Axens Solutions is covering the entire project development cycle and working on things like BioTfuel and Vegan which are renewable diesel and jet fuels, Futurol, a celluloscic ethanol using biomass enzymatic fermentation, Atol made from ethylene using ethanol dehydration, and other feedstocks for fuel. David Schwalje, Business Development Manager at Axens, offered this illuminating overview […]
“They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.” — Jeremiah 12:13 If you want to see climate change, you can go north until you see it, or you can go south until you smell it. As in, welcome to the tropics, dude, we stink! Today we’re going to relate […]
Pacific Ethanol, a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels and high-quality alcohol products, reported a total of 130 million gallons sold and net sales of $346 million, down from $411 million during the second quarter a year ago. While industry ethanol margins decreased at the end of Q2, there are now over 1,700 […]
Amyris just presented about their latest products and proprietary process of engineering organisms (yeast) using renewably-sourced carbon from plants (sugarcane) to make sustainable, custom molecules at the Jefferies 2019 Global Industrials Conference. Get the latest on their fully integrated R&D platform, how they deliver natural products at industrial scale, how their products are delivering the […]
The fuels market and demand for jet fuels is big, but what about the marine sector? After all, over 90% of all goods are shipped via marine vessels fueled with high sulfur (3.5 wt.%) heavy residual fuel oil (HFO). Zia Haq, Siva Sivasubramanian, Mark Shmorhun, Mohan Gupta, all from the U.S. Department of Energy, gave […]
Novozymes is a leader in biological solutions focusing on enzymes and microbes. The company just released their report on the first half of 2019 that showed while there was a second quarter improvement, overall the entire first half of 2019 was disappointing in performance, mostly due to their agriculture and feed, bioenergy and food and […]
In the Digest’s Sometimes We Wonder department, we see a glut in US ethanol markets and ethanol production, but we see no effort to dehydrate ethanol to make fuel ethylene. As the final installment in our look this week at Carbon Re-Use, we’ll look at this alternative for ethanol producers. Since ethylene is primarily used […]
The Digest’s recent webinar covered the Fundamentals of BioProcess Scale-Up, but if you missed it, here’s a chance to glance at the slides and get your questions answered. Is it as complex as it seems? What are the typical challenges? Why scale-up? What is scale-up risk? How do you mitigate it? How to prepare? Who […]
Here’s The Digest’s very own condensed look at 9 bioeconomy companies – Amyris, Aemetis, Codexis, Gevo, Green Plains, Neste, Novozymes, Pacific Ethanol and Renewable Energy Group, in their own words and images. From their latest projects, expansions, accomplishments, financials, to their outlook on future plans, strategic objectives, road maps, aspirations, and more.
SpongeBob SquarePants must be pretty darn excited today with Lidl’s announcement that they will soon sell seaweed-based underpants produced by Florida-based Nanonic. But that’s not all – with politics ramped up in the news comes “Trump straws”, airlines checking out your face with biometric identification so you can get onboard more quickly, BASF’s first renewables-based […]
