By Mike Sticklen, Lee Enterprise Consulting Special to The Digest Throughout my work with Lee Enterprises Consulting, I often get asked about producing renewable and biobased fuels, chemicals and plastics from alternative feedstock sources such as cellulosic biomass or other waste. Many potential investors and policymakers believe that alternative feedstocks will reduce greenhouse gas emissions […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy (announced $7 billion to launch seven Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs) across the nation and accelerate the commercial-scale deployment of low-cost, clean hydrogen—a valuable energy product that can be produced with zero or near-zero carbon emissions and is crucial to meeting the President’s climate and energy security goals. […]
A recent DOE project aims to perform techno-economic analysis (TEA), life cycle analysis (LCA), and water analysis of CO2 utilization (CO2U) technologies to address their costs and energy/environmental sustainability implications and to present economic and environmental value proposition of the technologies. Argonne National Lab legend Michael Wang presented these slides at DOE’s Project Peer Review […]
A recent DOE project aims to quantify resource availability and costs for CO2 utilization (CO2U) in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production to inform industry, technology communities, and policymakers on location-specific economic and societal impacts. It will provide insights to guide R&D efforts to achieve BETO’s decarbonization goals, SAF cost and production targets, while meeting DOE’s […]
A recent DOE project analyzed promising bolt-on compatible CO2 reduction pathways to fuels or products from standalone biorefineries, (2) Published a comprehensive strategic plan for achieving industrial decarbonization goals via CO2 conversion, with inclusion of outyear technical, cost, and carbon intensity targets, and (3) Performing integrated TEA/LCA Analysis of CO2 conversion. At the DOE Project […]
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, but what happens in Nevada occasionally rocks the world. Nevada, Iowa, that is. Sure enough, news arrives from Nevada that Frontline BioEnergy announced has achieved a breakthrough in syngas quality for biomass gasification at its new pilot facility located in Nevada, Iowa. Nevada is, if you will, to the […]
This week on the Digest webinar stage, we looked at The Next Chapter for Bioplastics, our title was the Eco-Friendly Farewell and my guest was Ashvini Shete, Technology Lead – Renewable Chemicals & Materials at Praj Industries, returning to the Digest stage. Bioplastics have taken center stage as the eco-conscious alternative to traditional plastics, offering […]
The problem of renewable molecules is not hard to understand. Molecules that are sustainable and affordable are not available. Those that are sustainable and available are not affordable. If they are available and affordable, they are not sustainable. So: sustainable, affordable, available, pick two out of three, or head to Congress and ask for a […]
By John R. Kirkwood, Christopher B. Berendt, Matthew R. Levy, Jason Deppen, Joshua L. Andrews, Aaron L. Szabo, Brian S. Fennerty, Bryan Michael Allen, Wendy Yan, Virginia M. Speck – Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Special to The Digest The next round of funding for the qualified advanced energy project tax credit — known […]
A recent DOE project aims to support Visolis, a biotech start-up company, to develop hydrogenolysis catalyst that can operate at low-pressures (≤ 5 MPa) and demonstrate conversion of a fermentation-derived C6 intermediate to a high value chemical monomer. The target is accelerated catalyst and process development to convert the bio-derived intermediate to a high value […]
