There are challenges to sustainable aviation fuel commercialization, but the USDA SAF program is focused on helping with feedstock supply chain systems, conversion and sustainability analysis and commercialization support. Find out about their coordinated agricultural projects on the latest emerging feedstocks involving Gevo, Greenwood, NuSeed, CoverCress, REG, and others.
You may know Fluid Quip Technologies from their work in ethanol, corn wet milling and biochemical industry, but did you know they have a partnership with Green Plains, BlackRock and others? Get a look at their BioCampus, sugar market opportunities, an overview of their clean sugar tech, the latest on their tech and commercial deployment, […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Clariter transforms plastic waste no one wants into high-value, pure industrial products that everybody needs. Since its formation in 2003, […]
Enabling biorefineries to achieve 50% reductions in time to bioprocess scale-up, as compared to the current average of 10 years, is what the U.S. Department of Energy aims to do by establishing a distributed Agile BioFoundry to productionize synthetic biology. Find out how they are reducing time to scale up, what beachheads are (hint: not […]
Bunge, REG and Bayer helped CoverCress raise a total of $22 million including $8 million in Series B in 2021. What does that mean for this low carbon cash cover crop and for growers? What is their commercial track? How are the harvest and oil yields? What about the protein market?
By Mike Newman, Director, Parhelion Underwriting Special to The Digest The Oil industry is under pressure on many fronts in the climate change era and faces an existential threat from alternative, renewable sources of energy – but the industry is also best-positioned to win the Prize in energy’s green future. It’s “code red for humanity” […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s Nichole Fitzgerald, Program Manager, shared this short but sweet slide guide on BETO’s goals for 2021-2030 with large volumes of biomass being critical to achieving those goals, why they are looking at CO2 removal, feedstock technologies program at BETO, and more.
In a companion piece, “Where will we put all the CO2?” we looked at the potential storage solutions from geologic storage to limestone. Here’s the math. According to a chart from the US Department of Energy, we need to bring 10 billion gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That’s enough, by volume, to fill […]
Propane is usually made from oil refining, but it doesn’t have to be! SHV Energy found bacterial species from a marine sediment that are capable of producing propane. Find out how through gene sequencing they identified partial pathways that might be involved in utilising inorganic carbonate for propane synthesis and more.
Kentucky-based RedLeaf Biologics developed a proprietary, non-GMO red sorghum variant that expresses compounds at levels 2000 times higher than native strains, allowing the first ever commercial extraction. Find out how they are working with local farmers to grow, harvest, and process their red sorghum into valuable natural ingredients.
