Food waste, sewage sludge, animal manure, fats, oils & greases. Odious materials, often available in large quantities, and certainly not in most cases in high demand, and as much as 458 pounds per person per year in total feedstock availability. BETO has developed a multi-pronged strategy to anage these economic, environmental and social liabilities; convert […]
The DOE’s Feedstock Technologies program focuses on challenges and barriers crucial to reaching program goals, including: Feedstock Availability and Cost Production; Feedstock Genetics and Variety Improvement; Sustainable Harvesting; Feedstock Quality; Biomass Storage Systems; Biomass Physical State Alteration; Material Handling and Transportation; Feedstock Supply System; Integration & Infrastructure; and Operational Reliability. BETO technology managers Liz Burrows […]
The Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium is led by DOE as a collaborative effort among researchers from 9 National Labs. The key ideas? 1. Biomass feedstock properties are variable and different from other Commodities. 2. Empirical approaches to address these issues have been unsuccessful. The FCIC is developing first principles-based knowledge and tools to understand and mitigate the […]
Last week on the main stage at the G20 Heads of State meetings in New Delhi, there was a photo call with Indian prime minister Modi, Brazil’s president Lula da Silva, and US President Joe Biden, among many other heads of state, celebrating the foundation of the Global Biofuels Alliance. It was certainly the highest […]
Digest CONNECT returned to the airwaves again this past week and first presenter was ABLC veteran and Ecostrat CEO Jordan Solomon, as well as Trae Miller, executive director, Logan County Economic Development. Together, they explored the exciting news that Logan County has earned an A feedstock rating for wheat straw via the Bioeconomy Opportunity Development […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Enterprises, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals coalition Special to The Daily Digest What Can You Do to Expand Access to Development Capital? A lot. It is neither too late nor too early to begin advocating for federal financing to expedite the development and deployment of projects that will […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Enterprises, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals coalition Special to The Daily Digest There’s good news and bad news about the climate crisis. The good news is that virtually every technology that can mitigate the climate crisis and avert its worst impacts already is under development or being commercialized. […]
By David Peterson, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Daily Digest When an industry faces significant challenges, which all industries will at some time, quite often the responses not only influence short-term achievements but may also influence the trajectory of the industry, and quite possibly the very survival of the industry. The pulp and paper […]
The DOE’s goals are >54% upgradable products from Lignin by 2030, including an emphasis on Deconstruction and depolymerization, conversion of lignin oils to liquid fuels, opportunities for lignin to SAF, and valorization of lignin-derived monomers to high value products Biological Lignin Valorization. BETO technology managers Beau Hoffman and Lisa Guay presented these slides at DOE’s […]
High-value chemicals and materials have the clearest near-term path to market; accordingly, the program is encouraged to increase its focus on ancillary technologies for producing high-value chemicals alongside core technologies that focus on producing high-volume fuels. Yet, catalyst stability remains problematic across the entire portfolio, and challenges presented by deactivation are likely to increase as […]
