Recently, we continued our new online REenergize series aimed at bringing together projects, technologies, finance and thought-leaders for advanced refining and energy production. Our special guest was Dr. Patrick Rose, former director of biotechnology R&D for the US Navy and now a director at SPRIN-D, looking at breakthrough innovation. “Sprind Is Committed To Building A […]
Case 1, Is Jet Fuel Produced From Soybean Oil? Case 2, Is E-Jet Produced From Fossil CO2 And Green H2 SAF? These are just a couple of the topics tucked into this panoramic survey of paths to SAF, and what’s uphill and downhill from technology to policy. Milica Folic of Topsoe presented these slides at […]
By Shrikant Rathi, Executive Director, Praj Americas Special to The Digest Ethanol worldwide has played a vital role in replacing fossil fuels in ground transportation. The drive for decarbonization has driven consideration of low carbon bioethanol as a feedstock for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and bio-products due to its potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions […]
Lately I have been comparing in my mind the situation of the oil & gas industry today and the facts that faced the German High Command in the late autumn of 1944. Today, it’s a two-front war, EVs on the Eastern Front now winning titanic policy battles of encirclement and annihilation, while the numerically smaller […]
Getting identical performance from lab to commercial scale is tough, but DMC’s platform tech makes it happen with efficient development, scaling, and commercialization of biobased products. DMC’s Kenny Erdoes shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC 2023 in Washington DC recently.
The Billion Ton 23 update is coming. BETO needs a comprehensive biomass resource assessment that is end-use agnostic — for example, MSW and microalgae numbers in BT16 do not represent current BETO Analysis. There is a need to add conventional ag and forestry resources, oilseed and cover crops,macroalgae, CO2 and to align with USDA forest […]
NEXT Renewable Fuels turns recycled organic materials, such as used cooking oil, into an advanced biofuel that works just like petroleum-based diesel, but with as much as 85 percent less greenhouse gas emissions. With development and technology partners, NEXT Renewable Fuels provides the renewable transportation fuels the future demands, and is developing projects on the […]
Renewable projects have a disaggregated value chain, competing and new stakeholders, and a complex technology selection process. Project risk can be reduced, and ROI maximized with accurate project definition, compressed delivery schedules, and expert management. Terence Easton of Triten IAG presented these slides at ABLC 2023.
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going.” John 3:8 Lately there has emerged a worship of cleaner ammonia as a hydrogen carrier and for use in fertilizers and industry, so we might as well revive the […]
The dugout is so old as technology goes, it predates agriculture, fermentation, currency, the wheel, writing, travel by horseback, almost everything except cooking, pottery, and quite a few hunting and skinning tools. Back then, we were tied to the campfire and the kill — then came the dugout, and that was the beginning of shipping, […]
