By producing valuable products out of CO2, this project will incentivize CCU to realize carbon circular economy opportunities. That’s the promise of this project funded by the BETO Office at the US Department of Energy and led by NREL’s Michael Resch. The key differentiators? Utilization of inexpensive feedstocks to produce products with low carbon intensity, […]
A deep dive into the potentiality of sorghum, as presented recently at ABLC Connect by company president Sean Voigt.
By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, special to The Digest August is usually a pretty sleepy month in Washington and business in general. In baseball parlance, the “dog days of August” is a term to convey the slow grind of a long season. But not this year. Between the drama of politics […]
It’s a legendary petroleum company that began life (we kid you not) at Standard Oil of Iowa and co-founded Saudi Aramco, the world;’s largest company — it’s latest acquisition is all renewable, all domestic, in fact it’s the standard in Iowa, Renewable Energy Group. So, once again, Iowa Standard, we think. Here are the markets, […]
This week on ABLC CONNECT, we looked at the world of Advanced ethanol – markets, players, technologies, policy. 2G ethanol, sugarcane, ethanol as an intermediate, and advanced yield opportunities. We were fortunate to be joined by two leaders in the field, Dave Rubenstein, CEO of California Ethanol+Power, and Blue Biofuels CEO Ben Slager. Here are […]
In recent weeks we’ve seen transformation after transformation in Brazil. Certainly, though the biggest news is yet to come, because we do not know yet who will own the BP Bunge ethanol assets, which are up for sale. We reported last week that “UAE state investor Mubadala Investment Co and Raizen are the final bidders […]
News arrived from Washington that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded $46 million for 22 projects to decarbonize the transportation and power generation sectors. The projects will develop waste conversion and carbon capture technologies to produce fuels from biomass and waste streams, and enable algal systems to capture carbon and turn it into alternative clean […]
Novozymes – from the last syllable you can guess at their dominance in the world od creating disruptive yields through enzyme innovation — but did you know of their increasingly strong technology in yeast? What next for this company as it diversifies? All the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.
The news has been sizzling since last week that VTT is spinning out Olefy technology in October – with a process that can convert most of the world’s waste plastics back to usable virgin grade materials an infinite number of times, and VTT adds, “affordably”, though we are still looking for detail on the Affordably-to-USD […]
