Special to The Digest The current landscape and prospects of the corn ethanol industry was the focus of the 9th edition of TECO Latin America, hosted by Novozymes, the leader in biosolutions and producers of enzymes and yeast for the corn ethanol sector worldwide. TECO Latin America is the leading event in the Latin American […]
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% […]
They Said it at ABLC Henrik Pedersen, Topsoe: “Make every carbon molecule count.” Vicki Thompson, Idaho National Lab, “You can’t just put a corn stalk in your fuel tank.” Christian Librera, UPM: “The US is about incentive and innovation; Europe has become a place of penalty and regulation.” Brain Foody, Iogen, “Scale up is where […]
Ensyn’s current focus is on low-carbon fuels, including low-carbon heating and cooling solutions for institutional and industrial customers and low-carbon feedstock solutions for petroleum refineries for the production of renewable transportation fuels. Ensyn Chairman Robert Graham presented these slides at ABLC Next 2023.
At ABLC Next, news arrived that Ensyn, Linde Corp and LanzaTech have formed an alliance develop and implement the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel other renewable fuels and a range of useful materials from cellulosic biomass including non-food plant material – primarily wood and wood residues. Reminds us of the Three Musketerres — all for […]
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 […]
ABLC is buzzing about BioVeritas, which tipped this morning that it has initiated the second phase of Front-End-Loading (FEL-2) for its first commercial production facility, which is targeted for commissioning in 2026. If you are an engineer of the physical world, probably enough said right there. You’d already know that FEL-2 is the Rubicon, stepping […]
A recent DOE project with the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium analyzed a primary challenge in the design of a biorefinery — — the storage, transport, and reactor feeding of the biomass feedstocks, as material handling/feeding is prone to process upsets such as jamming and clogging, resulting in increased downtime and ultimately higher costs. The project aims […]
A recent DOE project with the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium analyzed the initial distribution of feedstock critical material attributes (CMAs) and strategies to manage this variability. Understanding key sources of biomass variability (e.g., growth conditions, harvest conditions, storage degradation) to identify and quantify CMA distributions that propagate across unit operations to inform cost-effective management of variability. […]
