reduce the industry’s environmental impact, outlining the challenges and potential solutions. It discusses the current generation of marine engines […]

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