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Crushing Ethanol’s CO2 footprint: Summit Carbon launches 10MT Carbon Capture & Storage monster; Green Plains is in

Crushing Ethanol’s CO2 footprint: Summit Carbon launches 10MT Carbon Capture & Storage monster; Green Plains is in

February 18, 2021 |

Sometimes, as the song says, you gotta bury your troubles, and when your trouble is the cost of carbon dioxide emission, and you’re in the ethanol business, you were stymied until a few minutes ago, when news crossed the wires that Summit Carbon Solutions is building the largest carbon capture and storage project in the […]

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Ay, there’s the rub! Functional Challenges and Opportunities for Hemp Cannabidiol (CBD) External Analgesic Rubs

Ay, there’s the rub! Functional Challenges and Opportunities for Hemp Cannabidiol (CBD) External Analgesic Rubs

February 17, 2021 |

By Ronald Newman, PhD, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest  Summary The 2020 declared US market for consumer products made from hemp-derived phytocannabinoid extracts is expected to be close to $1billion, with the most significant consumption occurring in the State of California (projected from 2019 data by Statista, Inc). Growth in 2020 was relatively […]

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Separation tech for biobased products: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sulzer Chemtech

Separation tech for biobased products: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sulzer Chemtech

February 17, 2021 |

What are the latest separation technologies for biobased product applications like biofuels, biochemicals, biopolymers? Dr. Singh from Sulzer Chemtech USA shared this illuminating slide guide on their distillation, evaporation, membrane, extraction, crystallization and polymerization technologies, CO2 absorption using their unique mass-transfer equipment, and more.

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Reversing Trump: How Biden’s Priority On Climate Change Can Create Jobs

Reversing Trump: How Biden’s Priority On Climate Change Can Create Jobs

February 16, 2021 |

By Steve Melink, Author of Fusion Capitalism: A Clean Energy Vision For Conservatives, and founder/CEO of Melink Corporation Special to The Digest President Joe Biden’s agenda to combat climate change gained momentum with his signing of several executive actions in just his second week in office. Those came on the heels of other significant environmental […]

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Sustainable Aviation Fuels and the technologies, constraints and burgeoning demand

Sustainable Aviation Fuels and the technologies, constraints and burgeoning demand

February 16, 2021 |

It’s been a rough 2020 for aviation with COVID-19’s impact on travel. Yet, climate goals remain in place, and the pivot from petroleum to renewable fuels continues, the sky is in focus. 2021 has started off with dramatic advances. So who’s making what, where, when, how and who’s buying? In today’s Digest, we’ll look at […]

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Low Carbon Renewable Hydrogen Tech: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to SBI BioEnergy

Low Carbon Renewable Hydrogen Tech: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to SBI BioEnergy

February 16, 2021 |

Started in 1998 as SBI Fine Chemicals, then in 2009 SBI BioEnergy to commercialize renewable liquid fuel tech to just last year pivoting to gölu H2 to commercialize renewable hydrogen tech, check out this illuminating slide guide to find out how they are advancing green low carbon hydrogen for heavy transport and the industrial sector.

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VTT, Neste et al in search for e-fuels breakthrough

VTT, Neste et al in search for e-fuels breakthrough

February 15, 2021 |

In Finland, a partnership led by VTT and Neste aimed at using sustainable electricity and sequestered carbon dioxide to make fuels received €3.3M (about $4 million USD) in funding from Business Finland. Altogether, EUR 6 million (about $7.2 million USD) is invested in the development of the production of fuels in Finland. The e-fuels backstory […]

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Sustainable Aviation Fuel: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Velocys

Sustainable Aviation Fuel: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Velocys

February 15, 2021 |

Going beyond the utilization of difficult to process solid waste feedstocks to produce advanced, sustainable biofuels, Velocys is also now using carbon capture usage and storage of CO2 at their plants that will enable net negative emissions transportation fuels. Find out the limits, the scale-up required to meet demand, the technology, completed and ongoing projects, […]

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Enzyme Tech, Microbes, Bioinnovation: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes

Enzyme Tech, Microbes, Bioinnovation: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes

February 14, 2021 |

“Despite the COVID-19 pandemic” is something positive to see…and Novozymes shares that 2020 was a resilient year for the company and they expect 2021 to be even better with an outlook of 2-6% organic sales growth and solid EBIT margin. Take a peek into their 2020 financials, 2021 outlook and plans, how their products are […]

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Protected: Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Must-See Presentation MultiPack Downloads

Protected: Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Must-See Presentation MultiPack Downloads

February 12, 2021 |

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