Author Archive: Jim Lane

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Linde

May 9, 2023 |

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2021 sales of $31 billion (€26 billion). The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications such as hydrogen for clean fuels. Linde also […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Waste Carbon and Soil sequestration

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Waste Carbon and Soil sequestration

May 8, 2023 |

Waste carbon, where is it going? Few say “vent it in the sky” any more, some day stuff it down a cavern. Recently, more and more people talk about storing carbon in the soil, and restoring the soil. The how, and when and why of carbon and soil restoration— that was our topic at REenergize, […]

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Next Step in Alder’s Commercialization Journey: Introducing Pioneer & Full-Time Skid Operations 

Next Step in Alder’s Commercialization Journey: Introducing Pioneer & Full-Time Skid Operations 

May 8, 2023 |

By Matt Sherick, Pilot Plant Engineer & Dr. Derek Vardon, Chief Technology Officer Special to The Digest This week, Alder reached a key milestone in the scale-up of Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) production by commissioning a pilot skid at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Alder’s proprietary technology fractionates fast pyrolysis oil into energy-dense, low-carbon to carbon-negative ARC that can […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to SHV Energy

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to SHV Energy

May 4, 2023 |

SHV Energy is a leading global distributor of off-grid energy, such as LPG, LNG, hydrogen, bioLPG and rDME. The company serves 30 million business and residential customers in 24 countries across 4 continents. The ambition is to offer 100% renewably and sustainably sourced energy by 2040. They are actively innovating, investing & collaborating to develop […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to GTI Energy

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to GTI Energy

May 3, 2023 |

GTI Energy is an organization dedicated to advancing the economy-wide transformation needed to deeply decarbonize energy systems while supplying the energy needed to support rising standards of living and economic growth worldwide. CEO Paula Gant presented these slides at ABLC 2023.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to SPRIN-D and Breakthrough innovation

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to SPRIN-D and Breakthrough innovation

May 2, 2023 |

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 […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Legislation And Regulations About SAF, the Topsoe Perspective

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Legislation And Regulations About SAF, the Topsoe Perspective

May 1, 2023 |

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 […]

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Low Carbon Ethanol: Carbon Intensity Reduction through Advanced Technologies

Low Carbon Ethanol: Carbon Intensity Reduction through Advanced Technologies

May 1, 2023 |

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 […]

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The Battle of the Ethanol Bulge

The Battle of the Ethanol Bulge

April 30, 2023 |

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 […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DMC Bio

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DMC Bio

April 27, 2023 |

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.

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