By Jenn Donahue, Founder of JL Donahue Engineering Special to The Digest Being a woman in a male-dominated environment has its challenges. If you are like me, the last thing you want is for your gender to be your defining characteristic and the basis upon which all judgments of your worth are made. In most […]
Want your most perplexing questions of the year answered? If you missed the last DigestConnect of the season, then check out this Q&A slide guide on RD, SAF, RNG, CellEth, DME, PET, BDO, LPG, foods, chems, Therm vs Ferm, IPOs, RFS, LCFS, algae, genetics, waste residues, hydrogen, the future of ethanol, biodiesel, and more.
Algae biofuel AND high value co-products from residuals across algae strains? Are there co‐products that lead to increased LEA value, while maintaining biofuel production, to drive down the overall cost of biofuel? That is what the Consortium is tackling via marine algae strain selection, production of biomass, evaluation of different separation technologies, testing of multiple […]
In Japan, JGC Holdings Corporation, REVO International Inc., Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd. and JGC Japan Corporation, a domestic EPC company of the JGC Group have announced that their joint proposal for “Establishment of a Supply Chain Model for Bio-jet Fuel Production from Domestic Used Cooking Oil” has been selected as a public call project of […]
By Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., CEO of Yield10 Bioscience Special to The Digest During President Biden’s April 22nd climate plan speech at the Virtual Leaders’ Summit on Climate, he announced his goal of cutting 50 percent of U.S. carbon-emissions levels by 2030. This is no simple task, and consumers, investors and businesses alike are aware of […]
How can anaerobic membrane bioreactors increase wet waste’s net energy yield? That’s exactly what University of Illinois scientists are working on to develop improved AnMBR and integrate it into pilot demonstration. Find out their results so far, if they were able to improve wet waste energy balance, reduce effluent nutrients, and more.
There are some great projects and investment opportunities in the marketplace. Andrew Grant from Lee Enterprises Consulting and LEC Executive VP Glenn Farris shared this illuminating slide guide at last week’s DigestConnect asking Why perform Due Diligence? Who should do it? What is the Process? Who should be involved?
Where I come from, rubbish is used as a verb, meaning to denigrate, and there’s been an awful lot of rubbishing going around with respect to aviation. Once, we Flew the Friendly Skies, but these days, the runways are getting surly, and when the UK government issued a report finding, as the BBC reports here, […]
Biological gas-to-liquid conversion offers a means to valorize biogas, improve bioprocess sustainability, and reduce risk of waste and biomass processing. How big is the biogas market? What are the newest biocatalysts and gas fermentation tech to enable gas-to-liquid conversion? Does it improve economics and sustainability?
