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Why Embracing Failure Is Good for Business

Why Embracing Failure Is Good for Business

July 5, 2021 |

By Cynthia Thyfault, Global BioFuture Solutions, Founder and CEO Special to The Digest Rejection is a bitter pill to swallow. And most of us have had a good dose of it. Whether we didn’t get a job we applied for, weren’t admitted to our top choice college, didn’t make it to the team we tried […]

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New Tech for Recycled Plastic Polymers: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to NexantECA

New Tech for Recycled Plastic Polymers: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to NexantECA

July 5, 2021 |

Today, recycling plastics and advances in depolymerization technologies that have the advantage of creating a recycled monomer with identical properties to the virgin monomer suitable for all applications, including food contacts. NexantECA’s Marisabel Dolan and Johan Vandebeek shared this slide guide at last week’s DigestConnect looking at feedstocks, processing technologies and targets, and more.

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How Viable is Bio-Oil for Marine Transport?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biofuels for Marine Engines

How Viable is Bio-Oil for Marine Transport?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biofuels for Marine Engines

July 4, 2021 |

Determining the technical feasibility of using biofuels, especially bio-oils, for marine engine use, understanding the efficacy of biofuels in marine transport, looking at the impact on fuel handling systems and impact of bio-oils blended with market heavy fuel oils (HFO), is what Oak Ridge National Lab is working on.

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LCA Model for Biofuels: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to GREET

LCA Model for Biofuels: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to GREET

July 1, 2021 |

The Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies Model – aka GREET – can be used to address impacts and conduct life cycle analyses of biofuels and bioproducts. Check out Argonne National Laboratory’s BETO Peer Review presentation on how it works, why it’s important, and more.

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$19 Trillion Captured Carbon Market – How Will We Reward Carbon’s Hunters and Gatherers?

$19 Trillion Captured Carbon Market – How Will We Reward Carbon’s Hunters and Gatherers?

June 30, 2021 |

The IPCC forecast seen below tells the tale of how the next 50 years will play out in climate action. There’s going to be a demand to remove 50 gigatons of carbon emissions through abatement (wind, solar, renewable fuels, energy efficiency, and so forth), and 20 gigatons per year through direct CO2 and methane removal. […]

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50% Energy Savings: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Yilkins

50% Energy Savings: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Yilkins

June 30, 2021 |

Here’s the latest on energy efficient biomass drying and torrefaction equipment which uses 50% less energy than traditional technologies and reduces total supply chain costs (transport, storage, footprint), with a cost per gigajoule equal or better than for white pellets. Yilkins’ tech and equipment also show advantages as a feedstock for gasification processes.

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ABLC2021 – Bridge to Net Zero – to be held October 27-29 in San Francisco

ABLC2021 – Bridge to Net Zero – to be held October 27-29 in San Francisco

June 29, 2021 |

In Florida, The Daily Digest announced that the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference (ABLC 2021) will be held October 27-29, 2021 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, and outlined the agenda, themes and announced a first wave of event speakers. More about ABLC The event website, agenda and conference details including registration and the 2 […]

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Removing Roadblocks to SAF Deployment: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to BioJet Opportunities

Removing Roadblocks to SAF Deployment: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to BioJet Opportunities

June 29, 2021 |

You’ve probably seen the IATA Tech Roadmap and ICAO’s goals for aviation’s CO2 emissions to decrease, but how do we get there? Check out this illuminating slide guide from BETO’s Peer Review where Sandia National Labs shows us the opportunities, the pathways, progress and outcomes for advancing biojet fuel, and more.

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Six Reasons to Support a Blender’s Tax Credit for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Six Reasons to Support a Blender’s Tax Credit for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

June 28, 2021 |

By Alexander Laska, Transportation Policy Advisor of Third Way’s Climate and Energy Program Special to The Digest Aviation is responsible for a growing portion of transportation emissions. As air travel begins to bounce back post-COVID, we need to ensure the industry comes back stronger and cleaner than it was before. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization, one of […]

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Carbon Savings: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Praj’s Efficiency Breakthroughs

Carbon Savings: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Praj’s Efficiency Breakthroughs

June 28, 2021 |

Take a look at reducing carbon intensity of ethanol plants using innovative modernization techniques in this illuminating slide guide from Shrikant Rathi, the general manager (Americas) for Praj. Shrikant shares how to maximize your margins, the latest on evaporative distillation for fuel ethanol production, alcohol vapor recompression, and more.

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