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Emissions Abatement in Ethanol Production Operations

Emissions Abatement in Ethanol Production Operations

September 3, 2019 |

By Anoosheh Oskouian, President & CEO and Mike Pawlowski, Senior Technical Sales Engineer, Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc. Special to The Digest Most ethanol production facilities at some point must deal with the issue of destroying the byproducts created in processing. Several sources of process gas contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and the use of […]

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India’s Rising Prowess in Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Praj’s Perpective from India

India’s Rising Prowess in Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Praj’s Perpective from India

September 3, 2019 |

Product, processes and partnerships are what it’s all about in India right now with the country’s latest bioenergy policies and growing activity in the bioeconomy. Pramod Chaudhari, Executive Chairman at Praj Industries gave this illuminating presentation at ABLC 2019 in Washington, D.C. on how exactly India is moving forward in the bioeconomy, the country’s perspective […]

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Booker: We will stop the oil refinery waivers, as part of $3 trillion clean energy and infrastructure plan

Booker: We will stop the oil refinery waivers, as part of $3 trillion clean energy and infrastructure plan

September 3, 2019 |

In New Jersey, Senator Cory Booker announced that, if elected as US President, he would “Immediately end the granting of unwarranted RFS small refinery waivers to big oil companies, and substantially increase funding for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).  Booker became the second US presidential candidate to commit to stopping what he termed […]

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The Advanced Bioeconomy Report Q2 2019 Earnings: The Year of Living Endangeredly

The Advanced Bioeconomy Report Q2 2019 Earnings: The Year of Living Endangeredly

September 2, 2019 |

In hand we now have the latest earnings reports from what you might call the 8 Pathfinders – eight publicly traded stocks whose second quarter results offer insights into the health and performance of the advanced bioeconomy as 2019 heads towards its closing crescendos. Our 8 Pathfinders – In the world of global renewable diesel […]

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View from a Former Fed: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Multi-Slide Guide to Policy Nexus Advisors’ Federal Programs

View from a Former Fed: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Multi-Slide Guide to Policy Nexus Advisors’ Federal Programs

September 2, 2019 |

There’s nothing like a former fed to give a unique perspective on federal programs and policy. Paul Argyropoulos, President of Policy Nexus Advisors, gave this illuminating overview of what he thinks the future holds, influencing factors and drivers that can change the whole planes, trains and automobiles biofuels scene in so many ways, some thoughts […]

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Trash to Treasure: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Cielo’s Renewable Diesel

Trash to Treasure: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Cielo’s Renewable Diesel

September 1, 2019 |

Cielo isn’t just the topic of our top story today, it’s a potentially huge transformer in the waste to renewable fuels space. Check out The Digest’s slides to Cielo to see how they are aiming to take some of the billions of tons of waste globally each year and transform it into renewable diesel. Cielo’s […]

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Zero-emission hydrogen beer trucks, algae to generate clean water, cheesy biogas, algae backpacks, bamboo toothbrushes, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 30th

Zero-emission hydrogen beer trucks, algae to generate clean water, cheesy biogas, algae backpacks, bamboo toothbrushes, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of August 30th

August 29, 2019 |

Pumpkin spice everything is already appearing in stores across the U.S. and so is beer for Oktoberfest, but Anheuser-Busch’s beer will be delivered using zero-emission hydrogen beer trucks! Have some cheese with that beer as cheese waste is now being converted to biogas in the UK. And for back to school folks, there are backpacks […]

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Seeing the World from a Different View: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ABLC’s Secret Speaker

Seeing the World from a Different View: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to ABLC’s Secret Speaker

August 29, 2019 |

Retired Vice Admiral Philip Cullom is as impressive on paper as he is in person and offers a unique perspective- a retired Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy, a native of Illinois, having served around the world in nine named operations, a physics degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, an MBA from Harvard, 20 impressive […]

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Trump to offer plan to mitigate waiver impact: plans trip to farm country

Trump to offer plan to mitigate waiver impact: plans trip to farm country

August 28, 2019 |

In Washington, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue told the Illinois Farm Progress Show that President Trump will announce a plan to mitigate the impact of small oil refinery waivers that have been issued in recent weeks. The Secretary did not offer a timeline, according to a Reuters report. Secretary Perdue declined to offer details or a […]

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Better Than Predicted: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA’s Corn Ethanol GHG

Better Than Predicted: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA’s Corn Ethanol GHG

August 28, 2019 |

It’s all about the life cycle, right? That’s what the USDA set out to find out about corn ethanol – just exactly what are the GHG emissions associated with the production of corn-based ethanol in the U.S.? Back in 2010, the RIA LCA concluded that – on an energy equivalent basis – substituting corn ethanol […]

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