By Chuck Sorensen, Ph.D., P.E. Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest California leads the nation in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) implementation initiatives. This is driven largely by the State’s aggressive fuel decarbonization goals and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) incentive program. SAF fuel blending components also qualify for US EPA RIN credits. The […]
Dimeta is accelerating the energy transition in off-grid areas. They are advancing the production and use of renewable and recycled carbon Dimethyl Ether “rDME”), a low-carbon sustainable liquid gas, to support the de-fossilization of the LPG Industry at globalscale. rDME we discover is a simple product, easy to handle. Safe, clean, green and versatile. Luca […]
DMC fuses sustainable chemistry with business sense. The technology platform enables a cost-effective, reliable supply of products that the world needs to build economically sound and environmentally-friendly chemical production. The first wave of products demonstrate the potential of our technology platform to produce tangible applications today and they have a promising pipeline of products in […]
Why choose bio-based PEF made from FDCA? It’s sustainable, It’s recyclable, It performs How about an uniquely elegant process to produce FDCA? For example, one single solvent, removing humins in a smart way, and a customized fixed-bed oxidation process. Stoa Enso’s Dirk van Ouden presented these slides at ABLC Next 2022.
In Washington, the Digest announced that the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference, ABLC 2023, will return to the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC, March 22-24, as the industry undertakes more Networking for Net Zero. More than 700 delegates and 100 speakers are expected from more than 400 companies active in advanced bioeconomy development & deployment. “No […]
Agriculture needs to reduce GHG emissions With soil C sequestration, crops can be net negative. But how do we add carbon back to ag soils? What are the biological and genetic levers to make feedstocks net negative? Colorado State University professor John McKay presented these slides at ABLC Next 2022.
Hexas is a biomaterials company focused on the production of regenerative, plant-based raw materials that replace wood and fossil fuel-based materials in multiple applications. Applications for these plant-based materials include: energy, chemicals, packaging, textiles, composites, structural/non-structural products, bioremediation, and more. Hexas has developed a farm-to-fiber platform for the reliable delivery of XanoFiber. They produce this […]
Chemicals, catalysis, additives. Clariant shared how they are working on advancing biofuels globally and here offers extensive detail on their sunliquid technology to decarbonize transportation, now operating at commercial scale in Romania. A fully integrated and carbon negative process, sunliquid is a platform for sustainable biobased products too such as cosmetics, lubricants, plastics and more. […]
From Netherlands comes news that Synova, SABIC Global Technologies and Technip Energies have signed a Joint Development and Cooperation Agreement on November 23, 2022 to collaborate on the development and realization of a commercial plant, which will produce olefins and aromatics from plastic waste. In support of Synova and the collaboration, SABIC’s affiliate SABIC Ventures […]
News has arrived from the gang at Pearl River that Anellotech is offering drum-quantity product samples of aromatics produced from recycled mixed waste plastics. The recycled benzene, toluene and xylenes, known as CIRCULAR BTX, will be available to current and potential commercial partners. The production story The samples are made at Anellotech’s TCat-8 facility — a […]
